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

The government will not be supporting this. I understood that we were recommitting only Senator Xenophon’s amendments, so this is a further breach of the undertakings. This morning, Senator Cormann, you were provided with a series of documents by the minister’s office for out-of-session consideration providing guidance to the state and territories designated authorities on a nationally consistent approach implementing the re-registration measures introduced through the education services for overseas students amendment bill and related forms. Now, perhaps they have not reached your hands, but it is my information that that information was provided to you this morning.

Senator, the whole issue here is, as I indicated to you yesterday—