If people have complaints they should take them direct to the Universities. I say to those who are making the complaints, if they prove to be wrong you owe the system a great apology. And I know that Mr Beazley s Parliamentary Secretary, Kim Carr is running around with all sorts of complaints. If those complaints are not validated then he s got no role in education in the Opposition as far as I m concerned. If people have got complaints, and I have seen no evidence to support them, but if they have they should take them to the University.
Universities are autonomous organisations.
We don t control the universities, we fund them. Yes we do, but State Governments, they are established under State Government charter so their legal authority derives from State Governments and they operate autonomously so I would be appalled if there were preference being given . We have a very good University system, it s better than most countries. We should stop knocking the way we do things in this country. For education generally.