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

I think that imputation is completely incorrect. It's not about privileging any private university entity. This is about public entities. It's about public universities being covered because they are state and territory entities established by law, because the ANU is a Commonwealth university established under Commonwealth law and therefore also a public university. Given that the bill is about addressing foreign engagement by state and territory governments and government entities and that private universities are not government entities, they are not within the scope of the bill.