Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

One thing that is required in a process like this is for party spokespersons to have their mind around the matter. What Senator Nash has just clearly shown is that she does not know what is going on. She has no idea. It is very clear that the Greens have negotiated a package with the government which would cover those people who took their gap year in good faith believing that they would get the subsidies required to enable them to pursue their tertiary education. Those subsidies have been restored. What the National Party and the coalition are doing, through this process tonight, is putting that at risk so that students will have nothing—students both from the country and from the city.