Higher Education Contribution Scheme



Australia’s higher education loan scheme has again made headlines in recent weeks, as the Federal Government announced plans to make ‘job relevant’ degrees cheaper for… Read More ›

New Debates Over the Cost of Degrees Reignites Unresolved Conflict Over Fairness in Higher Education

Australia’s student loan scheme, originally called the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS), was introduced in 1989. This innovation, now known as the Higher Education Loan… Read More ›

HECS and the Rise of the Investment State

Budgets are always contextual and reactions to them will be relative to both alternatives and the status quo. The natural comparison of the 2017/18 changes… Read More ›

Budget Forum 2017: Changes to HECS-HELP and University Funding

Prior to the election Labor announced that if elected the party would put in place a new and quite different set of arrangements for the collection… Read More ›

Justice in the Collection of Fines

Does this seem like a trick question? After all isn’t the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) supposed to collect and report on the revenue raised from… Read More ›

What Public Administration Functions Can the ATO Fulfil?

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