HECS debt. If you’re to believe the countless news reports about it over the last few months, millions of Australians are about to be crippled by it. 

But what if all the panicked headlines have been misleading us? And, actually, everything will be fine?

Today, federal politics reporter Paul Sakkal, on why the current HECS system helps us, rather than hurts us. And what people worried about debt should fight for, instead.

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