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After a week of scandal centred on his travel perks, the prime minister will use a speech this Sunday to reset the Albanese Government’s agenda back onto the cost of living, promising to cut average student debt repayments by $680 a year. Labor says it will introduce legislation next year to lift the minimum income repayment threshold by more than $10,000 a year and index it so it will always stay at 75 per cent of graduate earnings.
The theme of Sunday’s rally is Building Australia’s Future, and the prime minister will tell the Labor faithful that the new education policy is “good for cost of living intergenerational fairness”. “This is what Labor Governments do – we help people under pressure, and we build for the future,” Albanese said. “This will be the heart of the positive and ambitious agenda we take to the Australian people at the next election. “Labor will always be the party of education.
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