{"id":129421,"date":"2024-09-19T12:07:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T02:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=129421"},"modified":"2024-09-19T12:07:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T02:07:36","slug":"almost-57-000-australians-owe-more-than-100000-in-hecs-debts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=129421","title":{"rendered":"Almost 57 000 Australians owe more than $100000 in HECS debts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Almost 57 000 Australians owe more than $100000 in HECS debts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The Morrison govt doubled the price of arts, business and law degrees &#8211; to over $50 000. Last week in Question Time I asked the Education Minister to reverse that change. I\u2019ll keep asking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Monique Ryan MP<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It is incredible how this country deliberately taxes those who seek to build a better life with furthering their education and in doing so make a definitive contribution to the economy and the country.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Australians-have-incurred-a-total-student-debt-of-over-100-billion-according-to-the-Australian-Taxation-Office.-Credit-SBS-News-1024x1024.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-129423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Australians-have-incurred-a-total-student-debt-of-over-100-billion-according-to-the-Australian-Taxation-Office.-Credit-SBS-News-1024x1024.avif 1024w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Australians-have-incurred-a-total-student-debt-of-over-100-billion-according-to-the-Australian-Taxation-Office.-Credit-SBS-News-300x300.avif 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Australians-have-incurred-a-total-student-debt-of-over-100-billion-according-to-the-Australian-Taxation-Office.-Credit-SBS-News-150x150.avif 150w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Australians-have-incurred-a-total-student-debt-of-over-100-billion-according-to-the-Australian-Taxation-Office.-Credit-SBS-News-768x768.avif 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Australians-have-incurred-a-total-student-debt-of-over-100-billion-according-to-the-Australian-Taxation-Office.-Credit-SBS-News.avif 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Australians have incurred a total student debt of over $100 billion, according to the Australian Taxation Office.\u00a0Credit:\u00a0SBS News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Why is Australia so backward in that it makes it near impossible or at least penalises people for seeking further education?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is incredible how this country deliberately taxes those who seek to build a better life with furthering their education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":129422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999,35],"tags":[472,13467],"class_list":["post-129421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-australian","tag-hecs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129424,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129421\/revisions\/129424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}