Ms Caitlin Faye Maniti:

I would like to note that in the development of this submission and the opening statement, we issued a call through all officers in the union to volunteer to make this submission. A large proportion of them were females in all-girl schools and coeducational schools. They had the passion and highlighted the issue the Deputy raised. It is not only about access but the experience of studying in a school where the majority is male and being ostracised or left out, not being engaged with or feeling left out in general in their study of STEM subjects. We do not have many statistics on that but we have collected a lot of anecdotal data.