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Dominic Giannini

Permanent uni student safety body touted over taskforce

Australia's education ministers are working together to ensure university students are safe. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

A permanent, independent body to oversee student safety on university campuses would be better than a taskforce, the federal education minister says.

Jason Clare was responding to a parliamentary inquiry that found the way the university sector handled sexual assault complaints was woefully inadequate and that it couldn't be trusted with reform without independent oversight. 

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