• Australian Greens Senator for NSW
• Became a Senator on 18 August 2018 — unknown
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Bills: Universities Accord (Student Support and Other Measures) Bill 2024; In Committee (26 Nov 2024)

“I move Greens amendment on Sheet 3185: At the end of the motion, add "and the Senate calls on the Government to immediately legislate its pledges to raise the minimum repayment threshold for all student debt and introduce a marginal repayment system".”

Bills: Universities Accord (Student Support and Other Measures) Bill 2024; In Committee (26 Nov 2024)

“I do appreciate what Senator Lambie has said, because all the two major parties are doing is calling each other 'deceptive' while the students are suffering every single day. Stop playing these games. Labor, you are in government. You can do this. You know the Universities Accord process—and it was a good process—said that this change needed to be done urgently. What is stopping...”

Bills: Universities Accord (Student Support and Other Measures) Bill 2024; In Committee (26 Nov 2024)

“The Greens will be supporting Senator Pocock's amendments to change the time of indexation, to start off with. We have to be clear that student debt, firstly, cannot be fixed, because student debt really shouldn't exist. Similarly, indexation cannot be fixed, because indexation shouldn't exist either. Nevertheless, there are ways in which the current system can be made fairer, and Senator...”

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