Thursday, 20 November 2025

 David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (12:51): My matter today is to the tertiary education minister, the Minister for Skills and TAFE, and it relates to Monash University in my electorate and its extraordinary decision, I think, to cut out its arrangements with Woodside. Woodside has had a 43- year arrangement with Monash. They put in millions and millions of dollars in support for buildings, sponsorship of programs and internships for engineering and environmental science students across a wide front. The decision of the university to step away from that arrangement with Woodside is of concern, and I ask the minister to investigate this unfortunate and thoughtless decision, a decision that I think ought to be reversed. I think the relationship ought to continue. It is a major company that has now taken on the management of the Bass Strait gas fields.