‘Band-aid’: debt relief fails to address inequitable pricing of degrees, university students say

Albanese’s plan is viewed as a ‘last ditch effort’ to win votes but students also want the vexed jobs ready graduate scheme reversed

Ngaire Bogemann was in year 12 when the Morrison government announced drastic changes to increase the cost of arts degrees by 113%.

Now, more than four years later, she’s among hundreds of thousands of students who will have to wait until after the next election for any reprieve on their now-$50,000 arts degrees – despite the policy being slammed by Labor at the time as “deeply flawed”, “irrational” and an act of “economic and cultural vandalism”.

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