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Labor has promised fast action to cut student debt, but arts students will have to wait for lower fees

By Andrew Norton, Professor of Higher Education Policy, Monash University

If you’re among the 3 million Australians with a HECS-HELP debt, it’s about to be cut by 20%, with no repayments until you earn $67,000. But there is one downside.

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