2022 $1 150 Years of Free Secular & Compulsory Education PNC
Tax included.
Free education in Australia began in the mid-1800s, with New South Wales pioneering compulsory, secular schooling in 1848. Other states followed suit, and by 1872, Victoria established free, compulsory education. Tertiary education became free in 1974 but was later replaced by student loans (HECS-HELP) in the 1980s.