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.