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

In case Senator Simms was missing it, the support is still there. It is there in a different format; it is there in the format of an income-contingent loan that is available to students. The support is also there through the hundreds of millions of dollars in the Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program that provides support for universities to be able to enrolled people from different backgrounds. I am very pleased that the latest enrolment data demonstrates that we have more people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds in universities than ever before and that that has been growing at a faster rate than the overall student population.