This young woman photographed using a transistor radio on a train in Sydney's Redfern on 21 April 1960 (photo by Alec Iverson, State Library of NSW)🗃️

Australian screen industry crushed as Universal shutters Matchbox Pictures, with 60 jobs lost Peak screenwriting body says the closure is a reminder industry cannot rely on ‘whims of international studios to keep us afloat’ #AusPol www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

As part of our Best Article Prize announcement, we're featuring articles from the Special Issue on the Nuclear Pacific. Marco de Jong's open access article, '‘Our Pacific Through Native Eyes’: Māori Activism in the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Movement, 1980–5, is available here>

We should be deeply alarmed that the Premier is talking about permanently arming the “Community Security Group”, a Mossad-linked Zionist organisation that runs paramilitary training camps in Israel. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Here's me. "Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children"

📢Call For Papers📢 Sociability & Political life Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements? Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!

A petition in support of the State Library of Victoria, currently facing significant cuts: c.org/Ny9tCp8jRM

Happy to share my new book 'Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War', which will be published by UNSW Press on 1 April 2026.

CFP: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present, a 2 day workshop (15-16 June 2026) 🗃️Please share - and submit an abstract!

If Gough Whitlam hadn’t been dismissed 50 years ago today, he may never have gone on to popularise fax machines and the “smart phone” in these 1989 ads for Voca #vhsrevue #dismissal

Excited to be part of this incredible team writing the first history of grandparenting in Australia! grandparentsaustralia.net

Thanks to Ien Ang and @insidestory.bsky.social for this very thoughtful review of my new book! inside.org.au/screening-mu...

Congratulations to AHA member David Lowe for the publication of his new book, "The Colombo Plan: Development Internationalism in Cold War Asia"! It's available to purchase here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

We would like to extend our congratulations to all the recipients of The State Library of New South Wales 2026 Fellowships including #hcnswmember Dr Mark Dunn and our 2025 Max Kelly Award winner Ruby Ekkel! Check out the full list of recipients via the link below

Straya!!! Albanese, Bowen and Watt helping break the world record. Go ALP.

Really strong story from @newcastleherald.bsky.social about the Hunter Region’s role sending F35 jet fighter weapons parts to Israel for its genocide in Gaza. The F35 regional hub in Williamtown isn’t for Australia’s defence, it’s a US controlled global weapons hub run by the US, for the US

Two History postdocs at UNSW (Sydney) and the net is wide: "open to candidates working on any time period from Ancient History to Contemporary History, any area or region, incl. global and international history, and any methodology, incl. oral history, gender history, history of race and more."

I have a new article out. TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee. academic.oup.com/past/advance...

Thanks @uncommonsenseradio.bsky.social @3rrrfm.bsky.social for a wonderful interview this week about our new book 'Migrants, Television & Australian Stories'. Listen back here from 2hrs19mins: www.rrr.org.au/explore/prog...

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

This woman is amazing, not making her capture & mistreatment the story, keeping all eyes on Gaza and their plight against a genocidal regime. She is the best of us. Our governments around the world must act. Stop the genocide. #FreePalestine

Congratulations to AHA member Geraldine Fela, who last week won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History for her book "Critical Care: Nurses on the frontline of Australia's AIDS crisis" (UNSW Press)! Read more about the winners here: creative.gov.au/news-events/...

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Chris Sidoti, former Human Rights Commissioner, at the National Press Club: “The Genocide Convention not only requires that we not commit genocide - it also requires that we act to prevent genocide.” #npc

Interview about my new book from co-authors @sukhmanikhorana.bsky.social and Kate Darian-Smith on @2ser.bsky.social! www.2ser.com/stories/migr...

I wrote about how I am not buying the narrative that the anthropic AI settlement is good for authors: defector.com/if-the-thiev...

Learned so much from his work. R.I.P.

New from me, @sukhmanikhorana.bsky.social, Sue Turnbull and Kate Darian-Smith with some stories from our new book! @theconversation.com

Melbourne Uni is killing the literary journal Meanjin. It's cultural vandalism. Australian universities are now deeply anti-intellectual places www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

This is the big one. Anyone is welcome to sign, you don't have to be at ANU, you just have to care about higher ed. www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...

ANU and the Search Foundation are offering a PhD with $100,000 top up to complete the final (1970-91) volume of the history of the Communist Party of Australia. 👇

"A “win-win” between the victims of genocide and the perpetrators? He said that. Why not a win-win between the scorched rubble of Hiroshima and the nuclear bomb?"

Brilliant 👏, Vale🙏

Politicians taking a 'head in the sand' approach to climate change is bad enough. Undertaking a detailed national climate risk assessment and withholding it from the public is malicious on an even higher level. This is a crisis. Not something to be politically managed. www.afr.com/policy/energ...

Words have had no effect. Sanctions now. Travel restrictions - against all members of the government and IDF, and their families. Freeze assets and all trade. Kick out diplomats. Enforce ICC findings. Pressure Israel’s active supporters. Anything but this.

Hey ABC - can we stop calling them "settlers", which sounds like a benign homesteading movement. As Israeli human rights groups themselves say, those Israelis trying to displace Palestinians in the #WestBank are terrorists: state-sanctioned terrorists. #StopIsrael www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Check out recent book launch conversation between myself, co-authors @sukhmanikhorana.bsky.social, Sue Turnbull, Kate Darian-Smith and the brilliant Pearl Tan, recorded recently at @gleebooks.bsky.social on ABC Radio National. Thanks @natashamitchell.bsky.social! www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

A thread you can direct some action to this Monday morning. The damage the policy has done, and the mindset it encourages, is significant and ongoing. An Arts degree is good for so much more than getting a job (which it also does, contrary to popular mythology).

Open letter against the adoption of the Australian Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism’s Plan: "These proposed measures have nothing to do with combating antisemitism, and everything to do with limiting and censoring criticism of Israel and stifling freedom of speech on Palestine."

Open letter against the adoption of the Australian Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism’s Plan: Academics against racism overland.org.au/2025/07/open...

Exclusive | The government claimed it had nothing to do with handing $900 million to an Israeli company steeped in the Palestinian genocide. New documents show that's false, writes Bernard Keane.

Finalmente! Ep 1 of Choc-tops & Cassata just dropped today - on how Italians in 1950s-70s Melbourne grabbed the chance to screen films in their own language & saved some buildings along the way tinyurl.com/ny2vxf3v

'Migrants, Television & Australian Stories' is finally here! Thanks to @michellearrow.bsky.social for a great dialogue at a workshop last week, and to @gleebooks.bsky.social for the book launch with Pearl Tan and my brilliant colleagues @sukhmanikhorana.bsky.social Sue Turnbull & Kate Darian-Smith.

This is an incredible graph from @grogsgamut.bsky.social that shows how cooked our tax system is. The Federal Govt gives over $33 bn in tax concessions to the richest 10% through CGTD + super. That's more than 2x the total spend on all govt schools. It's 2x the cost of putting dental in Medicare.

Rather shockingly, this video is no longer on the ABC's website www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/5)

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As every election, worth pointing out that the Greens win 1-2 reps seats despite winning 12% of national vote, while the Nats win 10+ seats on just 4% of natl vote

International students are perhaps the most unfairly attacked demographic in all of Australia. We invite them here. The reason they come is to get an education. Most are incredibly nice people who benefit our country in all sorts of ways. They massively cross-subsidise domestic students.

I mourn for every single person slaughtered in this needless genocide, and I mourn for the souls of those in my own community who have been following Israel down into the moral abyss. Full statement on this shameful saga brought to you by the Israel lobby and gutter journalists at Murdoch 1/2