Clare Hourigan

Works at University of Queensland. Strat planning, data analysis, higher ed policy, social research (and lots of non work related things). Views are my own.

[Clare Hourigan @cfhourigan]

@redruby17 @john_c0nner Have you done it in the direction of the peak hour commute? I suspect it could be standing room only depending upon which station you get it from.

[Clare Hourigan @cfhourigan]

@redruby17 I thought it was Mazda 3 sized?

[Clare Hourigan @cfhourigan]

@DrDemography The fee is waived for those receiving an aged, disability or veterans pension.

[ABC News @abcnews]

#BREAKING: The Coalition has announced it will oppose the government's bill to limit the number of international students able to enrol from next year, just weeks out from when the caps were meant to come into force. https://t.co/iUUjuT4Avc

[Clare Hourigan @cfhourigan]

Putting aside whether there should be caps or not, the implementation plans for this are a mess. If the bill doesn't got through I doubt it will be the last we hear of it, but lets hope a more sensible approach can be worked through

https://t.co/aZ6uDSjrOW

[Michael Spicer @MrMichaelSpicer]

labour minister questioned about historical trump tweets

[Clare Hourigan @cfhourigan]

@redruby17 Perhaps try a saline nose spray for a few days and see if that helps

[Clare Hourigan @cfhourigan]

@redruby17 It’s in our big public hospitals that you will find cutting edge treatments and clinical research projects. The private system is mostly for elective surgery. If I had a stroke or heart attack in bris I would want to be going to somewhere like the PA.

[Clare Hourigan @cfhourigan]

@MarkLWarburton Thanks for the heads up. Maybe it’s a good thing then that it was hard to find.

[Clare Hourigan @cfhourigan]

For those thinking about the changes to HELP repayment rates today, I found these interesting stats in the depths of the internet. Includes stats on average time to repay and outstanding debt levels https://t.co/LtLeGzedQt

[Clare Hourigan @cfhourigan]

@ByronStol @DrDemography The good thing about the HELP system is that someone in your circumstance will never have to pay it off and you will now only have to make repayments if you earn over $67k. The system is designed to protect people in your situation

[Frank Bongiorno @fbongiornoanu]

@AlboMP Now do JRG.

[Clare Hourigan @cfhourigan]

Trying to think thru the pros/cons of a % cut instead of a $ cut. Putting aside those caught up in the $16k JRG rates (who need debt relief) I wonder if the biggest relief will go to recent MBA, medicine, PG law grads who may have large debts but also have high earning potential

[Andrew Norton @andrewjnorton]

More detail on the HELP debt cut of 20%. https://t.co/kHNB9ZBn2r

[Clare Hourigan @cfhourigan]

@andrewjnorton A one-off 20% debt reduction might be good for votes but does little to deal with the core problem.

[Clare Hourigan @cfhourigan]

@redruby17 It will no long spike in a high inflation year because it will be the lower of CPI or the wage prices index

[Clare Hourigan @cfhourigan]

@s_palm @DrDemography Has the net present value increased when the indexation is CPI/WPI? Isn't the $600 you save on the annual repayments worth more if it's sitting against a mortgage/car loan/high interest account?

[Clare Hourigan @cfhourigan]

@MarkLWarburton I couldn't find any info on how its calculated. So are you saying the current time to repay is actually much longer because the 9.9 years is skewed by people who paid their's off in the 90s/early 2000s?

[Clare Hourigan @cfhourigan]

@s_palm @DrDemography Biggest outstanding issue though is the JRG $16k a year student contributions for business and humanities. Still waiting for the government to tackle that one.

[Clare Hourigan @cfhourigan]

@s_palm @DrDemography The move to marginal rates is a good one. No more going backwards in net wages after a payrise. Extending the life of the loan is not great with banks now having to treat it like a car loan/credit card debt when assessing for mortgages. That seems dumb and should be changed.