This policy will mean that young people can better afford to live while studying and will leave study with less debt. The $50 increase to the maximum for student allowances and living cost loans, along with the increase in Accommodation Benefit payments of $20 a week in Budget 2017, will make it easier for students to get by while studying, lowering a significant barrier to education. In particular, it will help to offset the rapid increase in rents that many students have faced in recent years due to the housing crisis.
anti-imperialistic, for example against controlling other countries and for greater self-government of colonies