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Phew, around Australia right now the hopes of hundreds of thousands of debt-racking current students and debt-saddled ex-students are rising with cautious anticipation. One of the most innovative ideas to come out of yesterday's 2020 Summit had to be "Community Corps"; a scheme that could potentially have university graduates working off their HECS debt through volunteer work. However, while on paper it seems like a perfect solution to two problems - graduates need reduced debt; communities need greater volunteer numbers - the idea is already facing opposition from more than just the opposition. The National Union of Students argues that volunteer work isn't a viable option for those students who are already working part-time jobs on top of study commitments and that it would therefore be the wealthier kids on campus that reaped the benefits of the scheme. Hmm good point. What if the volunteer work was done post graduation? Would that work or is the whole thing a bit pie in the sky?