For most people the policy affects, the timing may not seem critical. But a fraction are owed refunds from the government and still don't have that money in their pockets.
Back in May, the Labor government spruiked some big changes to the way higher education debts were indexed.
But a fraction of those people are owed refunds from the government — and still don't have that money in their pockets.for Higher Education Loan Program debts. You'd assume the Labor government would want these both to be passed — which it does — but it doesn't want that second proposal to come into action yet.
"They want to amend Labor's bill to add... Labor's HECS relief policy, which was announced a couple of weeks ago but is only supposed to happen after the election."It seems Labor doesn't want to contemplate that, because it's instead trying to push for a vote on the bill without voting on the Greens amendment, presumably wanting to avoid voting down their own policy.
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