Senate debates Questions without Notice

Higher Education


Jan McLucas

Jan McLucas Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Mental Health

2:18 pm

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Given that nurses do not earn high wages and that many are women who take time out of the workforce to have families, won't applying a real interest rate to HECS debt have a particularly adverse and regressive impact on these critical and caring workers, discouraging young women from starting in the profession?

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