Labor’s HECS reforms ‘haven’t gone far enough’: One Nation Chief of Staff

One Nation Chief of Staff James Ashby says the Albanese government’s HECS reforms “haven’t gone far enough”. HECS debts will be lowered for more than three million Australians under reforms designed to stop the loans growing faster than wages. “They haven’t gone far enough here,” Mr Ashby told Sky News host Paul Murray. “What happens is those students, they’re paying off their weekly HECS debt, they do it every week … the problem is that money is quarantined until after the end of the financial year, and then it’s applied to their debt. “In the meantime, they’re actually putting this CPI against their debt before they actually subtract off the money that they’ve paid off.”