Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Education) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Further to the minister’s answer to my first question talking about the Senate Clerk’s rulings, given the government has previously introduced a bill constitutionally equivalent to mine as advised by the Senate Clerk, will the minister explain why he was so desperate to deny justice to rural and regional students that he took the unprecedented step of writing to the President? Will the government now admit that they are treating regional students unfairly and immediately change the legislation to fix the significant problem being faced by regional students and their— (Time expired)