Jacinta Collins (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for School Education and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

The bill requires higher education providers, the collectors of the fees, to spend student services and amenities fees only on allowable expenditures, those listed in subsection19-38(4) of the bill. None of the allowable expenditures in this section support the fee being spent on opposing political parties or opposing the election of someone to a Commonwealth, state, territory or local government body. Subsection 19-38(1) prohibits providers from allowing the fee to be used to support political parties or to support the election of a person to a Commonwealth, state or territory parliament or a local government body.