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

Minister, thank you but this is the problem: one could drive a truck through that list—and I am not a particularly good lawyer. Let me point to this example: take proposed subsection (4)(f) about 'promoting the health or welfare of students'. Now, taking promoting the welfare of students, what is to stop a student group saying, 'We have to support the carbon tax because that promotes the welfare of students'? I am sure you follow the argument, Minister, and that is the problem here: this list is so broad and so crudely drafted that it really does not limit student expenditure at all.