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Do Australians care about unis? They're now part of our social wage, so we should

  • Written by Marcus Banks, Social policy and consumer finance researcher, School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, RMIT University

In 1988, then federal education minister, John Dawkins, drew upon the politics of class privilege to justify rolling out HECS student loans. A university user-pays system was needed, he argued, because Labor was not in the business of funding “middle-class welfare”. At the time, one reason a neoliberal appeal by Labor to its base could...

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