The 2016 Federal Budget Misses the Mark for Women (again)

By Terri Macdonald. Leaving aside the Government’s targeting of higher education for an additional $2 billion of cuts in funding, the fact that $100,000 degrees are still on the table and the likelihood of unfair changes in the HECS-HELP scheme which will increase the debt burden on students and see repayments start when earning below the average wage (noting that women are now the majority of both tertiary level students and those with unpaid HECS-HELP debts) - this Budget (again) fails women. More...