Andrew Wilkie (Clark, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Education. Minster, the recent 650 per cent increase in HECS-HELP indexation is an entirely unreasonable and, indeed, a crippling impost on a great many Australians, especially coming, as it does, so soon after the previous government's reduction of the compulsory repayment threshold. Minister, education in this country was too expensive already. Will you urgently review the indexation rate and bring some relief from the soaring cost of living to the 2.9 million Australians lumbered with a HECS-HELP debt?

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