When you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail:
UNSW economics professor Richard Holden said the policy for a one-off cut of 20 per cent to student debt was “blatant vote-buying” in the vein of Queensland Labor’s strategy before the state election.
“The government’s just acting like this doesn’t count, it’s just Monopoly money, of course it does count – it’s going to add up to another $16bn to net debt,” Professor Holden said.