We have a deferred vote on Senator Faruqi's second reading amendment. We'll deal with that now. The question is that the second reading amendment moved by Senator Faruqi on sheet No. 4109 be agreed to.

I move the second reading amendment on sheet 4124:

At the end of the motion, add ", but the Senate calls on the Government to:

(a) urgently review the Job-ready Graduates Package funding and student contribution settings, including their adequacy, equity, simplicity and effects on student choice and participation; and

(b) improve the definition of an eligible equity student and the operation of   .needs-based funding so that:

(i) disadvantage may be identified using appropriate individual, household and area-based measures, rather than area-based measures alone,

(ii) funding reaches students experiencing barriers to access, participation, retention or completion,

(iii) in addition to Indigenous and low socioeconomic status students, consideration is given to first-in-family students, students from   .non-English speaking backgrounds, students from regional, rural and remote areas, students with disability and other under-represented cohorts,

(iv) detailed eligibility criteria are developed following advice from the Australian Tertiary Education Commission and public consultation, and

(v) those criteria are prescribed by disallowable legislative instrument".

The question is that the second reading amendment on sheet 4124 moved by Senator David Pocock be agreed to.

I move the second reading amendment on sheet 4100:

At the end of the motion, add ", but the Senate:

(a) notes:

(i) the additional cost burden on rural and regional students going to university and the need for additional funding to ensure that they have the same opportunities for higher education as students in metropolitan areas,

(ii) that additional funding and payments should be provided based on need and not on immutable characteristics such as race or gender,

(iii) that funding should be provided directly to students to address their additional costs, not to the universities, many of which already suffer from bloated administrations,

(iv) that the centralisation of university placements in the hands of the bureaucrats of the Australian Tertiary Education Commission is   .anti-competitive, will result in a lower standard of education and will create an environment that promotes political favours and lobbying to be awarded more favourable placements, and

(v) that this bill continues the Labor Government's aggressive expansion of ministerial powers; and

(b) calls on the Government to:

(i) provide additional, needs-based funding directly to students to address their own education needs, and

(ii) stop centralising control of Australian institutions in the hands of ministers and government bureaucrats".

The question is that the second reading amendment moved by Senator Whitten on sheet 4100 be agreed to.

We will now move to two-minute statements.