In 2020, the Morrison government introduced a plan to slash funding to university arts degrees, effectively doubling the cost for students. As a philosophy student, the message was clear: the degree I have spent four years studying is not ‘job relevant’, nor worth investing in for the future.
We live in a paradigm where it is thought philosophy has nothing left to give, where philosophy has been forced to the shameful periphery of public discourse.
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