Jennifer Yip, Grains of Conflict: The Struggle for Food in China's Total War, 1937-1945:

Catch @tommcilroy.bsky.social on the ABC’s MediaLand discussing his essay in the latest Meanjin ‘“We shall all have to live with this”: the Canberra press gallery and the Dismissal’ www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... (listen from 8’40”)

Our journalists can still tell sharp, critical, honest stories – but they might want to break free of the editorial obsession with casting China as the eternal antagonist. #auspol #China #News Corp #Racism

Great to see Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han #Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! Great comparison with Hyaeweol Choi’s Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: #Protestant #Modernity in #Colonial-Era Korea: newbooksnetwork.com/good-wife-wi...

In the final hours of our Subscriberthon, our brilliant co-editors Evelyn and Jonathan have an important message for you. Head to overland.org.au/shop or overland.org.au/donate today.

Oooh really looking forward to this press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The arts & humanities, & languages especially, are again under attack, easy scapegoats for problems in HEIs. Nottingham prides itself on being a global university, but without language provision, that is now a problematic boast

“We live in an oligarchy, but with this humidity it feels like a dictatorship.” On Day #5 of Overland’s subscriberthon, we bring you “Force posture agreement”, a new poem by Miroslav Sandev. overland.org.au/2025/11/forc...

Every time I don’t think Auspol can get any stupider, I get proven wrong. A national conversation over whether the PM should apologise for wearing a t-shirt featuring a very popular band that’s been around for decades because of its name, is stupid, stupid, even for us

Bodleian Library, Sassoon Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History for the 2026-2027 academic year. It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.

#OtD 28 Oct 1932 hunger marchers were attacked by police in Hyde Park, London. 3000 unemployed had set off from across the UK in Sep. Met in London by over 100k supporters, they tried to give politicians a petition of over 1 million signatures when attacked

Australian colleagues have been exploring the redirection of British slave-owners capital from the Caribbean into the colonisation of Australia. As Britons ended slavery they intensified the destruction of Indigenous societies. Latest addition from Zoe Laidlaw: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Why on earth has it taken so long to use menstrual blood for diagnosing conditions—like the most obvious one, endometriosis—as well as investigating its generative potential with stem cells? Because “Blokes cringe if you talk about it in the pub,” say experts: www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

@mattgrudnoff.bsky.social writing about how the "for profit" child care model has totally failed. But then we know the for profit model of public services *always* fails, and yet.... thepoint.com.au/news/251028-...

Polio is 99% eradicated — a remarkable global achievement. But the only way we can full get rid of it is by fully funding the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. On World Polio Day, I’m joining those calling on world leaders to close the gap and finish the job. Together, we can end polio for good

“As Albanese once said, this should be the republic’s moment.” Catch me at Canberra Writers Festival today and tomorrow discussing my latest book, When Australia Became a Republic Editorial: Ambition is dead, long live the king www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2025/10/25/a... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

We must name and face our darkness. We must repent. Our wilful blindness and historical amnesia, our refusal to be accountable to the rule of law, our belief that we have a right to use industrial violence to exert our will..@chrislynnhedges #auspol #Gaza

The First Nations hold title of one sort or another to over three-quarters of the land in the north and more over the coastline. When Penny Wong became foreign minister in 2022 she declared that Indigenous rights would inform her policies. Has she told Marles? #auspol

The shortage of teachers in city schools in Australia is the equal sixth largest in the OECD with 36.6% of lower secondary teachers working in schools with a shortage of qualified teachers. #auspol #teachershortage #education

📣 New Podcast! "23 October 1913: Bristol University Suffragette arson" on @Spreaker #bristol #feminist #history

“The government is cherrypicking available science in its attempts to reassure UNESCO enough is being done to address the destruction of World Heritage caused by the salmon industry. "This is simply not the case." -Australia Institute Tasmania Director Eloise Carr #auspol @eloise-carr.bsky.social

Catch Australia Council Chair Wesley Enoch on ABC RN rn talking AusArt Day—it’s today! Donate to your fave org or give to your fave artist if you can, and if that’s not possible for you, it’s just as powerful to talk up the value of the arts in our lives. Go: www.creative.gov.au/ausartdayfaqs

Chinese state media Beijing Daily says ‘failed state’ US is ‘dying from within’ as Beijing drafts next 5-year plan – SCMP

I'm delighted to say that I have been awarded the State Library of NSW's David Scott Mitchell Memorial Fellowship for 2026! My project is titled "Close the Bases: A History of the Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition". Looking forward to getting stuck into the archives next year.

The magnitude, advanced methods and extent of Native American agriculture continues to be vastly underestimated IMHO: scitechdaily.com/archaeologis...

#OtD 20 Oct 1877 this drawing was published in London depicting famine in Bangalore, India. Famine began in 1876, and while around 5.5m Indians starved to death 100,000s of tonnes of food were exported to England with almost no relief. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9318...

“Democracy needs to be honest, it needs to have integrity, it needs to have transparency.” Thank you to Kerri O'Brien for her response to When Australia Became a Republic. My latest book is a conversation-starter on pivotal moments in political and cultural history: www.smh.com.au/culture/book...

#ODT in #ChineseHistory: In 690 CE, Wu Zetian #武則天 (624–705) ascends a palace gate in Luoyang #洛陽 and promulgates the change of the dynastic mandate from #Tang #唐 to #Zhou #周. Thus begins the official reign of #China's only #femaleemperor. #womenrulers #womeninhistory

“We write, we scream, we plead; but it seems our words fall into a void. There are no aid planes, no humanitarian airlifts, no real international movement and no ground efforts to break the siege." War crimes alert as food runs out in el-Fasher, Darfur: www.bbc.com/news/article... #KeepEyesonSudan

🚨 JOBS!!! 🚨 2 lots of jobs advertised in the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra 2.5 FTE positions in War Studies related disciplines - external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53... 1 FTE in Indo-Pacific Studies - external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

The gambling industry is predatory and insidious. I quit the Parliamentary Sports Club a few weeks ago, when I discovered it had registered as a lobbyist group and was sponsored by the gambling peak body. The industry will do anything to wield influence on pollies, and hates being called out.

#OtD 10 Oct 1972 Black sailors from the USS Kitty Hawk in the Philippines during the Vietnam war decided to disrupt a favourite hangout of white sailors in a segregated whites-only area in protest at the beating of a Black sailor the previous night. More: workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/06/e...

🥰 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄. These recent scholarly books reveal how love in China is shaped by political ideals, social inequalities and the shifting ethics of modern life. If you would like to read and review any of these titles for @asiancha.bsky.social, please email [email protected] for further discussion.

Every second Thursday, Hugh White & Sam Roggeveen unpack the major shifts in international politics, and what they mean for Australia and the region in this NEW Aus Foreign Affairs series. 🎧Episode 1: youtube.com/watch?v=EJzf... @anu-asiapacific.bsky.social

🔴 Santos Limited has racked up a 10th straight year of zero corporate tax payments from $48 billion in sales. 🔴 Ichthys LNG Pty Ltd paid zero corporate tax for the 6th year running, from $43 billion in sales. Add your name to make the gas industry pay their fair share > theaus.in/fix_gas_expo...

Coming up this Monday 6 Oct at 1pm (Sydney time) I'll be talking with Peter McPhee about my book which explores the history of children, youth, welfare, criminality, punishment, incarceration etc in France at the turn of the 19th/20th century. All welcome. Register at the link in the original post.

Japan’s eight reigning empresses. Women are currently barred from the Japanese throne. You can read more about them in Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy, out now #womenwhoruledtheworld #japanesehistory #reigningempress #reigningqueen

“Organisations like Per Capita are so critical to the broad policy debate.” The Hon. Jenny Macklin AC Subscribe to the Per Capita newsletter here: percapita.org.au/subscribe/

17th century men teach you how to be a perfect woman… Antique book fair in Amsterdam.

From a US defence expert: the AUKUS Submarine Deal is Dead "The US can’t provide the submarines; the UK can't make up for the shortfall...and Canberra must now face the unpleasant truth that the promises made in 2021 were more fantasy pledges than realistic commitments."

Reminder: The AUKUS deal was supposedly cooked up in the brain of Boris Johnson who wanted to piss off Macron, and so convinced Scott Morrison to drop the French subs deal. $368 billion Australian taxpayer dollars to help the US make submarines that we'll never receive. Turnbull explains why ⤵️

Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths is now out in paperback and it has an evocative new cover! To me, it brings to mind some of René Magritte's paintings from the 1950s and 60s. Thanks to Princeton University Press for the new design.