The government’s higher education funding package is scheduled for the House of Reps today but when the tumult and the shouting ends, there will be more, probably much more, of the same in the Senate

Watchers of the red benches say even if the government does not want the bill to go to committee, one way or another it will. It looks likely that the Opposition have the numbers to send the bill to a committee of its own. If not it could be picked up by the committee inquiring into the overall impact of COVID 19, which has already looked at HE issues.