Lost to time when I nuked my Twitter feed: a thread of highly emotional reflective letters between Gough Whitlam and Tom Uren. Someone's gotta do a history of emotions / masculinity PhD on that correspondence

Some of you may be interested in this symposium on 'truth-telling' (in its many guises) being held at the University of Melbourne this week. Students and mob can attend for free, Unimelb staff get a 20% discount, and unwaged scholars get a 75% discount. I will be there for some of Friday's sessions!

I just remembered I submitted *two* chapters for collections last year, and I have no idea what's happening to them (if anything) 😑 The vagaries of publishing are rough enough for humans, but for us snails it's additionally brutal 🐌

And while you’re stocking up on Lauren’s book, you can also get mine!

While you're stocking up on Evan's work, technically you can also still get my book www.routledge.com/Milton-Keyne... And also, a great book I got to edit early this year: www.routledge.com/The-Liberal-...

Anne Twomey is turning into a YouTube machine with her series on the dismissal of the Whitlam government—and now she's promising "a special video in a unique location" for the 50th anniversary on Tuesday. Constitutional and political history fans lesssgoooooo

The phase immediately after recovering from the worst of a migraine is when I write the most nonsense; I know this, and yet every time my optimism emerges out of a sea of delirium

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A new FOI into the Deloitte nonsense has revealed: -there were MORE AI errors in the Deloitte report than previously admitted -DEWR knew about this for weeks & did nothing -DEWR's Secretary lied in Estimates, when saying Deloitte never apologised to her archive.is/F8qtG#select...

Huge result for now. Rapid response starting last Thursday to establish a united front of community and civil society organisations. Gonna be much tougher for them to get this through from here 👍

Disability groups have released a statement: "We are deeply concerned that communities traditionally over-policed & disadvantaged, including First Nations people with disability, would be at heightened risk" The whole statement is well worth reading. Ty @amyremeikis.bsky.social for reporting.

As well as the Law Council of Australia, more disability peak bodies have come out to oppose the sudden introduction of new powers for police & ministers to cancel social security for people accused of a serious offence.

Another world is possible, if we fight for it

Me in about ten group chats:

“In the wake of robodebt @albomp.bsky.social promised accountability, compassion & reform... If Labor wants to restore trust, it must scrap this amendment. Welfare policy should be grounded in fairness... it should never, ever be used as a proxy for criminal justice.” @zoewundenberg.bsky.social

wild 'both sidesing' of a deeply terrible bit of legislation - of course the police think more powers are a good idea. that does not mean that is true www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

48 years ago today (4 November 1977), the New Statesman published this article about divisions in the Communist Party of Great Britain. It is the first written use that I have found of the term ‘tankie’ to describe someone who (uncritically) supported the Soviet Union.

this piece is infuriating. disabled people are being paid a few dollars an hour - this has to change, yet the focus here is on well paid non-disabled people, pontificating about things that are not true. brief 🧵

If you've considered getting a paid subscription to our newsletter, now would be a really helpful time. On my end, seasonal service work has ended and there is no new work to be found. Our next piece is about 2.5 weeks away. Our last piece was our most read yet. buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archi...

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I want to book £20k’s worth of projects for my team between now and mid December—that’s actually only 10 projects at our average-ish spend of £2k per project, which gets you high-quality, research-specialist transcription support for 14 x 1-hour 1-2-1 interviews. Qualitative researchers, say hi 👋🏻

Even better, every one hour of audio we transcribe creates around EIGHT hours of fairly paid flexible remote work for our majority disabled freelancers, because I really mean it when I say FUCK AI, and FUCK ABLEISM

While this is absolutely true, some of us are a different brand of insufferable where we mumble that it is in fact Beltane in the southern hemisphere not Samhain, however it's also quite fun to fuse the two sabbats into a twice-yearly fire/vegetable/spooky transitional melange

As we come to the end of our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' project, we're delighted to invite you to 'Accessing Archives and Collections: Disability, Neurodivergence, Chronic Illness' - a free online symposium on 17th and 18th November. 1/n

We've teamed up with @amfoster.bsky.social's brilliant 'Accessible Pasts, Equitable Future' project for a TWO day event (17-18 Nov) on archives, accessibility, neurodivergence and disability with some fantastic speakers. Registration link in previous tweet, programme below.

If you missed Emerge Australia’s Action Forum at Parliament House today, you can read the thread below. #mecfs #longCOVID

Evergreen post (yet again)

New literature review from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet says the government is "manifesting" stigma via the mutual obligations system 🤷 www.pmc.gov.au/news/stigma-...

Courtesy of the intrepid @bluntshovels.bsky.social , this ARC Discovery project sounds thrilling: "aims to uncover the lived experience of disability in Australian families ...a new understanding of disability as an integral aspect of the Australian story, rather than a minority experience."

"Whatever you make of the Mutual Obligations system, I think it has to be said that the obligation on the part of the government — that is, to act lawfully — is not being met in this instance" - christopherrudge.bsky.social

My new website is live! It's a work in progress, with lots I still want to do, but after many years my last site became completely non-functional so this is the first step: mikejonesonline.com #archives #history #historian #consultant #GLAM #academia #website

In a world where we still have not eliminated the belief that some are born disposable, to seek a technology that might reinforce it is more than reckless; it is cruel. It grows from a mindset that possession is more important than creation and cooperation is a concession only when dominance fails.

The risible wages are well-known in the wider field of the library, museum, gallery and archive world. I’d like to think public opinion is with the people who make the place click day-in-day-out; they deserve better. Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!

Every time I log onto LinkedIn I try to steel myself, thinking today is the day that I'm going to be a Grown-Up™ and set it up properly, and then after thirty seconds I have to flee

They have disabilities, pensions and get little support. They’re also among thousands rejected by the NDIS each year

A reminder that we're collecting books, chapters, and journal articles by non-TT historians for publication in our year-end lists. Anything with a 2025 pub date is eligible and you can submit for your friends/colleagues! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

"[The Deloitte AI scandal] is such important story, because of how serious the underlying issue is" "Is [the government] paying hundreds of thousands of recipients of welfare correctly or is it illegally docking their payments?" good gear from ‪‪@paulkarp.bsky.social‬ www.afr.com/podcast/the-...

The office of Mark Butler MP - the Minister for Disability - isn’t accessible. Good on Shane Hryhorec for filming this and taking Butler to task vt.tiktok.com/ZSUp2HEgk/

It’s #openaccess week and I’m very proud that my new book will be published OA on @manifoldscholar.bsky.social thanks to a Mellon grant and the wonderful people at @foxcenteremory.bsky.social and @ecds-emory.bsky.social You can preview here: jimcrowintheasylum.com

Cultural histories I would pay good money for: the rise and fall of "hipster PDA" / early Moleskine culture, 2005-2013 And the long tail of analogue-as-luxury-productivity marketing of refashioned 20th century business ephemera

My super modern regulatory plan is that any entity named for a thing from Tolkien has to publicly explain why Tolkien wouldn’t immediately throw it into Mount Doom

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couple of great articles that look at disability lived experience and expertise - what is it, why is it important, and how can we value and promote these skills? bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

On 23 October, ASU members across Australia will unite for a National Day of Action — rallying outside Australian Industry Group (AIG) offices to oppose extreme pay cut proposals targeting the disability and community services sector www.asu.org.au/ASU_NSW/News...

Website chronicles five decades of Disability Arts in Australia www.qut.edu.au/news?id=202110 [Image of Professor Bree Hadley]

We have launched the Disability Arts History Australia website! -Visit the Disability Arts History Australia website at: disabilityartshistoryaustralia.net -Visit the Padlet to create a post with information for the Timeline about a person, event, and/or organisation padlet.com/bree_hadley/...

It's ten years ago this month that I made the UniMelb meme pages because it turns out a week 10 lecture on theories of neoliberal urbanism wasn't a big drawcard when studio assignments were due that week

quote from @jeremypoxon.bsky.social: 'gotta give it to Hendo' [Ronald Henderson]

I don’t think a long book is even primarily about plot, or character, or any of the patterned information on its pages. A long book is practicing over time a way of being in the world. Reading even a very good summary is not the same as giving over some portion of your own life to that practice.