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Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life-changing

Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life-changing
29.07.2025 8

Pearls and Irritations

Caitlin Macdonald

Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing

Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing

Tim Winton, Helen Garner and Peter Garrett are just a few of the high-profile signatories to an open letter against Job-Ready Graduates – and for...

28.07.2025 20

The Conversation

Caitlin Macdonald

‘Not a saint’: Florence Nightingale, heroic founder of modern nursing, is humanised in a new novel

Laura Elvery’s novel, Nightingale, invites us to see the legendary nurse not as a symbol, but as a person shaped by illness, desire, pain and time.

28.05.2025 10

The Conversation

Caitlin Macdonald

‘Primal and indifferent’: a puma prowls Tasmania’s forests in Robbie Arnott’s wild eco-Western

Robbie Arnott’s fourth novel, Dusk, opens with a nod to a persistent and almost comical rumour that circulates in Australian folklore: the tale of...

07.10.2024 5

The Conversation

Caitlin Macdonald