16 July 2025 - CHASS Media Release
There is a national crisis in humanities, arts and social sciences (HASS) in Australian universities. Cuts to staff, programs, courses, centres and disciplines endanger Australia’s national HASS capability. Whole areas of human understanding and meaning-making are for the chopping block, cutting off our students from opportunities for learning and isolating Australia from key global conversations. Budget cuts to HASS can no longer be regarded as a matter for individual universities.
Undermining HASS weakens our nation: HASS is widely recognised as critical to building citizenship, by fostering creative and critical thinkers whose skills are valued by employers across government and non-government sectors. Furthermore, our national research capabilities in HASS play a key role in grappling with issues as diverse as climate change, housing provision, social cohesion, and national and international security.
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