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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: The hardline stance on student loans is backfiring
Description: I didn’t do any study after I left school —no university, no polytech— so I’ve never had a student loan. I know about debt though, thanks to the mortgage.  And I reckon it would be very easy for me, as someone who has never had to pay off a student loan but who knows what it’s like to have the responsibilities of a mortgage, to dismiss what a former IRD prosecutor is saying today.  A former IRD prosecutor who says we need to go a bit easy on New Zealanders living overseas who are way...