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

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. I notice that the minister cannot tell us anything about what is happening in Tasmania. But I would ask her if she could tell us about why the Australian Veterinary Association has warned that under the government's changes veterinarian degrees could cost a quarter of a million dollars and take up to 45 years to pay off? How can the minister still be arguing that regional universities, like James Cook or Charles Sturt, could reduce their fees, when Universities Australia has found that veterinarian science fees will need to go up by at least 37 per cent?