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Sam Perkins

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Higher education policy professional | policy, governance, funding, regulation | writing about higher education policy in Australia

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A stacked column chart showing the combined savings from the revised Stage 3 tax cuts and changes to HELP repayment thresholds and rates for median full-time earners of select recently completed undergraduate degrees; Creative Arts graduates save more than $1,500 in total while teaching and nursing graduates save around $3,000, and Medicine graduates save nearly $3,500.

A stacked column chart showing the combined savings from the revised Stage 3 tax cuts and changes to HELP repayment thresholds and rates for median full-time earners of select recently completed undergraduate degrees; Creative Arts graduates save more than $1,500 in total while teaching and nursing graduates save around $3,000, and Medicine graduates save nearly $3,500.

After comparing the impacts of two key Labor policies on select bachelor graduates, I’ve had to change my mind about how impactful I thought the changes would be. They're of a comparable size for many middle income earners, totaling a 5% increase on median net earnings for a teaching graduate.

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