Taking an experimental vaccine wasn’t a requirement when they signed up to the degree and debt, the rules were changed on them. That HECS debt should be cancelled.
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Senator Roberts: The Greens want to talk about cancelling HECS debt. Well, let’s talk about the HECS debt of students who started their degrees and then were forced to abandon them because of COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Any student who started studying their degree at university before COVID-19 arrived and subsequently was forced to abandon their studies because of an inhumane COVID-19 injection mandate, whether the mandate was at the university or at a placement that they were required to undertake as part of their degree, should have that HECS debt immediately cancelled. When they signed up to their multi-year degrees, there was no requirement for them to take an untested, experimental, gene therapy based injection.
The President: Senator Roberts, if you could resume your seat for a moment. The substance of your response needs to focus on the motion put forward by Senator Faruqi, which is to suspend business to debate the bill the Greens want to put forward, so you do need to respond to why you agree or disagree or make other comments around the urgency of that suspension motion.
Senator Roberts: Thank you. I’m getting to that point right now. Halfway through their degrees, that rule was changed on them, and they had no say over it. Their debt should be cancelled immediately.
That’s why One Nation will be opposing this motion to suspend standing orders: we want a proper debate. We want a royal commission. We want it dealt with properly so that students who have been kicked out of university, stopped their studies or stopped their placement get a fair say and have their HECS debt cancelled.
Sadly the same thing happened to me. Attending TAFE, I won a scholarship and they now want the money back after I lost my job in allied health. I now have a $3500 tax bill.
Agreed
I cannot thank you enough for this! My 21yo has a huge debt and is in her 4th year of a 3 year degree in medical laboratory science at USQ. She can’t do placement because Qld Health STILL mandate. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Why not cancel ALL HECS?
What made university education BIG BUSINESS
It used to be no charge, loads came from overseas, sucked up our high level free of charge education, then went back to countries of origin.
Why punish ALL AUSTRALIA?
Get real.
What a slap in the face.
Actually, everything we get from government, these days, equates to
ANOTHER SLAP IN THE FACE.
How dare you
Good idea. As the HECS debts and university fees went up, the quality of education declined. It is not that the actual instructors/professors get the money, it all went into meaningless frills.
Talk to the National Tertiary Education Industry Union to understand how it all went “pear shaped”.
Wish they’d forgive my hecs debt.
The degree was useless in the real world, mostly made up on the fly rubbish and full of pointless filler subjects.
Universities and colleges are running expensive cons on unsuspecting students with the promise of degrees that will give them better gainful employment.
Unless you’re doing one of the top tier careers like doctor, lawyer, sciences etc or something in the social sciences rubbish to be a busy idiot in the bureaucracy then they are a waste of time and money. Even then it might only get you a basic wage with a huge debt.
Take the money from the death jab manufacturers!
My daughter finished a double degree in Midwifery and nursing at UQ. She then got half way through her post grad year and got sacked for not agreeing to take the jab ! She one day wants to have a family. I’ll leave that there. She has now left Australia to find work abroad were she will be valued and respected. Your loss Australia.