Senate debates

Tuesday, 26 November 2024

Bills

Universities Accord (Student Support and Other Measures) Bill 2024; In Committee

7:37 pm

Photo of Sarah HendersonSarah Henderson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

Are you able to provide the Senate with any more information in relation to the 68,000—how that was calculated?—because I don't believe this information has been made public before, as well as any other information you can provide. Also, could you indicate how these students will be means tested? Will they be required to hand over their income statements? Will they be required to hand over Centrelink statements or any other private information? And how will that occur? Will the universities be given the responsibility of asking for that information in order to means test them? I mean, quite genuinely, this is a very unusual scheme, where the government is asking third-party institutions to means test students under circumstances where that could give rise to all sorts of quite significant privacy issues. So, could you explain how people's personal information is going to be handled?

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