NTRabbit
Brownlow Medallist
They were also looking at lowering the threshold to 35k.
A threshold of 35k would put all of these degrees outside of HECS and hence only available to those wealthy enough to pay up front
Band 3: Law, accounting, administration, economics, commerce, dentistry, medicine, veterinary science
Band 2: Mathematics, statistics, computing, built environment, other health, allied health, science, engineering, surveying, agriculture
Throwing money at 'research' that is just sold for peanuts is not a great idea.
Our research isn't sold for peanuts, you ******* peanut, it makes the government millions of dollars in royalties each year. But don't let facts stop a good force fed propagnda rant.
I'm sure you'll be pleased to learn though that under a 35k HECS threshold everything you listed will be unavailable to non-wealthy Australians just on 2015 prices, let alone after the stratospheric price rises caused by deregulation.