Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister Assisting the Leader for Science) Share this | Hansard source

My question without notice is to the Minister representing the Minister for Education, Senator Payne. Is the minister aware that regional universities, including Newcastle university's vice-chancellor, Professor Caroline McMillen, have said that the proposed changes to university funding will benefit elite universities at the expense of institutions that attract students from poor, disadvantaged and regional backgrounds? Can the minister inform the Senate if any vice-chancellor of a regional university supports the government's extreme higher education policies?