Revenue-contingent loans should be offered to minimise taxpayer subsidies while protecting drought-affected farmers from insolvency.
- Emeritus Professor, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University
Higher education services – like healthcare, food and roads – do not magically drop out of the sky. It costs money to run university campuses, infrastructure and pay for teaching and research.
Reparing farm dams helps farmers – and nature. What if farmers could access loans for nature repair work – and only repay them when revenue is high?
After separation, mothers who experienced domestic violence on average suffered a drop in income of 34%, compared with a 20% decrease for mothers who didn’t experience domestic violence.
Workers could take a 10% pay cut on the condition it’ll be paid back when conditions improve.
Income-contingent loans could ensure people and businesses get financial relief now, and there is less long-term risk for the government.
Education experts discuss changes to schools and universities following the federal treasurer’s budget speech.
A flat-rate fee on all student loans is a fairer economic proposal.
The HECS revolution remains seriously incomplete because it does not extend to many parts of the vocational education and training sector - which still suffers from the scourge, hostility and unfairness of upfront fees.
A decade of strong mining revenue growth has seen workers disproportionately located in the “mining states” of Queensland and Western Australia. With mining investment now waning, workers drawn by in the…
The government has unveiled a higher education deregulation agenda in Tuesday’s budget, including continuation of the demand driven system in public universities. In a major shake-up, universities, TAFEs…
The Federal Government’s new Farm Finance assistance package includes concessional loans to help farms restructure debt and invest in productivity. But this is a back-to-the-future response that carries…
The architect of Australia’s student loan system has poured cold water on a report highlighting record levels of student debt, saying he would not be surprised if a fifth of all student debt was never…
Today’s proposal by the Grattan Institute for higher education students to pay more will be viewed by many as unfair and unreasonable, says Australian National University Professor Bruce Chapman. “No one…
Welcome to the latest in our In Conversation series, between former politician and economist Dr John Hewson, Australian National University (ANU) Crawford School Director of Policy Impact Professor Bruce…
It is commonplace in Australian policy debate for groups presumed adversely affected by proposed policies to provide estimates of the undesirable consequences of change. A fashionable form relates to predictions…
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