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#2964368 7-Sep-2022 17:34

I still maintain we won't see wholesale debt write off like the Americans for student loans, but we may see an Australian-style repayments system instead our one, which is punitive and also sucks.

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#2964474 8-Sep-2022 08:00

I took a student loan when I was doing my degree, the debt itself was only ever small (I think about $2k) but as I was working full time, the repayments against my income at the time was quite crushing. Whilst the interest free was good, it made living week to week quite difficult.

I would certainly hope that our o/seas based debtors are being chased. They have used the taxpayers money for their own personal gain, time to pay the piper.

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#2964918 9-Sep-2022 08:19

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I took a student loan when I was doing my degree, the debt itself was only ever small (I think about $2k) but as I was working full time, the repayments against my income at the time was quite crushing. Whilst the interest free was good, it made living week to week quite difficult.

I ended up with a loan in the tens of thousands, I'll only have just paid it off this year, but effectively having your wages garnished by 12% from a low starting point when the Australian system maxes out at a lower rate which kicks in at various progressive thresholds is incredibly frustrating, given our lower wages and higher living costs.

It's simply not fit for purpose anymore.

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#2969403 17-Sep-2022 09:50

Who is paying for all these people who are attending the Queens Funeral? Why do we need so many?

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#2969413 17-Sep-2022 11:06

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Who is paying for all these people who are attending the Queens Funeral? Why do we need so many?

If it's anything like Australia, the government is paying for it and the reason there is so many is because the government was asked to invite some members of the public as well.

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#2969465 17-Sep-2022 17:31

Maybe we could have ignored it to save money? Not my thoughts, but....

Lets not ignore an icon in a world of chaos

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#2970057 19-Sep-2022 11:45

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Maybe we could have ignored it to save money? Not my thoughts, but....

Lets not ignore an icon in a world of chaos

No-one is suggesting ignoring it, but did we have to send so many people? She is a magnificent person of service, but she is dead, and it's pretty unlikely most of these people had a close relationship with her. It's mostly for show.

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#2970058 19-Sep-2022 11:48

Why on earth would the 'most transparent Government ever" be reluctant to hold an inquiry into our Covid Response? It should be mandatory, and I would feel this way regardless of who was in charge. We obviously could take a lot of learnings from the last 3 years, in how we could do it better, and it doesn't need to be a witch hunt per se, just a way to have everything out in the open. If the Government did a fantastic job, we should know, if they should or could have done things differently, we should have that in the open as well, so our next response is more successful.

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#2970074 19-Sep-2022 12:13

Four simple words. "Who knew what when".

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#2970301 19-Sep-2022 20:31

networkn: No-one is suggesting ignoring it, but did we have to send so many people?

Is there a list available?

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#2970341 20-Sep-2022 08:10

Our Head of State died. That's a fairly big deal - it hasn't happened in 70 years or so. I think we can probably stretch the budget to accommodate a few plane tickets and hotel rooms for a once-in-several-decades event.

I dare say there'll be a smaller touring party for the coronation next year.

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#2970356 20-Sep-2022 08:58

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Why on earth would the 'most transparent Government ever" be reluctant to hold an inquiry into our Covid Response?

There would be a lot of of "coulda shoulda woulda" honestly not to mention the associated cost which in doubt would have been dragged out as needless government spending by those in opposition. It's a lose/lose outcome if you try and go for it.

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#2970364 20-Sep-2022 09:13

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networkn:

Why on earth would the 'most transparent Government ever" be reluctant to hold an inquiry into our Covid Response?

There would be a lot of of "coulda shoulda woulda" honestly not to mention the associated cost which in doubt would have been dragged out as needless government spending by those in opposition. It's a lose/lose outcome if you try and go for it.

Unlikely, given it's them that is calling for it. For the hundreds of committees, many of who have still not reported back, the cost of this is likely money well spent. If we could cut a couple of per cent of costs for the next big thing, or have things handled more efficiently, then the costs will offset themselves. Couldna wouldna shoulda is a perfectly reasonable thing when you have spent as much money as this.

It's not needless spending, it's probably some of the most important right now.

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#2970369 20-Sep-2022 09:21

GV27:

Our Head of State died. That's a fairly big deal - it hasn't happened in 70 years or so. I think we can probably stretch the budget to accommodate a few plane tickets and hotel rooms for a once-in-several-decades event.

I dare say there'll be a smaller touring party for the coronation next year.

It's not a few, it's a lot. Including the people who must go with those people for security etc. I understand having representation, the PM, perhaps the Governor General, other than that, why are these other people there? Did they know her personally?

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#2970380 20-Sep-2022 09:54

Some of them were invited and National would have sent roughly the same.

When we spend millions on a completely irrelevant flag referendum or $3 million trying to sell a government policy on water, the hundreds of thousands spent on this is a drop in the ocean.

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