Mehreen Faruqi (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The Greens will not be supporting this amendment. The student services and amenities fees should be exactly that, and the majority of this revenue should be allocated to student led organisations who are best placed to direct and control their funding as they see fit. Universities must be run by and for their staff and students. Democratically elected student organisations are crucial to this and must be appropriately resourced to respond to student's needs. Any attempts to further erode the power of staff and students must be resisted, and that's why the Greens will not support this amendment. Staff and students should be the ones running universities not a bunch of hand-picked executives that are walking away with hefty pay packets while corporatising universities.