The PM’s promise comes as Labor is set to gain Senate approval for laws to ease student loans for 3 million Australians by scaling back the indexation of their debts.
But the Greens are holding out for changes to the government’s “Nature Positive” plan, which aims to set up Environment Protection Australia to regulate new projects, in a last-minute tussle over the scale of the powers to protect wildlife and native forests.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton told colleagues the Coalition was in a strong position and said the government was “faltering” because its decisions were making things harder for families.While the Coalition has sought to block most of the government’s agenda in parliament this week, it has agreed toin an outcome some crossbenchers see as a deal to help the major parties at the expense of community independents.
The Australian Taxation Office will automatically apply the changes for 3 million people with HECS-HELP debts, backdated to June 1 last year. The government calculates that someone with a student debt of $27,000 will have about $1200 cut from their loan.and raise the income threshold that triggers HECS-HELP repayments because Labor says the bigger reform will take place only if it wins the election.
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