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

The government does not support this amendment or these amendments either. I draw Senator Hanson's attention to the answer I gave to Senator Leyonhjelm earlier. In fact, the government is considering the affordability of the student loans program overall. We discussed this on page 19 of our higher education discussion paper released earlier this year. Such matters are being considered in the context of higher education reforms that are not before the Senate at present and certainly not in the context or the specifics with which you have proposed these amendments.