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Providing the dynamics that make it work don't change too much - poverty V affluence, no safety net like welfare/relying on family v not needing to rely on family except for extras, helping each other v one generation giving to the other only, etc. As a person of Greek, Macedonian...

The fault and messiness I see with the system is... for the small discount... mum paid Social Worker daughter (the least well paid of the qualified children) the 18K fees, who now pays the Architect sibling her 30K fees, who pays the Nursing sibling's 18K fees, who pays the Doctor sibling's...

That's OK... thought you might have misread.

How am I advocating a free uni education, with the graduate entitled to a life of luxury ever after? I'm not advocating anything of the sort. Just stating you're paying for it in much the same way, except it sounds messy, not brilliant. If I missed something obvious, please enlighten me.

I believe you can drive through, but seriously unless you're a Terminator or Road Runner you can't ski through :).

Brilliant... :confused: The ones working are paying for the younger siblings debt. It might not technically be their debt, but it's still a debt - that they are paying for at the start of their career, just like a HECS debt. Why not just pay the HECS?