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

The government is determined to ensure that rural and regional students do get a fair go when they are attending universities. In the last five years of the coalition government, the number of students from the bush going to universities fell. But this is worse than just incompetence. It is a betrayal by the National Party, and that perfidy continues. The government’s reforms will increase support for rural and regional students. But the opposition says, no, it would rather have a cheap headline. Tony Abbott, of course he says that he loves to have a fight, and apparently that fighting includes fighting Australian families. It is time for the opposition to abandon its campaign of obstructionism, its campaign of sabotage, and start thinking about Australia’s future. (Time expired)