Arguments for university fee deregulation are coming again amid #coronavirusau crisis & I worry they’ll ramp up unlike before without Govt support for sector 1/7 #auspol #highereducation #University

Any comparison to supposed ‘favourable’ resource capacity of US unis as justification without reference to the mammoth social issue of a $1.5 trillion student debt is inexcusable & immoral 2/7 #coronavirusau #auspol #highereducation #University

Debt & funding structure of US unis, just like the US health system, compounds structural inequality & inordinately impacts society based on race, gender, history, status etc. 3/7 #coronavirusaus #auspol #highereducation #university

Some outliers, exceptions or individual successes, do not change the overwhelmingly negative impact of deregulated & massively for profit institutions 4/7 #coronavirusaus #auspol #highereducation #university

We already know who suffers from these changes because they suffer now. We don’t need more inequality buried any further in the structures of society. We shouldn’t have to rely on the ‘benevolence of wealth’ 5/7 #coronavirusaus #auspol #highereducation #university

We can afford a more equitable higher education sector, just like we can with health and our social safety net more broadly. It’s a matter of priority and we must fight for it. 6/7 #coronavirusaus #auspol #highereducation #university

These options only make sense to psychopaths that count abstract numbers detached from reality & priority of what society should be. Nuance that up however you like, I get it, but more inequality is not the answer #coronavirusaus #auspol #highereducation #university 7/7