Penny Wright (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Education regarding the High Court judgement in Williams v the Commonwealth (No. 2), which held that the National School Chaplaincy and Student Welfare Program to be invalid. The Commonwealth has chosen to waive the debt on program payments made to date including $37 million paid in advance to cover the next six months of the program for work not yet done. Why will the government not recover funds that have not yet been expended thereby effectively continuing to fund an illegal program?