The government adds an amount equivalent to the rate of inflation on every HELP debt annually (Ive paid $3000 of my student loan but Im deeper in debt, April 28). Imagine the outcry if banks started doing the same thing to mortgages. The only investment a nation can make in its future is the education of its young. We seem determined to make education a trickle-down Liberal concept where the rich (the government and the universities) win and the students lose for the rest of their lives. Chris Rivers, Port Macquarie
It worries me a bit that those with a tertiary qualification and higher incomes than most are so concerned about a relatively small deb…
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