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

You take a very strong view on this. I am disappointed in you personally, Senator Mason, because I know that you worked in an institution and you should be able to persuade your colleagues of just how wrong their attitudes are. Senator Trood is here too. I am sure he would understand just what a preposterous thesis it is that the Liberal Party has been captured by. But, essentially, this is the mentality that drives the attitudes of the Liberal Party that seek to undermine the autonomy of our academic institutions.