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

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Only two months ago the then Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research, Mr Bowen, said that 'universities are entitled to assume they will be at grave risk under a Liberal government' and that 'the sector is entitled to conclude that university funding will be a prime target' for the coalition. Will the minister now apologise to Australian universities for running a cynical scare campaign in preparation for its own recent $2.3 billion cuts?