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No case for free tertiary education
Readers’ letters on the Greens’ push for free tertiary education, the rise in wind and solar projects, Kevin Rudd’s future after the election of Donald Trump and a teen’s view on restricting social media until the age of 16.
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Free tertiary education would be be nice (“Greens’ plan for student debt ‘unrealistic’ ”, November 11), but it is not really free. It is just transferring the cost from those who benefit from it to those who do not, which is standard Greens philosophy.
After all, the Greens are the party for high-income and would-be high-income people who want someone else to pay for their electric cars, their solar panels, their childcare and their university degrees.
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