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

I table a ministerial statement on the higher education revolution, and I seek leave to move a motion in relation to the statement.

Leave granted.

I move:

That the Senate take note of the statement.

It is impossible to overstate how important universities are to our innovation system. They are engines of invention and discovery. They create new knowledge and they produce people with the skills to apply that knowledge in the real world. They are places where new industries, products—