Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The committee is considering the Universities Accord (Student Support and Other Measures) Bill 2024. Yesterday evening, divisions were called on various amendments. The votes on those amendments will now be held, starting with the amendments moved by Senator Faruqi on sheet 2949.

The question is that the Greens amendments on sheet 2949 be agreed to.

Australian Greens' circulated amendments—

(1) Clause 2, page 2 (table item 2), omit "Part 1".

(2) Clause 2, page 2 (table items 3 to 6), omit the table items.

(3) Schedule 1, page 4 (line 1) to page 28 (line 10), omit the Schedule, substitute:

Schedule 1 — Ending HELP indexation

Higher Education Support Act 2003

1 Subsection 140-5(1)

Repeal the subsection (not including the method statement), substitute:

(1) A person's former accumulated HELP debt, in relation to the person's *accumulated HELP debt for a financial year, is the amount worked out using the following method statement:

2 Sections 140-10 and 140-20

Repeal the sections.

3 Subclause 1(1) of Schedule 1 (definition of HELP debt indexation factor )

Repeal the definition.

4 Application of amendments

The amendments of the Higher Education Support Act 2003 made by this Schedule apply in relation to a person's *accumulated HELP debt for a financial year that begins on or after 1 July 2025.

Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It being 1.30 pm, we will now move to statements by senators.