Terri Butler (Griffith, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Education. Yesterday, the minister rejected suggestions that his unfair HECS changes would deter low-income students from going to university. But Central Queensland University has said that it fears that the minister's unfair changes will act as a genuine disincentive to study amongst our more exposed and disadvantaged student cohort. Why is the minister making it harder for low-income students to get ahead by Americanising our universities and saddling students with a debt sentence?

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