Senator AYRES (New South Wales—Assistant Minister for Trade and Assistant Minister for Manufacturing) (12:42): Senator Rice said 'for all the students in the gallery.' The students in the gallery left a minute after you lot were on your feet, because they could see what a miserable, pathetic stunt this all really was. The Greens party we get to see here, with stunt after stunt— The PRESIDENT: Senator Ayres, please resume your seat. Senator Shoebridge. Senator Shoebridge: My point of order is that the member should direct the contribution through the chair and not point and gesticulate at the Greens in the manner in which he is behaving. The PRESIDENT: Thank you, Senator Shoebridge. Senator Ayres did not refer in particular to any senator, but I will remind him that pointing at senators is inappropriate. Senator AYRES: What a useful contribution that was! I don't want to point to them, but I do want to point out that this is where the students of Australia get to see the real colours of the Greens party. What is this really about? Is it about some of the affordability and other challenges that people face in the higher education sector? Not for a minute is it about any of those things. The government's got a process examining the real issues that sit there in higher education with affordability for students, but what is this really about—apart from some glib, US-style sloganeering about cancelling debt and all the other derivative nonsense that this group of characters carries on about? They are asking the Senate to choose between two things this week. Are we dealing with the HELP related issues or are we dealing with homelessness? Are we going to deal with a scheme that they think should be abolished, in their world, that means that students make a contribution when they earn enough or are we going to deal with people who are sleeping under bridges? This lot over here want to carry on with some student Trotskyite approach. They are trying to play chicken with the legislative process in this place, but what they don't want— The PRESIDENT: Thank you, Senator Ayres. The time for this debate has expired. The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT ( Senator Sterle ): The question is that the motion moved by Senator Faruqi be agreed to.