HELP debt to be wiped for nurse practitioners working rural and remote
Nurse practitioners and doctors are being enticed into working in rural and remote Australia by having their HECs/HELP debt entirely wiped, or slashed. The new legislation, Higher Education Support Amendment (2022 Measures No.1) Bill 2022, introduced into Parliament today by the Federal Government, is aiming to encourage initial employment and retention of health practitioners to […]
Time for constitutional change: A First Nations voice to Parliament
One of the Labor Government’s key election promises was to give a voice to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Parliament. Now in power, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed a draft set of words to be added to the constitution to enshrine an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. But for the planned constitutional change […]