Quite right
@MichelleArrow1. This is just sleight of hand accounting. Labor has no intention of adequately funding HE. All Hundreds of academics are at risk of losing their jobs.
Labor has dodged the larger policy question of how tertiary education should be funded, and the response to this proposed debt cut (‘my taxes are paying these debts’) shows how urgently we need to discuss why tertiary education is important, and why it should be funded properly.