A FORMER Queensland Young Australian of the Year winner appears to have mixed views about the university fee increase she is expected to pay when returning to university.
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Mount Isa’s Justice King, 19, said she would attend James Cook University to study law but that the financial cost was already a burden before the fee increase caused by government funding cuts.
Relocating from a rural area such as Mount Isa to Townsville was expensive.
ABC reports that university fees could increase as high as $3600.
But at the same time Ms King, who has political ambitions of becoming a federal senator, said there was no purpose in blaming the government for the fee increases.
“How about we as a society push aside the emotion of this change and work together to figure out approachable ways to enable the accessibility of education to our young people.
“There must be a better way,” Ms King said.
