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Treasury modeling reveals Australias student debt crisis, with one in four humanities students facing over twenty-five years to repay loans, and nearly two-thirds graduating with debts exceeding fifty thousand dollars. The Job Ready Graduates program, aimed at steering students towards science, nursing, education, and IT, has backfired, with median repayment for creative arts jumping from fourteen to seventeen years. Critics and university leaders express concern over the unfairness and real-life impacts on graduates. New data shows a rise in graduates leaving with under twenty thousand dollars debt and a seventy percent increase in those with over fifty thousand dollars. Total university debt has swelled by eight hundred million dollars, with the government potentially recouping only half due to weaker repayments from lower earners. The Education Minister admits the schemes failure, and a new commission for reforms is set up, but its not addressing fees head-on, leaving arts degrees at fifty thousand dollars potentially until twenty twenty-eight or later, sparking urgent calls for real change.

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