Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

He writes 'after all those years when the sector was controlled by volume and price, we should be celebrating the chance to do it differently'. So the uni sector gets it, and this government gets it: more competition is good for students, more competition is good for diversity and will allow our universities to compete.

But I am also asked by the member for Macarthur: should competition be an end in itself? Most people would agree that while competition is good, it can be taken too far. Some people call the member for Grayndler and the member for Maribyrnong 'the people's choice versus the factions' choice'; but at the moment they are being a bit more like the mongoose and the cobra. If you read this morning's Australian you will see what Troy Bramston has written there; he talks about their politics being those of absolute disunity. Disunity is death in Australian politics.

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