Good morning. Graduates say they’re still struggling to pay off debts racked up under Australia’s controversial 1990s student loan scheme. It was a “scam” by the government that targeted “poor kids”, one tells Guardian Australia. Now in their 40s and 50s, they’re being chased for money they borrowed under an initiative that urged low-income students to take out loans for their living costs – even though the federal government ditched the scheme two decades ago.
Meanwhile, fighting in Sudan spreads to the fragile Darfur region and Australians scramble to cover the basics as food prices rise again.
