Caitlin Macdonald

Caitlin Macdonald is undertaking a PhD in the School of Art, Communication and English at the University of Sydney. Her doctoral research, which focuses on human and animal relationships and communication in post-2020 Australian fiction, traces and analyses how authors are adapting the conventions and extending the limits of fiction in a context of climate change.

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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

“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,” said Tim Winton this week. “My little arts degree has created jobs and cultural value for over 40 years.”