Stanford EricaERICA STANFORD (National—East Coast Bays): Thank you Madam Chairperson Tolley. On the whole this is a good piece of legislation introduced by the National Government. I'd like to take a look at Part 1 of the bill in particular—similar to Jan Tinetti—at clause 5(2) inserting new subsections (2A) and (2B) into section 4 relating to the international student conduct.As an electorate MP for East Coast Bays I have many schools in my electorate that have international fee-paying students. In fact almost every single school in my electorate has these students including Long Bay College and my old school Rangitoto College with students from all over the world offering international perspectives an introduction to new cultures and some long-lasting international friendships. The income provided by these students to our schools is not insignificant and provides opportunities for these schools that they would not otherwise have had. But with these opportunities comes responsibility. Our schools know they have a responsibility to provide for the welfare the well-being and the safety of these students for this and for the reputation of the export industry. A collapse in numbers of these fee-paying students in our schools would have a very negative impact. As such ensuring the safety of those international students and protecting our international reputation is of vital importance.Any increase in an ability to further look after the well-being of international students would be welcomed by our schools. This bill plays a really important part in doing this. It responds to a recent High Court ruling that a school had no rights to manage their international students' misconduct outside of the school. This ruling found that schools could not stand down suspend or exclude international students for misconduct outside the school even though their enrolment contract allowed for it. This has massive consequences for international students' safety and their well-being. So schools are currently unable to effectively manage that risky or potentially harmful behaviour. This bill will ensure that schools manage international student misconduct outside the school so they can uphold their contractual duty to ensure international students' health safety and well-being and therefore protect the reputation of our export education industry.We believe that enabling the State schools and State integrated schools to manage international student misconduct outside of the school is a change that schools will absolutely welcome. I understand that the Regulations Review Committee raised concerns around the fact that international students would be excluded from sections 13 to 18AA of the Education Act which are those provisions around exclusions and disciplinary actions. I understand I wasn't part of the Education and Science Committee or the Education and Workforce Committee but I read their report and I understand that they were satisfied that the disciplinary action against international students being governed solely by the code of practice would be a cleaner and more effective way of managing that rather than legislation which has been specifically designed primarily to protect domestic students' access to schools.We've been a constructive Opposition. While there are some things in this bill that we're not happy with overall we've taken a constructive approach. We worked as I understand it in the select committee to ensure that these international students their conduct outside of schools is able to be regulated to ensure their welfare and their safety.I understand there was agreement between the committee members as to the changes made in the Education and Workforce Committee to these clauses. I note there were some changes made at the select committee that were agreed upon unanimously and I know that the schools—certainly in my electorate—will be very happy with these changes.The only question that I would have for the Minister is around these international students being excluded from sections 13 to 18AA. Because I wasn't part of the select committee I've read the report but if the Minister was able to provide some further clarifications around why they aren't able to be included in that part of the legislation that would be helpful just for my benefit. There wasn't a huge amount of notes in the select committee report that I read around that for my own knowledge but if you could address that that would be ka pai. Thank you Madam Chair.