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AHA Vice President Kate Fullagar appeared on RRR today in a long conversation about the campaign to repeal JRG. Listen in from the 1hr, 9 minute mark! linktr.ee/aushistorica...

Every Australian academic should sign this, imo, historian or not. Job Ready Graduates fundamentally disrupted the whole HE funding and enrolment ecosystem for the worse. It's not just about who does Arts.

Please consider signing to achieve affordable Arts degrees.

All the links relating to the current campaign to repeal Job-Ready Graduates are housed here. Please feel free to share widely! We'd especially love people to sign the petition. Thank you for your support! linktr.ee/aushistorica...

Signed. Please consider doing the same. #StudentDebt #HECS #AcademicSky #JRGNeedsToGo

This year has not gone as planned; my work/career plan was a cactus by February. As I reflect on this for my contribution to the @austhistassoc.bsky.social ECR panel, I'm starting to think that a determined, oddly optimistic, resilient, and perpetually curious historian is emerging as a result.

We are so close to reaching our target of 2500 signatures on this petition calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates! If you care about equity in higher education and want the BA to be affordable and accessible for *all* students, please sign! www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

@austhistassoc.bsky.social taking a lead here. Pls sign this petition and share it around:) www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

Thank you @austhistassoc.bsky.social for addressing the abomination that is Job-Ready Graduates and petitioning the Albo Labor Government to repeal it #auspol. We need more grads and esp. lawyers from Indigenous and other minority backgrounds, not fewer!

Taking 20% off old HECS debts won't really help current humanities students whose debt has doubled because of JRG. They're still much worse off.

I'd urge anyone keen to see the student contribution to tertiary education costs in Australia reduced to sign this petition.

Labor's bill to cut HECS debts by 20%, which passed this morning, leaves unchanged the structural inequalities built into tertiary education through Job-Ready Graduates. Sign our petition calling for the repeal of this destructive and unfair policy here: www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

It absolutely kills me & my devoted colleagues to be teaching beautiful cohorts of bright, engaged, inquisitive young people, knowing that they are being unfairly burdened with a massive debt because of ideological views. Sign here to petition the Albanese gov't to act on this now ↓

I’ve signed the petition and calling on Australian academics in our law schools to get behind this too. Law is arts and the humanities too, regardless if you’re formally within some business faculty. And business academics, you should be signing it anyway.

From the Australian Historical Association: Open Letter to the Prime Minister: Restoring Equity in Higher Education @austhistassoc.bsky.social "We urge you to abolish JRG and to institute a new fee regime which does not punish students who choose to study the humanities and social sciences."

“Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing” theconversation.com/top-australi...

And! People of all professions, including people in the business and corporate sphere, have signed our petition, leaving comments about the enduring social, political, and economic value of the BA. Sign the petition, read the comments, leave your own in support! www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

And it’s not just writers: comedians, business leaders, academics, musicians and chefs have signed our letter:

'The independent member for Kooyong, Dr Monique Ryan, will this week table an amendment to the student debt bill to reverse the JRG package and change the timing of Hecs/Help indexation until after prepayments are made.' #highered #auspol #academicsky

A great comment piece on @austhistassoc.bsky.social open letter urging the PM to repeal Job-Ready Graduates: theconversation.com/top-australi...

"The erosion of the humanities is not just a policy failure. It is a failure of imagination"

While I wait for my university's overzealous spam filters to let my verification email through so my signature is approved, I will encourage you all to sign this petition. openpetition.org/!repealjrg

Please sign the petition to make the government act on this disastrous policy: www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing theconversation.com/top-australi...

Thank you to @theconversation.com for sharing the open letter calling for @albomp.bsky.social to repeal Job-Ready Graduates. theconversation.com/top-australi...

Wonderful! Thanks David!

If you would like to add your voice in support, you can sign here: url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/w2nbCBNqgB...

And if you would like to see the letter and all signatories, and send it to your own MP, you can find it here: theaha.org.au/wp-content/u...

The @austhistassoc.bsky.social is proud to have initiated this open letter asking for the repeal of the egregious JRG punishment of humanities and social sciences in Australia. Read about the 100 signatories below, and please sign in solidarity yourself: www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

"Earning a humanities degree was not only life changing, in terms of opening up a world of knowledge otherwise beyond my reach, it also turns out to have been enormously productive – for me and many, many people around me" Thank you Tim Winton for supporting the call to repeal the JRG policy.

Here is the petition link: www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

It's really time for the ill-named Job-Ready Graduates policy to go. It is demonstrably poor policy, failing to meet its own (dubious) objectives and driving more rather than less educational inequality, in direct contravention of this government's stated priorities.

Signed. An arts degree gave me everything I would have missed out on if I had studied anything else

I urge every Australian scholar, and every Australian citizen concerned about the future of our public universities, to sign this petition initiated by the Australian Historical Association.

A petition to repeal the Job-Ready Graduates Policy is now available. Please sign and share widely. Our communities need humanities graduates. openpetition.org/!zjmdn #highered #auspol #petition #history #AcademicSky

Wow! Have a scroll through the names on this list #auspol

“If Labor won’t act to defend equity in education, what is the point of them – I mean, what do they really stand for?” Tim Winton “Only thing stopping labor from doing labor things is… labor” Australia Institute #auspol

A thread you can direct some action to this Monday morning. The damage the policy has done, and the mindset it encourages, is significant and ongoing. An Arts degree is good for so much more than getting a job (which it also does, contrary to popular mythology).

Total hypocrisy for the Albanese govt to pat themselves on the back for cancelling 20% of student debt, while leaving in place the Scott Morrison policies of absurdly high uni fees for humanities subjects. #auspol

Please sign this open letter urging the Federal Government to remove unrealistic assumptions about ‘job-ready’ graduates from the future vision of Australia, as well as onerous fees on students who want to study all-important Arts degrees. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

More than 100 high-profile and distinguished Australians -and BA graduates- have signed the @austhistassoc.bsky.social open letter calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates: a policy that punishes humanities students with life-changing debts: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Read about the Open Letter to @albomp.bsky.social calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates, signed by over 100 distinguished contributors to Australian life, each with a Bachelor of Arts. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Job-Ready Graduates attacks the arts and humanities and presents an often insurmountable obstacle for those looking to undertake further study study. Follow the link for an Open Letter to @albomp.bsky.social calling for the repeal of JRG, and sign our petition. linktr.ee/aushistorica...

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Congratulations to AMHN member Ebony Nilsson, winner of the Marilyn Lake Prize for Australian Transnational History 🥳🥂