Comment on Greens announce plan to wipe HECS debts and make university free

makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• brisk@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is even worse than when journalists normally ask this question. It’s a debt not a payment.

  They will pay for it by finding a $2 coin in the centre console of their government funded car to buy a biro to cross off the line item.

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  • brisk@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Fuck me, the “rhetorical” question in the lede is answered in the article, buried in the nteenth paragraph.

    The policy proposal falls under the Greens’ so-called ‘Robin Hood reforms’ and they have said they will pay for the plan by “taxing big corporations that are profiting off price gouging during a cost of living crisis”.

    This is borderline disinformation by the national broadcaster.

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