Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

So, students should reject the scare campaign, because it just is not true. In fact, just today Dr Geoff Sharrock of the LH Martin Institute at the University of Melbourne has published an article headed 'Labor's '$100,000 degree' projections are misleading'. And he proves why. He says:

The problem is that the ALP’s “debt sentence” case studies are misleading.

Even the shadow Assistant Treasurer, Dr Andrew Leigh, gives the lie to the scare campaign on fees when he says that there is no reason to think that fee deregulation will adversely affect poorer students. He knows that, because under HECS no student needs to pay a cent up-front, and no-one needs to repay anything—