Mehreen Faruqi (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. The Prime Minister graduated with a Bachelor of Economics in 1984. He did not pay a single dollar in tuition fees for his degree. A student commencing the same degree in 2025 will be slammed with more than $50,000 in student debt. So will anyone doing an arts degree, because of the Morrison government's Job-ready Graduates fee hikes, which the Albanese government has been all too happy to retain. Student debt is making the cost-of-living crisis worse, locking people out of the housing market and crushing dreams of going to uni. Year 12 student Saria Ratnam wrote this week in the Sydney Morning Herald: 'As a year 12 student, I dream of doing an arts degree. The price could be a lifetime of debt'. Minister, why is your government punishing students with $50,000 arts degrees?