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

He said, I think very sensibly:

… the 2014 Higher Education Budget reforms are necessary. They are logical, coherent, sustainable, equitable and inevitable.

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My guess is that the detractors of micro-economic reform in Australia's higher education industry will find themselves on the wrong side of history in resisting efficiency improvement and innovation, as they will be in opposing the redistributive measures of the package and, curiously, supporting socially regressive subsidies from general taxpayers to more advantaged segments of the community.

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