Our industry needs to fight harder against the discriminatory uni fee clusterf*ck
Chris Savage, campaign director of the Australian Communications Advocacy Group, argues the industry needs to take an urgent stand to stop a critical pathway for talent being destroyed by legislation that will hamper the industry for decades.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men and women to do nothing.”― Edmund Burke
Evil is a subjective word, but the Federal Government’s proposal to raise fees that our industry’s students pay for arts degrees by 113%, while slashing the total funding for key courses by 23%, is just that.
The advertising and communications industry needs to do more, this week, if we have any chance to stop the government doing this evil to the future of our industry, to Australia’s future and, more specifically, to the futures of year 12 students and those coming after them.
