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Steven Hamilton

Labor’s mimicking of Biden on uni debt is inequitable and indefensible

Not satisfied with crippling Australia’s higher education system with its self-destructive student caps, the government simply couldn’t resist doubling down.

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The ridiculous co-opting of American policy fads by the Albanese government continues unabated.

When the government adjusted the HELP indexation rate in the May budget, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese deliberately invoked the Biden administration’s (unconstitutional) student loan forgiveness, saying “We’re wiping more than $3 billion in student debt.”

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Steven Hamilton is assistant professor of economics at George Washington University and visiting fellow at the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at the ANU.

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