Brett Mason (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Universities and Research) Share this | Hansard source

It is okay, Madam Acting Deputy President; no-one in the Senate has a louder voice than I do, as you know. Who knows whether a 12-year-old boy from Cunnamulla will be the fellow who in 20 years time discovers a cure for cancer or whether a young girl from Broome will be the new Manning Clark or, better still, Geoffrey Blainey. The argument from the coalition is simply this: this parliament should give our rural kids that chance.