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@lurker172602 wrote:

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vicr3000

then never get a job and then get married and so it never gets paid back.

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I did not know that.  Marriage negates your HECS debt.  Well, well, that's amazing. 

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It does if you're a stay-at-home mum and then go on to a part -time job or stay under the threshhold.

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@lurker172602 wrote:

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vicr3000

then never get a job and then get married and so it never gets paid back.

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I did not know that.  Marriage negates your HECS debt.  Well, well, that's amazing. 

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It does if you're a stay-at-home mum and then go on to a part -time job or stay under the threshhold.

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And how many tertiary educated women do you know who do that?    How many graduates are paid so badly that they stay under the threshold?  Professional women are not often "stay at home" mums.

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@lurker172602 wrote:

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vicr3000

then never get a job and then get married and so it never gets paid back.

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I did not know that.  Marriage negates your HECS debt.  Well, well, that's amazing. 

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It does if you're a stay-at-home mum and then go on to a part -time job or stay under the threshhold.

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And how many tertiary educated women do you know who do that?    How many graduates are paid so badly that they stay under the threshold?  Professional women are not often "stay at home" mums.

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I'd say a fair few. You think there is a high-paying job for every single graduate that enters the workforce? 

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@lurker172602 wrote:

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vicr3000

then never get a job and then get married and so it never gets paid back.

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I did not know that.  Marriage negates your HECS debt.  Well, well, that's amazing. 

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It does if you're a stay-at-home mum and then go on to a part -time job or stay under the threshhold.

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And how many tertiary educated women do you know who do that?    How many graduates are paid so badly that they stay under the threshold?  Professional women are not often "stay at home" mums.

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I'd say a fair few. You think there is a high-paying job for every single graduate that enters the workforce? 

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$50 000 is NOT a highly paid job. 

"The ABS says the average individual wage in Australia in November 2013 was $57,980 before tax. The average full-time wage is $74,724 before tax.May 8, 2014"

Can someone enlighten me as to why the average wage would change that much in less than 12 months?

One of the young women I work with has a large HECS debt and her plan has been to live/work overseas so as not to have to pay back her debt (she has dual citizenship). This has thrown a spanner in the works for her, I like to think it's Karma for her Abbot vote 😄

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@cosmosgrove wrote:

Can someone enlighten me as to why the average wage would change that much in less than 12 months?

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They are 2 different figures; the first takes into account part time incomes, the second only people who work full time - at least that is what I made of it.  I assume they released the 1st figures late last year and now they released the second.

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@lurker172602 wrote:

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vicr3000

then never get a job and then get married and so it never gets paid back.

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I did not know that.  Marriage negates your HECS debt.  Well, well, that's amazing. 

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It does if you're a stay-at-home mum and then go on to a part -time job or stay under the threshhold.

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And how many tertiary educated women do you know who do that?    How many graduates are paid so badly that they stay under the threshold?  Professional women are not often "stay at home" mums.

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I'd say a fair few. You think there is a high-paying job for every single graduate that enters the workforce? 

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$50 000 is NOT a highly paid job. 

"The ABS says the average individual wage in Australia in November 2013 was $57,980 before tax. The average full-time wage is $74,724 before tax.May 8, 2014"

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@lurker172602 wrote:

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vicr3000

then never get a job and then get married and so it never gets paid back.

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I did not know that.  Marriage negates your HECS debt.  Well, well, that's amazing. 

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It does if you're a stay-at-home mum and then go on to a part -time job or stay under the threshhold.

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And how many tertiary educated women do you know who do that?    How many graduates are paid so badly that they stay under the threshold?  Professional women are not often "stay at home" mums.

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I'd say a fair few. You think there is a high-paying job for every single graduate that enters the workforce? 

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$50 000 is NOT a highly paid job. 

"The ABS says the average individual wage in Australia in November 2013 was $57,980 before tax. The average full-time wage is $74,724 before tax.May 8, 2014"

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What a stonkingly irrelevant post. The government obviously deem $53.345 to be an average wage for the threshhold over which the HECS debt must be repaid.