greggerypeccary wrote on Oct 25^th, 2025 at 2:30pm:




Labor giveth, Labor taketh away.
Gough Whitlam's Labor government abolished tuition fees for university and technical college students in 1974, in an effort to make tertiary education more accessible to Australians of all backgrounds.

The policy remained in place through Liberal Malcolm Fraser's 1975 to 1983 prime ministership — but was scrapped in 1989 when the Hawke Labor government introduced the Higher Education Contributions Scheme (HECS).