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

As my colleague said: do as John Howard did with the GST. Run it by your electorate. Try and convince them of the arguments that you are putting to this House and let us see if they endorse the package. I profoundly believe that they will not, because it is fundamentally unfair at its heart. It makes university access based on your wallet not on your capacity, and that is never going to be acceptable.

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