Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

You can always rely on the Greens political party to try to bring Australians together, can't you? Never very far from a wedge motion, never very far from a wedge political statement, demanding high standards of everyone else but going low themselves—that's what we've come to expect from the Greens political party.

The reality is that international education is a huge Australian asset. It's a big asset for our country economically, socially and diplomatically, and we must protect our international education system to ensure that it remains so. The reality is that this government's actions are about restoring quality and integrity to the international education sector after the shonks in the sector were left untouched for the last decade. The Greens might want to defend a shonky system of international education that was left behind by the former coalition government, but we're cleaning it up. At the same time, we are delivering the housing that Australians are desperate to have and that the Greens keep opposing. (Time expired)