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The nation’s Opposition have kicked off the week by living up to their name today, and revealing their opposition to a piece of government policy.
The Liberals and Nationals have confirmed that they are strongly opposed to the government’s new policy aimed at providing Hecs and Tafe relief to the nation’s young people.
Trucking out the tried and tested cliche, the Coalition have claimed that ‘there is no such thing as a free lunch’ and the student relief will ‘severely hurt taxpayers.’
The comments follow the government’s announcements over the weekend, that they are proposing to take 20% off students debts, which would apply to $16bn worth of loans, and 100,000 fee free Tafe places.
The proposal of course won’t be put to parliament before the election, instead being a 5-20k carrot dangled in front of the nation’s youth.
Instead of matching the relief for the nation’s young people who have shouldered the cost of our housing crisis, the spicy cough and post resources-boom economic woes – the coalition are instead flat out Boomer Baiting.
“This young generation just wanted everything handed to them,” said Opposition spokesperson Paul Fletcher, who got a free university education at Sydney Uni and was able to buy a house for like 30 grand.
“That’s just not the way life works.”
“If you want free lunches then you should have been born in between 1952 and 1971, or you should get a job as a politician and let lobbyists wine and dine you.”
“They aren’t really free lunches, cause you have to do stuff for them, but you know what I mean.”
