Pleased to have this out and open access with @jas-jozstudies.bsky.social my great grandfather, Major RJ Donaldson DSO, was one of the Aussie engineers at Brightlingsea so this had a special connection for me

We interrupt your (ir)regularly scheduled programming of JAS 50.2 notices to announce that the #CFP for @intlausstudies.bsky.social conference is out now! Join us at Flinders on 9-12 Feb 2027 to discuss "The Cringing Continent"! Abstracts due: 17 August 2026 For more details: tinyurl.com/4hnn6k8v

50.2 of JAS is out but the cover is too saucy for Bluesky. The cover image is taken from Max Dupain’s Cronulla nudes series. You can see it on our website: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjau20/c... #OzStudies #OzPhotography #Dupain

🚨New issue alert🚨 JAS 50.2 is now available. Featuring a Max Dupain photograph on the cover that has been flagged by Bluesky as sexually explicit. 😳 Wait until they read the article in this issue about foreskins… tinyurl.com/4ncnpapk #OzStudies

This CFP is open for one more week! Get your proposals in by Monday 30 March. #CFP #OzStudies

It's Monday morning and you're writing your to do list for the week. Why not add "write abstract for JAS 50.4 special issue" on that list? #OzStudies #CFP #OzHist #OzLit #humanities

To celebrate our 50th volume, JAS invites you to contribute to a special issue on (the Journal of) Australian Studies at 50. Please see the CFP below for details - and please circulate it far and wide! @intlausstudies.bsky.social #CFP #OzStudies #OzLit #OzHist #auspol #AustralianStudies

Last but not least, a thread of the book reviews published in 49.4. If you have a book you would like us to review, please contact out reviews editors @jonpiccini.bsky.social and Nycole Prowse.

Introducing the papers in 49.4: Hill examines the more-than human elements of Behrouz #Boochani's prison writing as an important part of his "practices of freedom". #OzStudies #immigration #ManusIsland #OpenAccess tinyurl.com/2s3k5dke

🚨JAS 49.4 now available 🚨 JAS editors: "the intellectual mission of #Meanjin lives on beyond its pages, and we commit JAS to similarly challenging and extending the nation’s mental life." Thank you to @beneltham.bsky.social for permission to use the cover image. tinyurl.com/yphjfn38 #OzStudies

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...

Last but not least, a thread of the book reviews published in 49.3. Remember, if you would like your book reviewed, please contact our reviews editor @jonpiccini.bsky.social. 🧵 1/5

And in the final paper of the deserts special section for 49.3, guest editor Reger explores Australian deserts as a setting for Australian science fiction. #SciFi #deserts #OzStudies #AusLit #ecocriticism tinyurl.com/3yb5u3pv

In the second article in the Australian desert special, @ruthamorgan.bsky.social examines Australia's response to the UNESCO agenda on research in "arid zones". #deserts #CSIRO #UNESCO #science #OpenAccess #OzStudies #OzHist tinyurl.com/m4wcn734

In 49.3's desert special section, Morton explores the various meanings that have been inscribed across the desert by settler Australians, then changed by a new appreciation of Aboriginal art. #OzStudies #OpenAccess #desert #Australia #AboriginalArt tinyurl.com/388x8xcn

Introducing the special section in 49.3 on "Humanities in the Australian Desert" guest edited by Andrea Gaynor and Gary Reger. #OzDeserts #deserts #OzStudies #OpenAccess #humanities tinyurl.com/8t52xxz9

In the last of our general articles in 49.3, MacNeill et al draw upon a survey of 702 artists and arts workers to explore the impact of gender on their economic status as artists. #OzArts #OzStudies #VisualArts #GenderGap #OpenAccess #CreativeIndustries tinyurl.com/23c7sp37

49.3 cont'd... Beattie examines the popularity and scepticism surrounding quacks visiting New England in the late 19th century revealing a familiar tension between profit and information in the media. #OpenAccess #quackery #OzHist #OzStudies tinyurl.com/yda83dhp

Number 3 in 49.3 - in a time of international student debates, Song and Spencer take us back to the first Korean international student in the 1920s, illustrating the importance of student mobility for people-to-people #diplomacy. #InternationalStudents #Korea #OpenAccess tinyurl.com/3je6ty9v

Congratulations to the 2026 Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Seoul National University, Dr. Constantinos Yiallourides! More info on Dr Yiallourides' appointment to this prestigious position here: inasa.org/blog/announc...

Next up in 49.3, O'Brien examines patterns of environmental protest in Sydney over a decade, finding key differences in inner and outer urban/metro areas. #environment #protest #GlobalCity #urban #Sydney #ProtestEventAnalysis #OzStudies tinyurl.com/7537amzs

Let the 49.3 games begin! First up, @kristindemetrious.bsky.social and Lowe examines the historical influence of US public relations on Australian practice and its ongoing legacies in Australian political communication. #AusUSrelations #OpenAccess #auspol #PublicRelations tinyurl.com/3tjps2b2

🚨New issue 49.3 out now!🚨 Featuring: a special section on Australian deserts guest edited by Andrea Gaynor and Gary Reger as well as articles on Aus-US public relations, environmental protest, and gender in Australian visual arts. Stay tuned for feature posts! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjau20/c...

Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 John Barrett Award for Australian Studies, which goes to the best article in the Journal of Australian Studies each year! @intlausstudies.bsky.social official announcement: inasa.org/blog/congrat... Direct links to the winning articles 🧵...

It was a pleasure to review this important work.

Short version: fabulous book by a great author beautifully published by an amazing press in Aotearoa. Also. Prisons are uncool. Labour is never wholly free. Colonialism sucks. 👇

🧵Finally, time to shine a spotlight on our wonderful book review contributors to 49.2! Remember, if you have a book you would like reviewed or if you would like to review a book, get in contact with our Reviews Editor @jonpiccini.bsky.social! 🧵1/

In our last article from 49.2, Ricketson examines Rupert Murdoch as an elite paradox - he is hostile to "the Establishment" and elites yet he is one of them... #OzStudies #Murdoch #elites #OpenAccess tinyurl.com/26ahd9vv

More excellent 49.2 content: @phoebehayman.bsky.social examines political participation in teal independents' campaigns - are they outsiders challenging established power, or are they replicating elite dynamics? #OzStudies #auspol #WomenInPolitics #teals tinyurl.com/4aacnp7a

Next in 49.2, guest co-editor @chriswallace.bsky.social explores the role John Hewson played in constructing consent for neoliberalism - 🔥"a cautionary tale concerning upward mobility in the neoliberal era"🔥 #OzStudies #neoliberalism #elites #auspol #OpenAccess tinyurl.com/mw6j7fjs

Start your week right with more 49.2: Melanie Nolan examines women historians' transnational approach to career-building as a strategy to break the glass ceiling of elite academia. #OzStudies #OzHistory #FeministHistory #academia #gender #OpenAccess tinyurl.com/yc2j7m3p

Your 49.2 Friday read: McCarthy examines the extent to which attitudes to the Great War among the Catholic elite were shaped by those of the Protestant elite and the effect of this in securing their own status. #OzStudies #elites #GreatWar #WWI #CatholicHistory #OzHistory tinyurl.com/4rbtvbra

Next in 49.2, guest editor @sybiln.bsky.social examines the impact of Menzies' narrative of self as a child of the Victorian Mallee on shaping public knowledge about the regions. #OzStudies #Menzies #elites #RegionalHistory #Mallee tinyurl.com/9jvns2aa

First up in 49.2, ‪@drink-an-ocean.bsky.social‬ applies Connell's idea of "patriarchal dividends" colonial NSW to show how elites are a reconfiguration of patriarchal power in capitalist democracies. #OzStudies #masculinity #SettlerColonialism #auspol tinyurl.com/2a2ehw7k

🚨 New issue alert 🚨 49.2 out now! Guest editors @chriswallace.bsky.social & @sybiln.bsky.social present the special issue "Insiders & Outsiders, Winners & Losers: Close-Ups of the Struggle for Power & Status in #Australia". Stay tuned this week as we feature each article! tinyurl.com/makzm2b8

Applications now open for 2026 Visiting Professor in Australian Studies at Seoul National University! More details & PD at the link below. Please share this exciting opportunity with senior Humanities and Social Sciences academics in your networks. inasa.org/blog/call-fo...

Congratulations to Lyndall Ryan Thesis Prize winner Dr Emily Gallagher, and to Dr Chris Cheng and Dr Rebecca Lindsay for their commendations. Full details including judge's citations available here: inasa.org/blog/2024-ly...

CFP: 21st International Conference of Australian Studies in China. More detail including registration info here: inasa.org/blog/call-fo...

InASA opposes Ministerial and political interference in Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's ARC Future Fellowship. Full statement available here: inasa.org/blog/inasa-o...

And, finally, 49.1's book reviews (presented here as a thread). Remember, if you are interested in either having your book reviewed in or in reviewing a book, please contact our wonderful Reviews Editor @jonpiccini.bsky.social. #OzStudies #AcademicSky

Our final article for 49.1 - Long, Burnette, Grard & Theunisz explore how a narrative of immunity was used to sell various products in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. #OzStudies #Advertising #immunity #MedicalHistory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

49.1 continues to deliver - Irving presents a gendered history of sports betting in Australia, demonstrating that it continues to be primarily a men's practice. #OzStudies #GamblingStudies #sportsbetting #AcademicSky tinyurl.com/6sacnesd

Welcome to Bluesky, @intlausstudies.bsky.social! Everyone, follow InASA for opportunities in Australian Studies! #OzStudies #AcademicSky

Next in 49.1, we continue our trajectory of understanding Australian working class youth as Mahar interrogates filmmaker Geoffrey Wright's claim that Romper Stomper was a "proletarian tragedy". #YouthStudies #OzStudies #RomperStomper #OpenAccess tinyurl.com/482skj8c

Start your week right with some reading from 49.1. Oldham looks at 1960s sharpie culture as an outlet for working class suburban youth and how it resonated through later youth subcultures. #OzStudies #YouthStudies #OpenAccess tinyurl.com/ccdb72wn

Some 49.1 weekend reading: Martin Hobbs examines Australia's #AUKUS relationship through the lens of imperial nostalgia, arguing that in a time of insecurity around the US, it returns to the UK. #DefenceStudies #OzStudies #InternationalRelations tinyurl.com/mpbm3h7t

More from 49.1: Black examines how the ways that the anniversary of Whitlam's Dismissal is commemorated, reported, and discussed over time illustrate Australia's changing political culture and the shifting politics of memory. #Whitlam #auspol #politicalmemory #OzStudies tinyurl.com/55zyjj3z

Next in 49.1: Taylor and Korolev examine how online alternative media (e.g. FriendlyJordies, Michael West Media) impact Australians' political views on China. #MediaStudies #OzStudies #OpenAccess tinyurl.com/yz4nvujc

Our first cab off the 49.1 rank - Zong and Bisenieks explore dark humour as a crucial storytelling technique in addressing Australia's eco-social challenges. #EnvironmentalStudies #environment #humour #HumourStudies #OzStudies #OpenAccess tinyurl.com/5n6pjzvt

Hot off the press! The latest issue of the Journal of Australian Studies (49.1) is out now. It's got dark humour, imperial nostalgia, youths, and more! Stay tuned for the highlights reel over the coming week! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjau20/c... #OzStudies #AcademicSky #AustralianStudies #Australia