Sharon Bird (Cunningham, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Vocational Education) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to speak to the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Amendment Bill 2014, which seeks to change the operation of TEQSA, Australia's national higher education regulator. I move:

That all the words after 'That' be omitted with a view to substituting the following words:

whilst not declining to give the bill a second reading the House notes that the:

(1) Government has failed to offer an adequate response to the Review of Higher Education Regulation;

(2) bill does not adequately demonstrate how the international reputation of the tertiary education sector will be protected; and

(3) Government has failed to provide appropriate time for consultation and consideration of the bill.

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