Senate debates

Thursday, 21 November 2024

Questions without Notice

Tertiary Education

3:05 pm

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

The Albanese government's free TAFE and student debt relief policies are helping Australians with cost-of-living pressures. But, just as he opposed all of our cost-of-living relief, Mr Dutton has opposed this relief too. That's because what we learnt this week is that Mr Dutton and the coalition believe that only those who pay for something appreciate the value of it. I'll tell you who else appreciates the value of what they pay for: those shonky migration and education agents who sank Labor's student caps. They know the value of that, and that's why they were prepared to pay the Liberal Party for it. What else is Mr Dutton willing to recklessly change his position on if the price is right? Will a big tech fundraiser change his position on social media age limits? We know Senator Antic wants that. Will a Stuart Robert fundraiser change his position on government IT procurement? Oh, hang on—that already happened.

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