Now why did Senator Cory Bernardi choose this week to ask the Senate to resolve that the Student Services Amenities Fee should only be levied with “the support of the majority of students at each university campus in a mandatory ballot conducted once an academic year”? Even if he made Coalition support for this the price of his voting for the government’s higher education package a student vote on fees would still be defeated by the Labor-Green Opposition, which likes student funding for campus life, and some of the crossbench. Still, you always know what Senator Bernardi thinks.