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

Senator Stott Despoja, I am afraid you seem to be descending into rhetoric now. The government has made its policy as clear as can be. It has also, as I have advised you, made clear that the mechanism of that policy will be not vaporous statements in parliament but specific clauses of funding agreements. As I pointed out to you before, by subsection 30.25(4) of the Higher Education Support Act, those funding agreements have to be tabled in the parliament. In relation to the definition of ‘substantial’, I am advised that that is not a defined term in the legislation.