Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Agriculture. Minister, the chair of the Regional Universities Network says the Abbott government's university changes:

… will have a disproportionate impact on the regional and disadvantaged students who study at RUN universities, as well as the communities from which they come.

Further, he said the changes were:

… likely to exacerbate the divide between the city and rural and regional Australia …

Minister, how can you stand by and watch agriculture and veterinary science students and their communities—including Armidale—pay the price for the Americanisation of our universities?

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