Fed: Student fees set for sure defeat in the Senate

AAP General News (Australia)
08-18-2009
Fed: Student fees set for sure defeat in the Senate

A federal government plan to slug university students with annual fees of up to 250
dollars is facing certain defeat .. after Family First senator STEVE FIELDING and the
Nationals flagged they would not support it.

The Senate's expected to vote today on the law to allow universities to charge students
for sporting .. cultural .. welfare and advocacy services .. winding back the Howard government's
Voluntary Student Unionism.

But Senator FIELDING .. whose vote is needed to pass the law .. says he'll join the
opposition to vote against it.

He says the bill is morally flawed .. because it's a tax on poor students.

AAP RTV bsb/wz/psm/

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