Senator HARRIS (12:12 PM) —I return to the assurance that I was requesting from the minister, and the minister's response. The request for clarity was in no way intended to impede the government from making decisions—that is the right of the government. What we are debating today is a head of power for the government to appropriate taxpayers' funds to four institutions in total, two of which we believe are inappropriate. The question I put to the minister was about the head of power that the Higher Education Funding Amendment Bill 2002 will raise. Will the minister guarantee that no other institutions will be funded outside of those that are nominated in the bill? If the minister cannot give an assurance on that, then the government does not need to bring legislation into this place; it can go off and do whatever it wants to. We are looking for clarity that the head of power that this bill raises if our amendment is voted down will apply only to the four institutions that the bill applies to and will not be used to extend that to any other institution.