At the time, it felt like wed been dudded.
For 15 years, since the crazy-brave days of Gough Whitlam, university degrees in Australia had been free. Yet here we were, about to start uni in the summer of 89, knowing wed be the first lot to cop a student debt under the governments newly minted Higher Education Contribution Scheme.
University graduates are being burdened with debt.
The cost of my contribution towards an arts degree? A whopping $900 a semester.
If only the kids angrily picketing O-week knew how lucky we really were.
A generation later, my 21-year-old son is also a HECS pioneer or H…
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