Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

yet it is the most successful higher education system in the world. In spite of that, Australia has the Higher Education Loan Program; the United States does not. Our HELP system is the envy of the world. Students pay, when they earn over $50,000 a year, two per cent of their income at the lowest loan rate they will ever get in their lives. That is why, in spite of the Hawke government introducing the Higher Education Contribution Scheme, when Labor was led by great leaders rather than the current Leader of the Opposition, the participation rate of Australians in the higher education system—

Mr Champion interjecting—

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