Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and spokesperson for Higher Education, has called on Labor to bring in a bill right now to fulfil their promise of wiping 20% of student debt like they have done for fee-free TAFE places today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Faruqi:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf Labor can introduce legislation for fee-free TAFE places today, why can\u2019t they bring in a bill right now to fulfil their pledge to wipe some student debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPeople are hurting right now, they need student debt relief right now, not next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNot only is Labor delaying their promised changes to student debt, they are making them uncertain by tying them to the result of the next election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere\u2019s no reason to wait. Student debt relief shouldn\u2019t be dangled like a carrot on a stick and held ransom to the next election results. We have the numbers in the parliament to lock in these changes right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019ve kept the pressure on Labor and it\u2019s clear they are worried more than ever before about people voting Greens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLet\u2019s keep up the pressure for wiping all student debt and making TAFE and uni free.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and spokesperson for Higher Education, has called on Labor to bring in a bill right now to fulfil their promise of wiping 20% of student debt like they have done for fee-free TAFE places today. Senator Faruqi:\u00a0 \u201cIf Labor can introduce legislation for fee-free TAFE places … Continue reading “Faruqi: Introduction of TAFE bill shows Labor can also bring in legislation right now to wipe student debt”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29990,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29989\/revisions\/29990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}