Across
- 3. October-based reasons for a rager (9)
- 6. Employment status discussed more than achieved for the '26 grads (7)
- 9. Restructure process whose acronym is also something looksmaxxers aspire to (9,2,10)
- 10. First name of a recently retired minister and also my favourite flower (4)
- 12. Make something even less clear, with additional words (9)
- 16. Uses more water and energy than all of us combined, very controversial workplace topic (4,6)
- 18. Critically endangered Victorian bird species sharing a name with a billionaire singer-songwriter whose recent music has divided fans (5,6)
- 19. Some managers seem totally fine with this and others not; please just let me learn and develop! (10)
- 20. A delicious Thai entrée you might purchase with your friends' leftover dinner budget (7)
- 21. Avian deployment reasons (4,3)
Down
- 1. The Wurundjeri season we're about to leave behind as the weather warms (8)
- 2. A term used when people would rather discuss something in private, but usually still online (4,4,7)
- 4. Victoria's marine emblem (6,8)
- 5. Basically an underpaid VPS 3 (8)
- 7. Where current minister Ben Carroll was born (7,4)
- 8. The collective knowledge bank for when you have a question (6,5)
- 11. Location of a recent grad field trip (7,4)
- 13. Sharing ideas across teams, branches and disciplines (5,11)
- 14. National conversation topic since approximately forever; always going up, up, up (4,2,6)
- 15. A type of mushroom from a famous Victorian case (5,3)
- 17. October birthstone and iconic Australian gemstone (4)
- 18. Winners of this year's World Cup (5)