Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

We know Australians are under the pump at the moment, and that's why the Albanese Labor government are delivering cost-of-living relief. It's why Labor is making TAFE courses free, opposed by the opposition, and reducing the burden on students, opposed by the opposition. An arrogant Mr Dutton and his team call this wasteful spending and say TAFE students don't value their free courses. They arrogantly think they can say one thing and do another. It wasn't very long ago that Mr Dutton called international students 'the modern version of boat arrivals', and, as recently as two months ago, Deputy Liberal Leader Sussan Ley and Senator Henderson—there she is again—said:

The coalition has maintained the importance of a cap on international students …

But all it took was one event with Liberal Party donors, including shonky education agents, to see their principles collapse, recklessly stopping this government from capping international student numbers to assist with migration levels while also cracking down on the shonky agents who, it turns out, are Liberal Party donors.