Jerome Laxale (Bennelong, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Today we introduced a bill to help young people, a bill to help rebalance the scales of intergenerational equity. Today we introduced a bill to take 20 per cent off student debt. It'll help over 23,000 people in Bennelong and more than three million people across the country. It'll save them on average $5½ thousand, and it'll make repayments fairer.

But let's never forget that, if it were up to the Liberals and Nationals, today would not have happened. They call this reform unfair. They attacked it before the election, and they still belittle it to this day, questioning our motives for doing it. We're doing it because Labor knows it's tough to be in your 20s and 30s, and we'll always stand up for our young people.

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