Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Payman. These are obviously issues that the government considered in framing the policy that we have decided to take to the next election, with every single member of this caucus still continuing to support those policies and continuing to deliver for students rather than simply asking questions about it.

The reality is that making changes of this kind do take time. They take legislative changes. They have impacts on the HECS and the HELP schemes more broadly, and it does take time to have that delivered. But what I can say is that I know that every single member who remains in the Labor caucus has the opportunity to put these views forward, and it is the collective action of this caucus that led our Prime Minister, Mr Albanese, to make the commitment for the greatest reduction in HELP debts that we have seen from any government in decades in Australia.

We understand that university students and TAFE graduates are doing it tough right now, and that's why we will use the power of government to deliver cheaper courses for those people. (Time expired)