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

There is a number of other very serious impacts. Not only will there be fewer opportunities for students but there will be less scholarship support and, frankly, ultimately lower quality education. Amongst other impacts, 130,000 students will continue to pay loan fees of 20 and 25 per cent that other students do not have to pay, and those opposite do not care. Our universities are going to face a status quo situation which the universities say is unstable and uncertain as it was under the previous government with Labor's $6.6 billion of cuts, and those opposite do not care. Our $15-billion international education industry which has a dependency of about 130,000 jobs will end up at risk. Our research will also suffer. There will be no funds for the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy and some 1,500 people will lose their jobs. The no more future fellowships— (Time expired)