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

or what presents itself as a coalition, Senator Sherry, has taken the unprecedented step of refusing to adopt a committee report has meant that 150,000 young Australians have been left in limbo. Families around the country who have been dreaming of achieving a better life for their children through education will be denied that dream. Professor Alan Robson from the University of Western Australia says:

The Group of Eight supports these changes because they target finite resources to the students most in need …

Professor Ross Milbourne from the University of Technology Sydney says the absence of reform:

… is not only bad for the education system in Australia, but it’s bad social policy and is very bad long term economic policy.

Professor Paul Johnson from La Trobe University reminds us that these reforms ‘will make a fundamental difference to’— (Time expired)