George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Minister for the Arts and Sport) Share this | Hansard source

and it is advice you would do well to heed yourself, Senator Carr:

Let’s give credit where credit’s due, this assures the capital works programs of the university sector are forever, and that’s a spectacular outcome.

That is the view on the Higher Education Endowment Fund of the university sector itself: ‘a spectacular outcome’.

In addition to the Higher Education Endowment Fund, as part of the budget, the Treasurer released the Realising Our Potential package of $3.5 million in additional funding over the next four years. The package builds on the Our Universities: Backing Australia’s Future package, which provided an additional $11 billion for the sector over 10 years to 2004. (Time expired)