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

This bill is about foreign relations and foreign policy. This bill is not about foreign interference. Foreign interference is covered by the University Foreign Interference Taskforce, of which those universities are members, along with a range of other bodies, and those issues are addressed in that context. This bill, which I think is—to use a word you use—unremarkable, is related to government entities and state, territory and local governments. Private universities, self-evidently, are not government entities and are not state, territory or local governments.