QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Dr RYAN (Kooyong) (15:00): My question is to the Minister for Education. Three million Australians are in for a horrible shock next week. On 1 June, their total HECS debt will increase by over $1 billion.

Compulsory repayments that they have made in the last 12 months will not be counted towards their debt before their HECS debts go up yet again. Minister, will you fix HECS by changing the timing of indexation so that repayments can be counted before graduates are hit with indexation?