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UOW students on HECS debt cut
Illawarra Mercury
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5/6/2025
Students at the University of Wollongong share their thoughts on the reelected Labor government's plan to cut HECS debts by 20 per cent.
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I've kind of been ignoring the Hex debt, but any reduction I am happy with I suppose.
00:16
I don't know what the overall thing is, but after just one semester I know that my Hex
00:19
debt was almost three grand, so 20% would be great.
00:22
Well, we only just started in our first year, so it's not really that big right now, but
00:28
we're just hoping that we actually do get the 20% that was asked off to.
00:32
I mean, yeah, if I have to spend my money, then yeah.
00:35
Oh, yeah, so keen.
00:37
I saw that on the voting thing and I was like, yep, very excited.
00:41
For me, I did a teaching degree, so that's about 35,000, so I'm not very good at maths,
00:48
but 20% is a good portion, a bit over six grand, so it'll be beneficial.
00:59
The time I was going to take a look at this very much.
01:06
We're here to the Trevass.
01:09
Nice.
01:12
Thanks.
01:14
The time I was going to take a look at you, I went back to Cade, and I had to take a look.
01:17
I, I was going to take a look at you.
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