Tag: Hawke Federal Government

• Your student debt increases by 7.1 per cent today: what is being done politically and how will it affect you?

  

  The 7.1 per cent indexation rate for HECS-HELP is an added stressor for many university students and graduates following recent record inflation and cost-of-living pressures. OTR journalist Robert Hicks asks experts and political parties how this indexation will affect students, and what they are planning to do — or not do.

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  June 1, 2023

  Australian Economy, Education, Federal Politics, Finance, News, Student Life

  Albanese Government, ATO, australian greens, australian taxation office, Budget, Catriona Jackson, Centrelink, consumer price index, cost of living, Federal Budget 2023-24, Federal Politics, Hawke Federal Government, HECS-HELP, indexation, Jason Clare, JobSeeker, Labor, Political, Sarah Henderson, student, Student debt, tertiary education, University, young people, Youth allowance