The last time I heard anything about Graham Richardson was how he was fighting against the inclusion of girls at Cranbrook- one of Australia’s most expensive & exclusive schools and the place he sent his son. Such a Labor man

A rich tribute to Ali Kazak who fought so hard for a Free Palestine, linking it to and in tandem with others, esp First Nations johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social reviews ‘Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism, and the Archive’, by Anthea Taylor Published by Routledge tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

School of Humanities & Languages #unsw is hiring TWO postdoctoral fellows in history! 2 years fixed term, open to different specialisations. Deadline is Nov 2 external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

I am so happy to announce that my first peer-reviewed research paper is finally out! It is open access, so please have a read and let me know your thoughts! Thank you so much to the lovely people at Australian Feminist Studies. doi.org/10.1080/0816... #AcademicSky #FeministSky #queeracademia

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.”

With thanks to @aunz.theconversation.com for encouraging me to write about two extraordinary memoirs theconversation.com/friday-essay...

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Diana Buttu, Inès Abdel Razek, and Yara Hawari discuss what 'does it mean to recognize a Palestinian state, on paper, while leaving intact the structures of occupation, apartheid, and the genocidal regime that sustains them?' - a must-read explainer al-shabaka.org/roundtables/...

New review from me of 'Sweet Nothings' by Madison Griffiths for @insidestory.bsky.social inside.org.au/a-curiosity-...

It should not be possible to be this wrong

Terrific piece by @shakirahussein.bsky.social , full of grab quotes, but best read the whole thing. www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/15/i...

Javier Bardem at the #Emmys: "Here I am today denouncing the genocide in Gaza... Free Palestine!" (via @Variety)

⚡️Hannah Einbinder on saying "Free Palestine" in her Emmys acceptance speech: "It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture…is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state."

Melbourne poet Pi-O performs a poem at the Save Meanjin rally this morning

People in Melbourne, get along to the rally at 9am tomorrow (Thursday 11 September) on the footpath outside Melbourne University Press (715 Swanston Street, Carlton) to demand that Meanjin be saved. (I'll be there in spirit)

Finally upgraded to a paid sub to @cormacmccafe.bsky.social's Yeah Nah substack after reading this take-no-prisoners rant about the murder of Meanjin. Meanjin’s Murder is Bullshit and Shameful open.substack.com/pub/yeahnah/...

I wrote for Crikey about the decision to shut Meanjin down - and to sever a connection to a hopeful progressive vision of Australian culture

The final article from our special section of @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social is out! Important work from Catherine Kevin. Towards a history of reproductive coercion and abuse in mid-twentieth century Australia www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The government and public institutions, along with traditional media companies, have totally abandoned arts journalism. Surely there some non-Zionist arts patrons who understand the importance of this stuff. Get in touch!! Would love to make arts and culture the next pillar of what we are building!

Is your Mayor at this summit? Will they come back and ban the wearing of the keffiyeh? Has the envoy against antisemitism said anything about neo-Nazis yet? www.deepcutnews.com/p/watermelon...

Please sign this very pointed Open Letter to the VC of Melbourne University about the closure of Meanjin. openletter.earth/an-open-lett...

Since our very first issue Meanjin and Overland have been comrades, mates, rivals, and drinking buddies. The UMP board’s decision is a shockingly myopic act of cultural vandalism which will grievously harm the Australian literary community.

What’s the real reason it’s being shut down? It sure ain’t a couple of hundred thousand dollars. Did the university council not like what it had been publishing, per chance? This was one of the handful of publications in Aus that published Randa Abdel-Fattah or Max Kaiser.

Meanjin Journal is 85 years old; older than the Sydney Opera House. Closing it down is cultural vandalism of the highest order, roughly equivalent to demolishing the above mentioned opera house. I am disgusted @meanjin.bsky.social

This sucks. One of Australia's richest universities has shut down a priceless cultural platform. Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

A man that split a woman's head open yesterday, for asking them to just please leave, walked up to a Woman Premier and threatened them and he is still walking around. A 11 year old Aboriginal girl has been in an adult jail for 4 months for shoplifting.

Angry men like Thomas Sewell and Dezy Freeman are often at the heart of violent events, as well as the family violence that happens behind closed doors. But as a society, we tend to tolerate angry white men as "good guys having a bad day". Nothing will change until we drop this attitude.

nurturing feminist histories in precarious times: founding stories, forging communities, feminist futures (aka Lilith 40th anniversary 🎉) Call for Papers: Deadline extended to Monday 8 September www.auswhn.com.au/awhn-confere...

Excuse the dodgy photography but worth enlarging to read this paywalled article by Richard Tognetti on what 'future proofing' & 'integration' really mean when it comes to higher ed

The Australian Women's History Network supports our members' truth-telling about Palestine. We are proud to be a scholarly organisation that speaks out against settler colonialism and genocide.

Please sign and share this petition for ANU Council to: 🛑Stop forced redundancies 🛑Stop proposed school/center closures and amalgamations 🛑Sack the Chancellor and VC It’s open not only to students and staff but also to all members of the broader ANU community. nteu.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT...

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...

Thanks to @michellearrow.bsky.social , @frankbongiorno.bsky.social and Anna Clark for bringing solutions to the higher ed crisis - as teachers and researchers, not consultants theconversation.com/universities...

Palestinian children who have lost parents were overcome with emotion as they graduated in a ceremony at Gaza's al-Wafaa Orphan Village. The UN says Israel has damaged 97% of educational facilities in the besieged enclave.

There is clearly a coordinated campaign to defame and intimidate Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah. Solidarity with all the writers standing up to these contemptible attacks on free speech and public discourse. A shame on management at my alma mater Latrobe Uni for engaging in such shameful conduct.

5A claimed Abdel-Fattah posed "a direct threat to the Jewish community", but "suggested the Festival could balance" her presence by including a rep from a "mainstream Jewish Zionist organisation on the same panel".' - a panel on her own novel 'Discipline' A must read from @deepcutnews.bsky.social

Well there you go. Bendigo Writers Festival has been absolutely played, forced to do the dirty work of lobbyists by their sponsor. When these threats come knocking, academic institutions should be doing everything to protect and defend this country’s cultural events, not become Israel’s enforcer.

RIP David Stratton, thanks for everything. Here's one of the most memorable David- Margaret disagreements - I was definitely on Team David youtu.be/FU5I7pKLy44

If you haven't already signed the petition to govt to repeal the Jobs Ready Graduate policy please do! Arts degrees should be accessible to all & not burden students with huge debt. The ALP promised they would reverse the Morrison-era policy, but seems they need a push. openpetition.org/!repealjrg

We are so close to reaching our target of 2500 signatures on this petition calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates! If you care about equity in higher education and want the BA to be affordable and accessible for *all* students, please sign! www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

Free #freepalestine! 🇵🇸 Thank you Sydney for turning out in huge numbers, on a wet and cold day, to demand an end to genocide now. #marchforgaza #marchforhumanity

Open access! @anncurthoys.bsky.social from our forum on DV history in @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social Full article: Coercive control, financial abuse, and reproductive coercion and abuse in a settler colony: Western Australia, 1860–1900 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Labor's bill to cut HECS debts by 20%, which passed this morning, leaves unchanged the structural inequalities built into tertiary education through Job-Ready Graduates. Sign our petition calling for the repeal of this destructive and unfair policy here: www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

In our latest #VIDAblog, prominent LGBTQIA+ activist Bill Rutkin (OAM) and contributing editor Michael Stockwell explore how homosexual men living in Queensland during the Bjelke-Petersen era used lavender language to circumvent public and political vilification ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/camp-na...

It baffles me that @australianlabor.bsky.social wants to hang this failed, unfair policy around its neck, when they could condemn it as a folly of the unpopular Morrison government and ditch it. Sign our petition to urge them to abolish it now! www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

Excellent piece by Caitlin Macdonald on the open letter to abolish Job-Ready graduates. @aunz.theconversation.com Caitlin argues without the humanities, and the tools to think deeply, imagine ethically & reason clearly, we risk leaving students 'soul-starved'. theconversation.com/top-australi...

One of the most prominent scholars of historical memory in the field of Jewish Studies, who teaches at Columbia, fears she will no longer be able to teach Hannah Arendt with the new federal government control over the university: apnews.com/article/colu...

Migration and Health Histories - A History and Area Studies Workshop - this Friday August 1 at UNSW, from 12:30-4:30pm - details and registration at the link below. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/migration-...