Ray Goodlass’ Ray’s Reasoning | OPINION

By Ray Goodlass
January 9 2018 - 9:48am
No free education for current uni students
No free education for current uni students

In the busyness of everyone’s lives leading up to Christmas, readers may have missed the Lib/Nats Coalition government’s mid-year budget update announced in its MYEFO (the amusing but confusing acronym for the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook), which loudly trumpeted a larger surplus of $10.2bn in 2020-21, revised up from $7.4bn. The small print made it clear that this was due to new cuts to higher education and family payments. Given the bad news was probably the intention behind the timing.

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