Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Wong. I don't have that detail with me today but, as per the indications I made in my summing-up speech, there have been discussions with universities through this process, including a meeting Minister Tehan and I had with universities in the break between sitting weeks, and the consultations that the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade have had regularly. I have dates of those consultations, I think, in my notes here, but they go through the period of time since the bill was introduced. I have to confirm and advise, Chair, that the inclusion of universities in the bill, in one way or another, is a matter that was always in contemplation.