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Aside from any of the obvious points, the Jobs Ready Graduates Scheme that ushered this into being and continues to be is a great illustration of the Ratchet Effect in politics, where the establishment right ruins something, and the establishment left does nothing to fix it when they gain power

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com

One in four humanities students will take more than 25 years to fully repay their student loans because of Morrison government changes to university fees, newly public Treasury modelling reveals. Reporting by Krishani Dhanji. Read the full story. 🔗👉 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

6/5/26, 5:40 am12 reposts25 likes

Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝)

@fletch.online

6 May

One of the annoying things about growing up in a safe Labor area (Wollongong) was being actively punished when the Libs were in power, then mostly ignored when Labor were in. Gotta catch them swing voters! 😒

Fletcher Thompson (🔬+🐝)

@fletch.online

6 May

E.G. Libs sold off Port Kembla on a 99 yr private lease to fund the giant corporate money pit that is WestConnex: a huge toll road built exclusively to buy votes in Western Sydney (and kill off non-tolled roads). Labor subsequently… talked about a wind farm, maybe. Someday.

BURD

@tezamondo.bsky.social

6 May

i remember when i was first shown this picture and it fucked me up

adamruch.bsky.social

@adamruch.bsky.social

6 May

This is misleading since international Adam skewed the results--by taking off for almost 10 years and pausing his repayments on his Arts degree which he STILL hasn't paid off--and shouldn't have been included.