So, what's the Libspill clock looking like? How many seconds from midnight? And will be get a Libsplit??? #auspol

#BREAKING 🚨 Andrew Hastie has quit the Shadow Cabinet, saying Sussan Ley "has made it clear that the shadow home affairs minister won't lead the Coalition's response to immigration matters or develop immigration policy" Hastie says Ley "deserves the opportunity to lead"

Small update on the tracker today, looking at a new policy from an independent for Murray Bridge's hospital. Imo, these small updates about candidates who won't get mainstream news time are the bread and butter of the tracker! #saparli anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2025/08/sout...

Decided to finalise my votes as well. I've got some fiction from my childhood, some historical books that I think are excellent/mean alot to me, and also a couple bits of fiction that hit hard (shocked Didion didn't even make the long list at all).

New SA politics tracker update is out! This time, I'm letting myself get excited over the potential for the 2026 state election to be a public transport election, even if I know it won't be in the end. #saparli #auspol anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2025/08/sout...

It's Brisbane City Council's 100th birthday today so to celebrate I looked at its elected constitution. And in that time, the number of Councillors has barely changed. Brisbane's population has grown by 575% since 1924 but the number of elected representatives have only grown by 77%.

Caught a photo of of the Adelaide Uni merger as I walked to my office. Nexus 10 losing its University of Adelaide signage, in preparation for the new one. The merger only gets closer by the day. #southaustralia

Somehow, History returned...

#PhD research callout! I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form. forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb Ethics approval: H16788 Please share!

In response to an error-riddled op-ed from George Brandis yesterday, I’ve written a post about who would benefit from an expanded parliament. www.tallyroom.com.au/62130

Woke up today to see Joe Hildebrand (of the Daily Telegraph) labelling Tom Koutsantonis as Labor's 'saviour' for being pro-business, "not beholden to extreme climate ideology", "devoutly religious and conservative", and very, very anti-woke. The SA Labor is having a week, isnt it. #saparli #auspol

I'm voting in UQ's Senate election today for the three alumni seats and it's a masterclass in terrible electoral design. For one it uses the terrible perversion that is the FPTP method of election multiple members in a seat.

@anthonyzougras.bsky.social is worth a follow if South Aussies are interested in the local election scene. His stats are interesting.

New SA politics tracker update is out. Nothing big this week, but I talk about Labor outright calling themselves a 'centrist' 'pro-business' party, as well as a few other drips and draps. #saparli #auspol anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2025/08/sout...

With Mali also talking about his issues with woke ideologies (and anti-woke ideology tbf) and how anti-gas politicians are 'eco-purists', it seems like the SA Labor party is taking a concentrated move Right through the centre. Interesting with the election coming to say the least. #saparli #auspol

NEW PARTY ALERT (SA 2026 ELECTION)! The Australian Citizens Party have applied for registration in SA. They literally just made the deadline by the skin of their teeth. As such, I've updated the party tracker with them. #saparli #auspol anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2025/08/sout...

I've updated my candidate tracker once more, removing Susan Close and Stephen Mullighan from their seats and adding two new candidates, Jessica Nies (Legalise Cannabis) and Mark Neugebauer (Independent), to the Legislative Council. See below for details. #saparli #auspol

It won't make the headlines, but Flinders (as per the article) is consulting on whether to dismantle its college of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, meaning neither university in South Australia would have one. 'Lovely' news to hear this morning. #history 🗃️ #saparli

New update on the tracker, talking about the Liberals promising 50c fares, how the Greens did it first, and how its the first big mistake by SA Labor in a while to not match the promise. #auspol #saparli anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2025/08/sout...

I've updated the SA politics tracker with the new cabinet ministers, alongside my thoughts. Abit of a quick update, but a good one for keeping track of changes (as is the point of the tracker aha). #auspol #saparli anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2025/08/sout...

I've updated the tracker once more, this time with Susan Close and Stephen Mullighan's retirement, as well as Sarah Game's anti-abortion push. As always, I've linked relevant articles and news clips for your convinence! #auspoL #saparli anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2025/08/sout...

Big news coming out of SA today, Peter Malinauskas has announced that Deputy Premier Susan Close and Treasurer Stephen Mullighan will not be recontesting the 2026 state election. I've attached the announcement below, and will update the tracker with my thoughts, but this is big. #auspol #saparli

Holy shit, excellent news

SA Libs have a talent pool with the depth of the residue at the bottom of a kitchen sink after you rinse a plate

So, it looks like we now have a logo for Sarah Game's Fair Go for Australians party. And its... not the worst, however, it's also pretty derivative. It's either a mashup of Labor and Australia's Voice's logos, or a variant of the UWU logo. Way too similar to them at the very least. #auspol #saparli

Frank Pangallo has just admitted to using AI to come up with sources for his claims that SA's desalination plant has caused the algal bloom, though he says it was still a mistake. I've updated the tracker with this AIGate! #auspol #saparli anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2025/08/sout...

This was a really important episode to finish. When I started this podcast, the idea of getting to Federation (which I naively thought would only take 30 episodes) was still a pipedream. Through the last 94 episodes, I've gotten to overview Australian history in a way that brings me joy. #history 🗃️

kevinbonham.blogspot.com/2025/09/poll... Poll Roundup: Liberal Crisis As Honeymoon 2.0 Rumbles On My cross-poll estimate 56.3 to ALP (+1 since election and not changing quickly)

Today's blog post is a bit niche, but it's important. It seems like federal redistribution maps are drawn with too much consideration of not moving voters, and they are doing it more than they did in the past. #auspol

Australian shitposters need, nay deserve, a new season of #libspill and all buttons must be pressed to On forthwith

Long-time Pauline Hanson advisor Sean Bell has been named as One Nation's nominee to replace Warwick Stacey in the Senate, subject to the usual rubber-stamp approval by the NSW Parliament. www.onenation.org.au/sean-bell-to...

Lol, lmao even. If Hastie actually intends to follow through with this threat, the Libs will destroy themselves. Either they will drop net zero, losing Moderate members and many voters, or not do so and lost most of their right-wing members. Either way, net zero may be the end of the Libs. #auspol

Very excited that my new article with @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social has been published open access in @historicaljnl.bsky.social 'Transnational Whiteness and the Elite Backlash to Reforming the Australian Immigration Control System in the 1950s and 1960s' www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

They’ve been published for quite a while but it’s behind a paywall. I’ll unlock it in the new year. I published it the day I unlocked my federal guide www.tallyroom.com.au/59891

Statement from 6 News.

I've also done abit of a dive and found 4 more candidates to be added. This includes Legalise Cannabis' first candidate, Jeff Knipe for Chaffey, and three independents, Lou Nicholson, Airlie Keen, and Matt Schutlz. I'll put some info on them below. #saparli #auspol

The Liberals have put forward their 6 candidates for the Legislative Council, and so I have updated the tracker to give you some idea of who these candidates are. In addition, I've updated the spreadsheet with them as well! #saparli #auspol anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2025/08/sout...

A new update for the parties tracker! The SA Socialists have, finally, applied for registration, and as such move up from 'expected' to 'pending'. No other changes today, and I doubt we'll see many more from here on out. #saparli #auspol anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2025/08/sout...

Found another one of these, this time in the 11 November 1932 issue of the 'South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus'. To be fair to these guys, L. Hawken was verbally insulted days prior about being a New Guardsmen, so I have to assume that caused them to do this. #history 🗃️

An exciting new campaign coming out of South Australia about drafting a 10 year state charter for democratic renewal, led by some former senior public servants and leading policy and legal academics. These are exactly the kind of people who should be leading a similar campaign here in Queensland!

Absolutely hilarious stuff happening over at the Coalition. I wonder if Price tries her hardest to crawl back to the Nationals? #auspol

And now I think I've found perhaps the most insane political candidate in any Australian state election. Harry Meatheringham, independent for Annadale, wanted to deport the Governor, make Archbishop Kelly 'King of Australia', and give double dole to women/children and nothing for men. #history 🗃️

I just found something hilarious in the Labor Daily from April 1932. Some person, a Carden V Dewhurst, took out ad space to state that they were not part of the New Guard. I really wonder what sequence of events made them feel the need to state that in such a weird place? #history 🗃️

Short update on the tracker today, talking about the Dry Creek golf course row that really is meaningless but showcases how 'bad' the Liberals are at politics right now and how Labor is 'running circles' around them in SA. #saparli #auspol anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2025/08/sout...

Bunch of updates for the tracker today. Sarah Game restarting the abortion debate in SA, Alex Antic throwing out Nazi conspiracies, Mark Aldridge preparing more Marches, and Nicolle Flint returning once again, it's all happening. #saparlli #auspol anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2025/08/sout...

On the topic of the Eureka flag and the Australian far right, I found this in the journal of the National Front of Australia from 1979. While other groups were invoking the legacy of the Eureka Stockade at the time, the NFA denounced it as 'treachery' and the Eureka flag called a 'badge of treason'.

Melbourne Uni needs to explain this bullshit. This is destroying critical cultural infrastructure. Unimelb axing Meanjin, ANU scuttling the Australian National Dictionary Centre, and then universities wonder why they can’t seem to exert any influence over the national discourse.

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

Hey pocket friends. Just a heads up that if I'm suddenly blanking you after December, it's not you, it's my government.