
Elizabeth Watson-Brown speaks about the crushing debt avalanche about to hit Australians.
Labor’s HECS scheme will burden around 3 million Australians with a crushing avalanche of debt from 1 June, because the debt is indexed to the soaring inflation levels.
This is an irrational and punitive policy, and its not the only problem facing our university sector. Casualisation, short-term contracts and shocking rates of unpaid extra work are strangling our universities.