Gavin Marshall (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Nash says I have got to sit down, because the one thing they do not like to hear over there are the facts being presented to them. From a holistic look at the reforms, they know they are actually good for rural and regional students. They do not want to hear that. They focus on a single issue and say, ‘Oh, we don’t like the look of that. Some people are going to miss out or they’re not going to be able to do it the way they did it before, so we’ll ignore the fact that these reforms vastly increase access for rural and regional students.’

I also take it that the Nationals are criticising us for making available a $20 million Rural Tertiary Hardship Fund to young people from rural and regional areas who need financial help to get a university education.