❓ Barnett questions Carpenter about the allocation of university guild fees under the new legislation, particularly regarding the discrepancy between the Minister's statement and the mandated minimum allocation to guilds regardless of membership rates. Carpenter defends the legislation as a means to revitalise student life.
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UNIVERSITY GUILD FEES 270. Mr C.J. BARNETT to the Minister for Education: I refer the minister to his media statement today about the introduction of the Acts Amendment (Student Guilds and Associations) Bill 2002, which states - The Minister said the guilds would only receive the funds from the students who chose to become members. (1) How does the minister reconcile that statement today with the legislation, which requires that “. . . regardless of the number of students who are members of the Guild, the percentage of the amenities and services fees paid to the Guild must exceed 50% of those fees”? (2) Is the minister aware that according to the latest data, no Western Australian university that will be affected by this legislation has a student guild with student membership higher than 35 per cent of students, and that in one case the student membership is as low as six per cent of students? (3) In light of the minister’s comments today, how can he justify more than 50 per cent of the funds from the amenities fee going to a guild that has a student membership of only six per cent? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
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(1)-(3) All students will be required to pay a services and amenities fee, which will be distributed along the following lines: 51 per cent or more will go directly to the guilds, but if guild membership exceeds that figure, the proportion that is reflected in the guild membership will be paid directly to the guilds. In other words, if 75 per cent of students opt to join the guild when they enrol and pay their amenities and services fee, 71 per cent of that services and amenities fee paid by the student body will go directly to the guild. If, for example, 30 to 35 per cent of students opt to join the guild when they pay their services and amenities fee, at least 51 per cent of that revenue will go to the guilds. This will be debated this afternoon when we can explore the issues more fully. The reason for it is that we want to revitalise student life on university campuses. We want to provide the guilds with a critical mass of funding so that they can carry out their function of providing the services and amenities that they were providing until 1994, and which they were traditionally required to provide. That is what the Government is doing; it has not made any secret of it. Mr C.J. Barnett: The statement is incorrect. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I will have a look at it at my leisure and decide whether there is an error in the statement. I want to make it quite clear that the legislation will require all students upon enrolment to pay a services and amenities fee, of which at least 51 per cent will be paid directly to the guilds. The amount over and above that that goes to the guilds will directly reflect the proportion of students who opt upon enrolment to join a guild. The Government’s position has been on the public record for several months now, and that is its position today.
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I refer the minister to his media statement today about the introduction of the Acts Amendment (Student Guilds and Associations) Bill 2002, which states - The Minister said the guilds would only receive the funds from the students who chose to become members. (1) How does the minister reconcile that statement today with the legislation, which requires that “. . . regardless of the number of students who are members of the Guild, the percentage of the amenities and services fees paid to the Guild must exceed 50% of those fees”? (2) Is the minister aware that according to the latest data, no Western Australian university that will be affected by this legislation has a student guild with student membership higher than 35 per cent of students, and that in one case the student membership is as low as six per cent of students? (3) In light of the minister’s comments today, how can he justify more than 50 per cent of the funds from the amenities fee going to a guild that has a student membership of only six per cent? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied : (1)-(3) All students will be required to pay a services and amenities fee, which will be distributed along the following lines: 51 per cent or more will go directly to the guilds, but if guild membership exceeds that figure, the proportion that is reflected in the guild membership will be paid directly to the guilds. In other words, if 75 per cent of students opt to join the guild when they enrol and pay their amenities and services fee, 71 per cent of that services and amenities fee paid by the student body will go directly to the guild. If, for example, 30 to 35 per cent of students opt to join the guild when they pay their services and amenities fee, at least 51 per cent of that revenue will go to the guilds. This will be debated this afternoon when we can explore the issues more fully. The reason for it is that we want to revitalise student life on university campuses. We want to provide the guilds with a critical mass of funding so that they can carry out their function of providing the services and amenities that they were providing until 1994, and which they were traditionally required to provide. That is what the Government is doing; it has not made any secret of it. Mr C.J. Barnett: The statement is incorrect. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I will have a look at it at my leisure and decide whether there is an error in the statement. I want to make it quite clear that the legislation will require all students upon enrolment to pay a services and amenities fee, of which at least 51 per cent will be paid directly to the guilds. The amount over and above that that goes to the guilds will directly reflect the proportion of students who opt upon enrolment to join a guild. The Government’s position has been on the public record for several months now, and that is its position today.
(2) Is the minister aware that according to the latest data, no Western Australian university that will be affected by this legislation has a student guild with student membership higher than 35 per cent of students, and that in one case the student membership is as low as six per cent of students? (3) In light of the minister’s comments today, how can he justify more than 50 per cent of the funds from the amenities fee going to a guild that has a student membership of only six per cent? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied : (1)-(3) All students will be required to pay a services and amenities fee, which will be distributed along the following lines: 51 per cent or more will go directly to the guilds, but if guild membership exceeds that figure, the proportion that is reflected in the guild membership will be paid directly to the guilds. In other words, if 75 per cent of students opt to join the guild when they enrol and pay their amenities and services fee, 71 per cent of that services and amenities fee paid by the student body will go directly to the guild. If, for example, 30 to 35 per cent of students opt to join the guild when they pay their services and amenities fee, at least 51 per cent of that revenue will go to the guilds. This will be debated this afternoon when we can explore the issues more fully. The reason for it is that we want to revitalise student life on university campuses. We want to provide the guilds with a critical mass of funding so that they can carry out their function of providing the services and amenities that they were providing until 1994, and which they were traditionally required to provide. That is what the Government is doing; it has not made any secret of it. Mr C.J. Barnett: The statement is incorrect. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I will have a look at it at my leisure and decide whether there is an error in the statement. I want to make it quite clear that the legislation will require all students upon enrolment to pay a services and amenities fee, of which at least 51 per cent will be paid directly to the guilds. The amount over and above that that goes to the guilds will directly reflect the proportion of students who opt upon enrolment to join a guild. The Government’s position has been on the public record for several months now, and that is its position today.
(3) In light of the minister’s comments today, how can he justify more than 50 per cent of the funds from the amenities fee going to a guild that has a student membership of only six per cent? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied : (1)-(3) All students will be required to pay a services and amenities fee, which will be distributed along the following lines: 51 per cent or more will go directly to the guilds, but if guild membership exceeds that figure, the proportion that is reflected in the guild membership will be paid directly to the guilds. In other words, if 75 per cent of students opt to join the guild when they enrol and pay their amenities and services fee, 71 per cent of that services and amenities fee paid by the student body will go directly to the guild. If, for example, 30 to 35 per cent of students opt to join the guild when they pay their services and amenities fee, at least 51 per cent of that revenue will go to the guilds. This will be debated this afternoon when we can explore the issues more fully. The reason for it is that we want to revitalise student life on university campuses. We want to provide the guilds with a critical mass of funding so that they can carry out their function of providing the services and amenities that they were providing until 1994, and which they were traditionally required to provide. That is what the Government is doing; it has not made any secret of it. Mr C.J. Barnett: The statement is incorrect. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I will have a look at it at my leisure and decide whether there is an error in the statement. I want to make it quite clear that the legislation will require all students upon enrolment to pay a services and amenities fee, of which at least 51 per cent will be paid directly to the guilds. The amount over and above that that goes to the guilds will directly reflect the proportion of students who opt upon enrolment to join a guild. The Government’s position has been on the public record for several months now, and that is its position today.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied : (1)-(3) All students will be required to pay a services and amenities fee, which will be distributed along the following lines: 51 per cent or more will go directly to the guilds, but if guild membership exceeds that figure, the proportion that is reflected in the guild membership will be paid directly to the guilds. In other words, if 75 per cent of students opt to join the guild when they enrol and pay their amenities and services fee, 71 per cent of that services and amenities fee paid by the student body will go directly to the guild. If, for example, 30 to 35 per cent of students opt to join the guild when they pay their services and amenities fee, at least 51 per cent of that revenue will go to the guilds. This will be debated this afternoon when we can explore the issues more fully. The reason for it is that we want to revitalise student life on university campuses. We want to provide the guilds with a critical mass of funding so that they can carry out their function of providing the services and amenities that they were providing until 1994, and which they were traditionally required to provide. That is what the Government is doing; it has not made any secret of it. Mr C.J. Barnett: The statement is incorrect. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I will have a look at it at my leisure and decide whether there is an error in the statement. I want to make it quite clear that the legislation will require all students upon enrolment to pay a services and amenities fee, of which at least 51 per cent will be paid directly to the guilds. The amount over and above that that goes to the guilds will directly reflect the proportion of students who opt upon enrolment to join a guild. The Government’s position has been on the public record for several months now, and that is its position today.
(1)-(3) All students will be required to pay a services and amenities fee, which will be distributed along the following lines: 51 per cent or more will go directly to the guilds, but if guild membership exceeds that figure, the proportion that is reflected in the guild membership will be paid directly to the guilds. In other words, if 75 per cent of students opt to join the guild when they enrol and pay their amenities and services fee, 71 per cent of that services and amenities fee paid by the student body will go directly to the guild. If, for example, 30 to 35 per cent of students opt to join the guild when they pay their services and amenities fee, at least 51 per cent of that revenue will go to the guilds. This will be debated this afternoon when we can explore the issues more fully. The reason for it is that we want to revitalise student life on university campuses. We want to provide the guilds with a critical mass of funding so that they can carry out their function of providing the services and amenities that they were providing until 1994, and which they were traditionally required to provide. That is what the Government is doing; it has not made any secret of it. Mr C.J. Barnett: The statement is incorrect. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I will have a look at it at my leisure and decide whether there is an error in the statement. I want to make it quite clear that the legislation will require all students upon enrolment to pay a services and amenities fee, of which at least 51 per cent will be paid directly to the guilds. The amount over and above that that goes to the guilds will directly reflect the proportion of students who opt upon enrolment to join a guild. The Government’s position has been on the public record for several months now, and that is its position today.
Mr C.J. Barnett: The statement is incorrect. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I will have a look at it at my leisure and decide whether there is an error in the statement. I want to make it quite clear that the legislation will require all students upon enrolment to pay a services and amenities fee, of which at least 51 per cent will be paid directly to the guilds. The amount over and above that that goes to the guilds will directly reflect the proportion of students who opt upon enrolment to join a guild. The Government’s position has been on the public record for several months now, and that is its position today.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I will have a look at it at my leisure and decide whether there is an error in the statement. I want to make it quite clear that the legislation will require all students upon enrolment to pay a services and amenities fee, of which at least 51 per cent will be paid directly to the guilds. The amount over and above that that goes to the guilds will directly reflect the proportion of students who opt upon enrolment to join a guild. The Government’s position has been on the public record for several months now, and that is its position today.
I want to make it quite clear that the legislation will require all students upon enrolment to pay a services and amenities fee, of which at least 51 per cent will be paid directly to the guilds. The amount over and above that that goes to the guilds will directly reflect the proportion of students who opt upon enrolment to join a guild. The Government’s position has been on the public record for several months now, and that is its position today.
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I refer the minister to his media statement today about the introduction of the Acts Amendment (Student Guilds and Associations) Bill 2002, which states - The Minister said the guilds would only receive the funds from the students who chose to become members. (1) How does the minister reconcile that statement today with the legislation, which requires that “. . . regardless of the number of students who are members of the Guild, the percentage of the amenities and services fees paid to the Guild must exceed 50% of those fees”? (2) Is the minister aware that according to the latest data, no Western Australian university that will be affected by this legislation has a student guild with student membership higher than 35 per cent of students, and that in one case the student membership is as low as six per cent of students? (3) In light of the minister’s comments today, how can he justify more than 50 per cent of the funds from the amenities fee going to a guild that has a student membership of only six per cent? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied : (1)-(3) All students will be required to pay a services and amenities fee, which will be distributed along the following lines: 51 per cent or more will go directly to the guilds, but if guild membership exceeds that figure, the proportion that is reflected in the guild membership will be paid directly to the guilds. In other words, if 75 per cent of students opt to join the guild when they enrol and pay their amenities and services fee, 71 per cent of that services and amenities fee paid by the student body will go directly to the guild. If, for example, 30 to 35 per cent of students opt to join the guild when they pay their services and amenities fee, at least 51 per cent of that revenue will go to the guilds. This will be debated this afternoon when we can explore the issues more fully. The reason for it is that we want to revitalise student life on university campuses. We want to provide the guilds with a critical mass of funding so that they can carry out their function of providing the services and amenities that they were providing until 1994, and which they were traditionally required to provide. That is what the Government is doing; it has not made any secret of it. Mr C.J. Barnett: The statement is incorrect. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I will have a look at it at my leisure and decide whether there is an error in the statement. I want to make it quite clear that the legislation will require all students upon enrolment to pay a services and amenities fee, of which at least 51 per cent will be paid directly to the guilds. The amount over and above that that goes to the guilds will directly reflect the proportion of students who opt upon enrolment to join a guild. The Government’s position has been on the public record for several months now, and that is its position today.
(2) Is the minister aware that according to the latest data, no Western Australian university that will be affected by this legislation has a student guild with student membership higher than 35 per cent of students, and that in one case the student membership is as low as six per cent of students? (3) In light of the minister’s comments today, how can he justify more than 50 per cent of the funds from the amenities fee going to a guild that has a student membership of only six per cent? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied : (1)-(3) All students will be required to pay a services and amenities fee, which will be distributed along the following lines: 51 per cent or more will go directly to the guilds, but if guild membership exceeds that figure, the proportion that is reflected in the guild membership will be paid directly to the guilds. In other words, if 75 per cent of students opt to join the guild when they enrol and pay their amenities and services fee, 71 per cent of that services and amenities fee paid by the student body will go directly to the guild. If, for example, 30 to 35 per cent of students opt to join the guild when they pay their services and amenities fee, at least 51 per cent of that revenue will go to the guilds. This will be debated this afternoon when we can explore the issues more fully. The reason for it is that we want to revitalise student life on university campuses. We want to provide the guilds with a critical mass of funding so that they can carry out their function of providing the services and amenities that they were providing until 1994, and which they were traditionally required to provide. That is what the Government is doing; it has not made any secret of it. Mr C.J. Barnett: The statement is incorrect. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I will have a look at it at my leisure and decide whether there is an error in the statement. I want to make it quite clear that the legislation will require all students upon enrolment to pay a services and amenities fee, of which at least 51 per cent will be paid directly to the guilds. The amount over and above that that goes to the guilds will directly reflect the proportion of students who opt upon enrolment to join a guild. The Government’s position has been on the public record for several months now, and that is its position today.
(3) In light of the minister’s comments today, how can he justify more than 50 per cent of the funds from the amenities fee going to a guild that has a student membership of only six per cent? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied : (1)-(3) All students will be required to pay a services and amenities fee, which will be distributed along the following lines: 51 per cent or more will go directly to the guilds, but if guild membership exceeds that figure, the proportion that is reflected in the guild membership will be paid directly to the guilds. In other words, if 75 per cent of students opt to join the guild when they enrol and pay their amenities and services fee, 71 per cent of that services and amenities fee paid by the student body will go directly to the guild. If, for example, 30 to 35 per cent of students opt to join the guild when they pay their services and amenities fee, at least 51 per cent of that revenue will go to the guilds. This will be debated this afternoon when we can explore the issues more fully. The reason for it is that we want to revitalise student life on university campuses. We want to provide the guilds with a critical mass of funding so that they can carry out their function of providing the services and amenities that they were providing until 1994, and which they were traditionally required to provide. That is what the Government is doing; it has not made any secret of it. Mr C.J. Barnett: The statement is incorrect. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I will have a look at it at my leisure and decide whether there is an error in the statement. I want to make it quite clear that the legislation will require all students upon enrolment to pay a services and amenities fee, of which at least 51 per cent will be paid directly to the guilds. The amount over and above that that goes to the guilds will directly reflect the proportion of students who opt upon enrolment to join a guild. The Government’s position has been on the public record for several months now, and that is its position today.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied : (1)-(3) All students will be required to pay a services and amenities fee, which will be distributed along the following lines: 51 per cent or more will go directly to the guilds, but if guild membership exceeds that figure, the proportion that is reflected in the guild membership will be paid directly to the guilds. In other words, if 75 per cent of students opt to join the guild when they enrol and pay their amenities and services fee, 71 per cent of that services and amenities fee paid by the student body will go directly to the guild. If, for example, 30 to 35 per cent of students opt to join the guild when they pay their services and amenities fee, at least 51 per cent of that revenue will go to the guilds. This will be debated this afternoon when we can explore the issues more fully. The reason for it is that we want to revitalise student life on university campuses. We want to provide the guilds with a critical mass of funding so that they can carry out their function of providing the services and amenities that they were providing until 1994, and which they were traditionally required to provide. That is what the Government is doing; it has not made any secret of it. Mr C.J. Barnett: The statement is incorrect. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I will have a look at it at my leisure and decide whether there is an error in the statement. I want to make it quite clear that the legislation will require all students upon enrolment to pay a services and amenities fee, of which at least 51 per cent will be paid directly to the guilds. The amount over and above that that goes to the guilds will directly reflect the proportion of students who opt upon enrolment to join a guild. The Government’s position has been on the public record for several months now, and that is its position today.
(1)-(3) All students will be required to pay a services and amenities fee, which will be distributed along the following lines: 51 per cent or more will go directly to the guilds, but if guild membership exceeds that figure, the proportion that is reflected in the guild membership will be paid directly to the guilds. In other words, if 75 per cent of students opt to join the guild when they enrol and pay their amenities and services fee, 71 per cent of that services and amenities fee paid by the student body will go directly to the guild. If, for example, 30 to 35 per cent of students opt to join the guild when they pay their services and amenities fee, at least 51 per cent of that revenue will go to the guilds. This will be debated this afternoon when we can explore the issues more fully. The reason for it is that we want to revitalise student life on university campuses. We want to provide the guilds with a critical mass of funding so that they can carry out their function of providing the services and amenities that they were providing until 1994, and which they were traditionally required to provide. That is what the Government is doing; it has not made any secret of it. Mr C.J. Barnett: The statement is incorrect. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I will have a look at it at my leisure and decide whether there is an error in the statement. I want to make it quite clear that the legislation will require all students upon enrolment to pay a services and amenities fee, of which at least 51 per cent will be paid directly to the guilds. The amount over and above that that goes to the guilds will directly reflect the proportion of students who opt upon enrolment to join a guild. The Government’s position has been on the public record for several months now, and that is its position today.
Mr C.J. Barnett: The statement is incorrect. Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I will have a look at it at my leisure and decide whether there is an error in the statement. I want to make it quite clear that the legislation will require all students upon enrolment to pay a services and amenities fee, of which at least 51 per cent will be paid directly to the guilds. The amount over and above that that goes to the guilds will directly reflect the proportion of students who opt upon enrolment to join a guild. The Government’s position has been on the public record for several months now, and that is its position today.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER: I will have a look at it at my leisure and decide whether there is an error in the statement. I want to make it quite clear that the legislation will require all students upon enrolment to pay a services and amenities fee, of which at least 51 per cent will be paid directly to the guilds. The amount over and above that that goes to the guilds will directly reflect the proportion of students who opt upon enrolment to join a guild. The Government’s position has been on the public record for several months now, and that is its position today.
I want to make it quite clear that the legislation will require all students upon enrolment to pay a services and amenities fee, of which at least 51 per cent will be paid directly to the guilds. The amount over and above that that goes to the guilds will directly reflect the proportion of students who opt upon enrolment to join a guild. The Government’s position has been on the public record for several months now, and that is its position today.
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