Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

I might ask someone for a copy of yesterday's Hansard so I can again provide those supporting comments from those other vice-chancellors—and the number of universities around the country—to Senator Carr, because he clearly has not had a look at that.

What is actually the problem here is not the government's proposals but those opposite's complete incapacity to think outside the square for even a moment in terms of the operation of Australia's higher education sector and the capacity we now have to make it a world-leading, competitive higher education sector. That does not include scaremongering; it does not include the sorts of fanciful statements that those opposite are grasping at straws to use in this debate. It includes a sensible discussion about the opportunities that are going to be available to what will be 80,000 more students in this country by 2018. Those opposite— (Time expired)