“The fascists did break down Varoufakis’s door. They did take his father, and countless more, never to be seen again. Now, they are knocking on ours.” My response to Raise Your Soul by @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social in the latest Australian Book Review: www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...

Trump is destroying the rules of international behaviour. Australia can – and must – act now | Allan Behm

As a former Director of Adelaide Writers' Week I am appalled that the Adelaide Festival Board has rescinded Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's invitation to the 2026 AWW, explicitly linking its decision to the shattering crimes in Bondi. A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.

Embroidery by the first UK hunger striking suffragette, Scottish artist Marion Wallace Dunlop (1864-1942) #womensart

Racism is rampant in our newsfeeds, comment sections and online spaces. If you see racism on social media or online, don’t just keep scrolling: take action! Screenshot and report it using the Call It Out mobile or web App, paper or digital forms, or by phone. For more info visit callitout.com.au

Completely unsurprising that the Ley Opposition does not consider anti-LGBTIQ+ hatred (or other forms of prejudice like ableism or misogyny) to be as serious, or worthy of a response, as racial and (some forms of) religious hatred. #auslaw #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Is the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme facilitating modern slavery? @mhharrington.bsky.social speaks to experts, community leaders & ni-Vanuatu former PALM workers in the first episode of this four-part mini-series on the guestworker scheme. #auspol 🎧 theaus.in/4sr1vbV

Precisely. No-one is telling the sotry of pre-Chavez. Nor of the relentless US sanctions on Venezuela; nor of the platforming of Venezuelan wealthy elites complaining.

In 1887, British forces kidnapped & exiled the King of Opobo in today’s Nigeria. British Palm oil traders had persuaded the government that the tariffs he imposed restricted their profits. It was a milestone in the Scramble for Africa and indirect rule by Britain. alanlester.co.uk/blog/antisla...

#OtD 31 Dec 1918 radical doctor, lesbian, @IWW supporter and abortion provider, Marie Equi, was found guilty of sedition in the US for unfurling an anti-war banner. Sentenced to three years in San Quentin prison, she served one and a half. More info: workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/02/e...

Not a non-story, but keep in mind that a month of oral contraceptives usually costs between 20-150 RMB ($3 - $22) and can be bought online without a prescription and delivered free. 10-50 ($1.25 - 7.20)/dose for emergency contraception. And 计划生育 offices seem to still send free pills and condoms.

Climate change will create jobs, but rebuilding what’s been destroyed is not progress, writes co-CEO Richard Denniss in The Point. @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol Read the full op-ed➡️ https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/251203-rebuilding-after-climate-chaos-creates-jobs-but-isnt-economic-progress

Incredibly moving interview with Sydney philosophy professor Peter Slezak, son of Holocaust survivors. “Recognising Palestine was the right thing to do - in fact it was long overdue. How on earth can that be connected to two mass murders who commit an atrocity?”

Suffragette Christmas card from the Women's Social and Political Union, 1909. UK.#Womensart

My first paper on disinformation just published. I argue that disinformation should be understood in pragmatic terms (e.g., changing content to influence choice) not epistemic terms (e.g., inducing inaccurate beliefs). You can view with this link. Spoiler in title. link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

The ambiguous intimacy of the census: women workers sort through forms in the French census office in Paris in 1911 (Gallica, BnF) 🗃️

It’s never too late to support reading. Evidence shows targeted interventions can lift literacy skills for older students too, writes Callula Killingly. #auspol #education #literacy

ATAR scores grab attention, but teachers remain underpaid, overburdened and taken for granted in Australia’s education system, writes Allan Patience. #auspol #education #teachers

It's unfortunately quite tricky to find now in Australia, but Maria Ressa's Seeds of Terror from 2011 has a look at Mindanao and how the area became such a terrible hotspot in the 90s/00s. A very helpful background imo.

Despite the spin, US submarine production is nowhere near its targets – putting Australia’s AUKUS plans, and the promised Virginia class subs, in serious doubt, writes Peter Briggs. #auspol #AUKUS #defence

As 2025 ends, P&I Editor Catriona Jackson reflects on a year shaped by political turmoil, global conflict and the search for real leadership. From Canberra to Gaza to Washington, the stakes could not be higher. @catrionajackso1 #AusPol #GlobalPolitics #PublicInterestJournalism

The latest AUKUS review lands without public release, yet the signals are clear. Australia keeps funding US submarine capacity while gaining no real guarantees on sovereignty or delivery timelines, writes Binoy Kampmark. #AUKUS #AusPol #ForeignPolicy

“Perhaps it is unsurprising, then, that anti-Arab sentiment and xenophobia are not confined to the past, or to Cronulla.” Megan McElhone addresses revisionist histories of the Cronulla Riots, twenty years on.

#OtD 9 Dec 1947 the Rawagede massacre was carried out by Dutch colonial troops in Indonesia, who executed 431 people: nearly every male aged over 15 in the village of Rawagede (now Balongsari). None of the killers were prosecuted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1088...

We're looking for an Election Researcher to help prepare election materials & cover election results. You’ll help manage key databases, produce research materials, and dive into electoral research. This is a unique elections and data role at ABC News Full details: careers.abc.net.au/en/job/50515...

Zhao Leji’s visit should have been about diplomacy and Australia–China relations. Instead, media coverage fixated on security threats and missed the point entirely, writes John Queripel. #China #Australia #Diplomacy #Media #ForeignPolicy

Treating children as adults in the justice system breaches international law and ignores decades of evidence on rehabilitation. Punishment entrenches harm, writes Annette Alexander-Fliegner. #YouthJustice #ChildRights #HumanRights #AusPol #VicPol #CriminalJustice #Rehabilitation

Australian scientists have improved our lives & increased national productivity. So why is the CSIRO being forced to shed staff again? @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social argues that cutting research jobs undermines the government's productivity drive. #auspol @ebonybennett.bsky.social 🎧 theaus.in/3XWDfAg

“The award honors Ms. Hong Haeng, Dr. Choi’s late mother, whose unwavering belief in the transformative power of education inspired the creation of this travel award program” 🫶🙏

“She learned to use ink to slowly cover her reflection in the water, hiding it from every eye, until her skin grew a waterproof shell.” From HER NAME IS A RIVER, our latest #Fridaypoem by Tangqing Zhang. overland.org.au/2025/11/her-...

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