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

I thank the member for Hotham for her question because it gives me the opportunity to explain to her, as a new member to the House, that the government are not increasing fees at universities and we are keeping all of our promises. We said we would not reintroduce the cap. In fact, under the government's microeconomic reform, we are removing the cap on the sub-bachelor places. So all of the diplomas and the associate degrees that are used by many, many first generation university goers and low socioeconomic status students to get into the undergraduate pathway, we are lifting the cap on those sub-bachelor courses to expand the demand driven system. This is something I would have thought the member for Hotham would support, but in fact she is shaking her head.

Ms O'Neil interjecting—

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