Russell Broadbent (McMillan, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I'd be one of the very few people in the parliament now who are not tertiary educated, and I don't have the experience of the member for Brand, who has had 10 years working in the sector. But I do have Federation University just near my electorate, which is very important to us. It's especially important because, many years ago, under the Howard government, we introduced the school of medicine to what was then Monash University at Churchill.

As a regional representative I ended up fighting not only for my constituents and fighting to keep the school of medicine there, but fighting the university as well. Monash has disregarded the Churchill campus and handed it over to Federation University. All right; they want to get out of rural areas. But now they're going to put in an administrative approach that will have the effect of closing down the school of medicine—

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