Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Okay, well, that's discretionary. Other universities will be required to comply. My recollection is—and I'm sure the minister will correct me if I'm wrong—that all universities, including private universities, are part of the foreign interference task force process. Why was that decision made to exclude private universities from the remit of this bill? That's a policy question. Secondly, you haven't come back to me on this: can you just confirm that there is no constitutional reason that private universities should be excluded?