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Australia’s public commentary will tell you our spending on tertiary education is much lower than other OECD countries’.
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For years, we’ve heard Australia’s spending on tertiary education is some of the lowest in the OECD. This is only true if you ignore GDP growth. Real spending was actually going up, until 2016.