HECS and home loans: the hurdle for university students

UON journalism student Peter Hyslop made a documentary with his peers on is it worth going to university, exploring rising HECS debts last year. Picture by Marina Neil.

For 20-year-old University of Newcastle journalism student Peter Hyslop, with a HECS debt sitting around $30,000 he's accepted home ownership may be out of his hands.

"I've accepted that home ownership might be difficult or just out of reach - I don't have much of a choice," he said.