fatvegan

I reckon HECS should increase. I would increase it if it was up to me. And when I increased it, I'd increase the HECS payment threshold by a lot. Which is was has happened. And that's good.

I don't want some poor Irish immigrant brick-layer with a bad back paying for my education so I can wander off around the world being and economist. I don't mind the Irish brick-layer paying for a nurse's education who will one actually help him, but she'll never earn more than $35,000 anyway. The point of Whitlam's plan wasn' t to give everyone free education, it was to give everyone equitable access to education. And if the only way he could do that was by making it totally free, than that's what he'd do. But if someone comes up with a way of letting anyone who wants it have it, but still getting them to pay for it, then that's tops. I reckon. Yep.