Lisa Chesters (Bendigo, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Who goes to the Bendigo Latrobe University? Twenty-five per cent of the people at the Bendigo Latrobe University are from low socioeconomic backgrounds. They are Jarrod, they are Kate, they are Jacob. They are people who cannot afford to move away, because of their family budgets. This budget, the funding cuts to universities, the way in which fees will be increased, will hit them hardest.

Finally there is this idea about 60 per cent paying for it. Once you have a university degree, you are a taxpayer and you contribute towards the next generation of taxpayers. So stop with the misleading truths and let us focus on getting— (Time expired)

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