Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) Share this | Hansard source

The Liberal Party had a view, as I have indicated before, Senator Mason, that you had to make up for your defeats in your youth at the hands of some obscure student politicians and you have had to impose these penalties on universities as a means by which you can restore some dignity. Senator Abetz still lives through the days of his glorious youth. The Liberal Party essentially takes the view that universities are to be treated as ideologically hostile institutions.