David Feeney (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

A great deal of what you said was obviously rebuttal and I do not have much more to add to what I said in my earlier remarks, but let me say at least a couple of things. Firstly, the minister is aware that the joint committee on education which operates under SCOTESE—I am advised that is an acronym standing for Standing Council on Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment, which is education ministers—is considering the issues described by you. Further, Senator Xenophon, the minister is willing to give an undertaking that he will review this issue again and report back to the Senate. So while the government remains of the view—