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The growing power of the youth vote

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How much will your HECS/HELP debt increase this year?(Unsplash: Joshua Hoehne)

Changes to HECS and more financial support to some university students are among the latest round of budget pre-announcements unveiled by the Treasurer Jim Chalmers this week.

Payments to help students with so called  'placement poverty' are aimed at addressing a chronic shortage of teachers, nurses and social workers.

But there's plenty of politics behind the policy ahead of a federal election next year

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Kos Samaras; former Labor strategist and pollster

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