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

I would like to be able to advise of alternatives but unfortunately it is a bit of a blank sheet, because all we have offered by those opposite is cuts—no plan and no reforms. That is the alternative to the government's package: cuts without positive reform. The previous government cut higher education research spending in this country by over $6.6 billion. And at the same time they did not provide universities with the opportunity—