Would have loved to see Resolve include a split on uni grads vs non-uni grads. I wonder if this has been polled before?

Your Guardian article quote is a typical normative and unconsidered media line looking for attention. HELP loans are repaid depending on income - you can die with it and it will just go away. You only end up paying what you can realistically afford, and Labor just made repayments more generous

Prof Chapman's HELP scheme is very sensible. Remove any upfront (tuition) cost to attend university, but ensure grads - who generally receive higher incomes post-graduation than they otherwise would have - pay their fair share, instead of the taxpayer

I ran out of characters...but it's technically zero-real-interest. In fact, it's now equal-or-less than 0% real interest since indexation is calculated as min(CPI,WPI). Even if you repay none of your loan, the real value stays flat year-on-year.

More of my thoughts on this in my recent oped.

tldr: Uni debt relief is generally regressive. Especially in Aus where we have zero-interest income-contingent loans, so grads are not hugely burdened by student debt like in the US

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