Senate debates
Thursday, 27 November 2014
Questions without Notice
Higher Education
2:55 pm
Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source
until they are earning over $50,000. And universities have made it clear that there will not be the exorbitant fees claimed by the scare campaigners. In fact, the so-called modelling that the scare campaign uses is typically pure invention. What about the NTEU? What they do is take a figure and then add a mystery 25 per cent surcharge, and then they double it. Why don't you just pluck it from mid-air? It would be just as credible. But fortunately students overwhelmingly realise that undertaking higher education is the best investment in their future and in themselves that they will ever make.
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