Comment on Australia in danger of becoming an ‘artless country’ as enrolments in creative courses collapse
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 days agoJust one thing - student debt in Australia generally isn’t a problem like it is overseas. HECS/HELP repayments are a tiny percentage of your wage, and only kick in after you’re earning above a certain amount. Student debt would affect artists the least because the likely wouldn’t have to even repay it until they’re not struggling.
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Its the one thing i think the Albanese gov really wasted money on, that rebate. There are so many other important needs all those funds could have been directed towards.
If they still wanted a positive change to the hecs/help debt scheme they could’ve increased the rate the repayments kick in back to pre-Abbott levels. Accounting for cost of living increases, it mightn’t even be a controversial policy.
I speak as a beneficiary of the rebate. Surely the policy wasn’t that popular with hecs/help debt holders that it drove votes.