Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

sentences and tables. The reality is, our reforms will mean that that students will be required to pay 50 per cent of the cost of their education, across the university sector, and they are currently on average paying 40 per cent.

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They are currently paying 40 per cent of the cost of their education. That is what the student cohort is paying. And they are getting the lowest unemployment rates of anybody in our community, long life expectancy, better health outcomes—and they will earn 75 per cent more, on average—

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