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A billion dollars a year for 900 fewer tertiary students

Published: Thu 17 May 2018 02:57 PM
A billion dollars a year for 900 fewer tertiary students. WTF?
17 MAY 2018
Treasury has ripped off the political veil and exposed the Prime Minister’s flagship ‘free’ tertiary education policy with Budget showing that the numbers in tertiary education set to decline by 900 in the 2018/19 year.
Taxpayers’ Union Executive Director, Jordan Williams, says:
“The whole reason the Prime Minister pushed ahead with the billion dollar policy was apparently to increase the numbers accessing tertiary education. That was seen as more important than various other pre-election commitments which were pushed aside.”
“The Government wants to spend $1.2 billion a year – $694 per household – on free tertiary fees and the projected impact is 900 fewer students. Is this possibly the most wasteful policy ever?”
ENDS

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