Zali Steggall (Warringah, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Minister, for your engagement and that response. I seek further consideration or clarification in this consideration in detail stage around that question of the cap applying to either enrolments or offers, because obviously—with the final amendment relating to suspension if there is a breach—that's the key nexus. If the cap applies to offers as opposed to actual enrolments, that provides a very real limitation; there is a percentage of dropout rate or non-acceptance of offers that they need to take into account.

I appreciate the minister's comments in relation to waiting for advice from the committee. The minister referred to the code, for example. Could greater clarification be provided about what is intended to be addressed in this code? Again, it's an instrument that is not before the parliament, so it's very hard to provide assurance to the sector when it's something we don't have visibility on. Who will contribute to the creation of that code, for example, but also, in relation to the explanatory memorandum, is that an area where the minister is looking at providing greater clarity, on top of whether, through the legislation, the caps apply to actual enrolments rather than simply offers?

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