A young Australian tells Q+A she has been forced to forego her education due to the spiralling cost of living, opening the door for economist Gigi Foster to blame COVID-era government policy for rising inflation in Australia.
Gigi Foster blamed government policies for the suffering of younger Australians like Bella Mitchell-Sears.abc.net.au/news/gigi-foster-blames-covid-policy-for-inflation-university-debt/102090946Economist Gigi Foster has again attacked government policy related to the COVID-19 pandemic and told Q+A that in her opinion, it has played a significant part in rising inflation.
"My bills continue to rise, owning a home just seems like a pipedream and it doesn't look like it will get better." "There are tens of thousands more Australians we've lost since the middle of 2021 than we should have by historical standards and not all are COVID deaths by any stretch."Delayed lockdown deaths? Deaths of despair? People who had crowded out cancer screenings now dying of cancer? Vaccine side effects? What is it? This should be front-page news because you don't hear about it."These decisions are the ones that she is feeling the consequences of now.
"I can't afford to go to uni, but once I finally somehow do get the money to do it, I then am in $50,000 worth of debt," Ms Mitchell-Sears said.Bella Mitchell-Sears told Q+A she has had to drop out of university due to increased cost of living pressues."There's such a call for teachers, yet it seems impossible for me to achieve that.
"I think it was a retrograde step to make humanities degrees more expensive. I certainly don't support that."
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