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MINISTER FOR EDUCATION AND THE ARTS

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION TAKEN ON NOTICE - 3 DECEMBER 1991

Overseas Students

MR COLLAERY - asked the Minister for Education and the Arts:

I ask the Minister whether he is aware that the Federal Government has decided that all private overseas students should pay for the education of their dependants in Australia.

I ask the Minister whether the Federal Governments decision does not, in fact, amount to a decision for the Treasurer of our Territory to have to raise a levy effectively and I ask the Minister whether that levy will diminish our grants under the other arrangements as a result.

WOOD - the answer to Mr Collaerys question is:

Currently the Grants Commission does not make an allowance for dependants of international students. However, the ACT Government receives a general recurrent per capita grant for these presently unidentified students.

The Commonwealth has requested that such students be identified and charged at the recently agreed appropriate national fee by the State or Territory. The Commonwealth general recurrent grant would not then be paid for such students.

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