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

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. Student debt is crushing millions of people, shackling them in a lifetime of debt, blocking people out of getting their first home, making it harder to make ends meet, causing people to delay having families and even crushing their dream of going to uni. After years of relentless pressure, Labor is adopting parts of the Greens' policy to start to cancel some student debt. But what are you waiting for? Why are you dangling your pledge to cancel 20 per cent of student debt as an election bribe? Minister, will you commit to introducing legislation this week to lock in your government's pledge on cancelling 20 per cent of student debt and increasing the repayment threshold?