House debates

Monday, 28 July 2025

Questions without Notice

Tertiary Education

2:49 pm

Photo of Jason ClareJason Clare (Blaxland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

There you go!—and he added this one. He said there is no such thing as a free lunch. We've heard that before. That was actually your policy!

They mightn't have thought that cutting student debt by 20 per cent was a good idea, but young people did. As one National Party MP told the Daily Telegraph after the election, 'My kids are paying off a university debt, and I reckon they voted Labor.' When even your own family won't vote for you, you know you've got it wrong. Tomorrow the coalition have a chance to get it right. They've got a chance to come in here and do what millions of Australians did on 3 May: vote to cut student debt by 20 per cent.

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