Jacqui Lambie (Tasmania, Jacqui Lambie Network) Share this | Hansard source

I have to remind the government side over here that, when these guys on the coalition side put up the cost of those arts degrees, you went off like pork chops. As a matter of fact, I remember sitting here and hearing you say, 'Yes. We're going to take them back to where they were.' Quite frankly, you've done nothing. Maybe they're not doing the Job-ready Graduates stuff because they need to go into those arts programs to work out exactly what they want to do in their lives. So maybe you should lower them back down, instead of carrying on like pork chops, like you did before the last election, when this other side did it. You've had 2½ years to change that and reduce those arts degrees back to where they used to be. Then those kids can go and do those arts degrees at that age and work out exactly what they want to study. At least it would give them a touch of everything, and then they can determine where they want to go.

Quite frankly, carrying on like pork chops—and, God, you guys carried on! They were fried, those chops. Fair dinkum! Seriously! Goodness me!

Reduce those arts degrees back down, because, quite frankly, I think that's what determines where these kids want to go in life. You may want to relook at that and go back to that instead of carrying on and doing nothing about it when you are in government.