Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Carr has been in this place a long time and a lot longer than I have, and I would have hoped that by now he was nimble enough to change his second supplementary question based on the answer to the first. But I will again repeat: we are not considering any tax.

I would also note, because I am assuming that Senators Carr's questions are based on Professor Chapman's models that have been floated in the media today, that Senator Carr is grossly misrepresenting what Professor Chapman is proposing. They are not part of the government's reforms at present, but it is a misrepresentation of what Professor Chapman has proposed.

I would invite Senator Carr, though, to step away from the scare campaign, to step away from trying to scare people away from thinking they could afford higher education, because our reforms—