To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.

FBI directors who were crooks.

‘There is no such thing as adventure , there is no such thing as romance ,there is just trouble and desire’ . Ahh 1990s Indie wisdom from Hal Hartley, Simple Men youtu.be/d9t3C-8ZVTU

***Attention Historians*** Tenure-track job postings in History and History-adjacent fields for September 2025. A thread. I will update the thread over the course of the month. 1/

Every day I think - I get to wake up safely. I get to raise my children and feed my children and care for my children in safety. In Gaza an Australian doctor describes abattoir-like conditions for the Palestinian people. A tough but essential read: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

The fabulous Rachel Franks on Crime and History at The University of Sydney on this sunny Tuesday . A real treat for HSTY1001 students

A new op-ed from me on China's WWII! @asianstudies.org www.asianstudies.org/why-does-chi...

It’s really Spring !!

This looks great. How tourism promotion conflicted with decolonisation in PNG www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Me and Dad. Warsaw 1983.

I just voted for @mrkocnnll.bsky.social's A Thread of Violence top100books.abc.net.au Great book, no favouritism here. And yes, I hit 'Submit' before adding nine more :/ Who've you got? Paging @usyd-sace.bsky.social @sophieloywilson.bsky.social @sea-greeny.bsky.social @freyagrace.bsky.social

The brilliant Zoe Smith from ANU at usyd this week lecturing our students on Feminism and History. Honoured to have her

Dino Buzatti's 'Poem Strip' or 'Poema a Fumetti,' 1st edition 1969 (spied on Abe books). Something I'll buy for myself when I eventually finish my own book. Orpheus & Eurydice but 1960s Milan; the back-alley compromises of post-war economic miracles, stalked by fascist elders who won't stay dead.

Have you noticed how films about the end of the world are more thoughtful than they used to be? Me on a new genre: the "apocalypse, maybe" movie

Thinking of Canberra today and hopeful things will improve at ANU after such awful times. So I had to watch The Hollowmen. "And these are out friends?" "Its nothing personal" www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpuT...

Julie Bishop has to be held accountable. I wonder if she will? Or if she will keep that waterfront office funded by ANU in Perth where, I assume, she meets mining company (sorry 'government') executives. Yearly office rental? $151,424 Staff costs of said office? $257,559 tinyurl.com/yc39u599

www.sydney.edu.au/museum/whats... On today at lunch in rainy Sydney

"On that first afternoon I saw that what had sometimes been described as the arrogance of the plainsmen was no more than their reluctance to recognise any common ground between themselves and others." Gerald Murnane The Plains Sad to be missing this tomorrow slll.cass.anu.edu.au/events/geral...

If Melbourne University Publishing doesn’t want to keep publishing Meanjin, they should hand over the journal to someone worthy of the responsibility. Me in The Conversation theconversation.com/the-decision...

‬⁩@davidpocock.bsky.social says there’s ‘no faith’ in leadership of Genevieve Bell or Julie Bishop. Time for a leadership renew. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Super excited to have Peter Hobbins back at usyd today: “Cold War in the Cockpit.” Brilliant lecture in HSTY1001 looking at airplane black boxes as an archive of the global Cold War

This writing, my god. Kate Holden 🔥

Happy father's Day to my kind-hearted Dad, Kyle, who played me Bob Dylan when I was growing up, stuck with me through happiness and heartbreak 'ain't it hard when you discover that he really wasn't where its at after he took from you everything he could steal?' www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS8-...

Very sad to see another Australian journal go down the drain. I hope the upswell of sentiment this decision has brought about can lead to a rethink by MUP.

So proud of Kristie Flannery for being shortlisted in the general history prize category for the State Library of NSW History Awards. Waiting to find out of the result:

Vale Meanjin. Reading the marvelous @jonpiccini.bsky.social on this magazine as I stare into the void ('stare into the vacuum of his eyes,' as Dylan put it) and mourn the loss of a beautiful thing Emperors in Lilliput as a title has to be up there with the Best Eva in Oz hist. tinyurl.com/532rkzvs

Our 8th 'Studies in North Queensland History' retrospective for @austhistassoc.bsky.social #AHA2025 @jcucase.bsky.social @jcuofficial.bsky.social is @sophieloywilson.bsky.social on "Topsawyers: The Chinese in Cairns 1870-1920", by Cathie R. May: jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2025/09/tops...

Rather buried in here is the extraordinary-in-the-context statement: “The publication recently secured a $2m grant from Creative Australia to fund its next two years of operation”. The plot doth thicken... #Meanjin www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

As Joe B once told Barrack O’B; “This is a big fucking deal.” 👍

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.

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...

youtu.be/_IHaCyX6-Xo Have always liked Grimes. Can’t believe she fell prey to a billionaire drug addict fascist eugenicist with fake hair and Botox. Uhhgg. The oligarchy and its human sacrifices.

I haven’t ventured to my dear friend Sophia St in Sydney’s Surry Hills in a while. When the Pistol Licensing Act of 1927, the local gangs switched to cut-throat razors as their weapons of choice. This exact spot is where the vice queen’s gangs (Tilly Devine & Kate Leigh) fought

SSSHARC Visiting Fellowships 2026 are now open! The Visiting Fellows program supports collaborative research in the humanities and social sciences at the University of Sydney Deadline ⏰ 14 July 2025 Apply here ➡️ shorturl.at/pnqVH @sydney.edu.au @usyd-sace.bsky.social @usyd-humanities.bsky.social

So excited to interview these three historians tonight as part of the 2025 George Arnold Wood Memorial lecture @usyd-humanities.bsky.social @historymatterssyd.bsky.social

Deleted last post on this, because it gave the impression that the parliamentary archive was the only archive. There is the National Archive at the Alele Museum. But it's still terrible to have lost the parliamentary archive. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

events.humanitix.com/2025-wood-me... Tomorrow. Really looking forward to chairing this event featuring three radical historians: André Dao, Shauna Bostock, Katerina Teaiwa

Sydney’s Clovelly Beach is a concrete wonderland. The actual beach is small and attracts seaweed, but the bay, ocean pool and concrete platform is where the action is. This empty dawn scene will change soon as spring arrives in eight days.

Discovering Dionne Brand so late, and on a Sunday afternoon www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

August in Sydney had four times the usual amount of rain, today is forecast to be the start of the lessening of precipitation. Fog in the west, showers leaving the east. Australia isn’t the land of sunshine this winter.

Friday Finnish!!! Aukusti Uotila 1858-1886 Finnish golden age painter. He died of tuberculosis only at 27 and lived many of his years in France. Nuottakota (Boat House) 1884 Oil on canvas 47 cm x 37,5 cm Finnish National Gallery Ateneum, Helsinki Finland