how is deregulation left wing out of curiosity? i havent reallylooked at it, i assume/hope it doesnt affect me
Deregulation is a 'right wing' policy because people who see it on the 'left side' of politics believe that it introduces barriers to people of a lower socioeconomic status in the form of uni fees thus reducing class mobility.
Personally, I think that thanks to the low interest loan that is the HECS/HELP system, deregulation is a perfectly fine concept because people only pay when they afford it. Alternatively uni's could take a variable % cut of a person's first 10 years of salaries (pre-tax).
How it affects you depends on where you are now and where you will be going as well as the current state of government. If you are doing something such as law, engineering, computer science or any other degree where the jobs available are high paying, you should be relatively fine. If you drop out or do degrees with historically lower salary potential it can severely affect you in the long term. Liberal and other 'right wing' governments are much more likely to introduce deregulation as a way of cutting expenditure.
Deregulation is supported mainly by uni's where research is the main focus (ie: go8) due to the possibility to increase fees and hence funding. Deregulation would also allow smaller, cheaper private institutions to come to the forefront to give a cheaper education usually at the cost of quality.
If you want to look at what deregulation looks like look at the U.S where huge prestigious institutions provide the best quality education at extremely high prices while smaller institutions can be known for ripping people off. I'd also advise to not bother with talk about a student loan bubble simply because you actually can't default on a student loan in the U.S, they'll just garnish your wage/salary, making them recession proof.
