We need better planning, not economists’ abstract pontificating, based on simplistic & narrow premises. Professor Nicole Gurran; “when economic modellers try to plan actual cities, reality gets in the way” www.smh.com.au/national/rea...

Everything which made Adelaide a great city to live in is being eroded away... I bet none of the folks interviewed in this article live in an apartment. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

New paper: Infrastructures of Highly Skilled Family Migration: Political Economy of the Family in Migration The paper examines the brokerage of time insecurity and transience through visas and international schools for skilled migrant families in Singapore onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Australian National University Chancellor Julie Bishop and Vice-Chancellor Genevieve Bell are still standing – not because the storms battering Australia’s premier research institution have eased, but because no one in power wants to force a change. satpa.pe/UqvwBvE

I have always been bewildered by how Universities engage with external consultants to do anything. There isn't anyone they could consult within the university? Universities need a proper reform in how they are governed. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati... #ivorytowerwithintheivorytower

Forces of nature? Unbelievable that there isn't a single mention of climate change www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

The Institute of Australian Geographers' conference in Newcastle is coming up very soon. Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend anymore. If you know someone who would like to attend, please let me know, and I'm happy to transfer my full conference registration to them. Please share!

Congratulations to all the Vice Chancellors and their hefty pay-rise. www.afr.com/policy/healt...

@citiesandstuff.bsky.social @charishmaratnam.bsky.social @catherinelwalker.bsky.social @jonathanaharris.bsky.social @franziskapaul.bsky.social @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social @envidynxlab.bsky.social @smhall.bsky.social

Higher Education Internationalisation Good Practice Guide and Capability Framework Released! Honoured to be involved in developing these resources for the #intled sector, recently released by the Australian Government Department of Education: thekoalanews.com/higher-educa... #internationaleducation

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

No mention at all of climate change. Throwing all the bandaids won't be enough. buthttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/south-australia-farmers-take-drought-fight-to-parliament-house/105070932

Usually at this point, someone would be labelling this as 'woke'. www.espn.com.au/afl/story/_/...

for those who are geographically inclined, the Cultural Geography Study Group of the Institute of Australian Geographers now has a bluesky account! Follow us here -- @culturalgeogaus.bsky.social

Australia’s university Vice-Chancellors are among the highest paid in the world. Australia’s PhD students are some of the lowest paid. That is not a sign of a healthy education system. Read more from @jack-thrower.bsky.social:

I wouldn't give a student a grade first and ask for their assignment after... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Call for papers for the #RGSIBG25 conference! Do you think about time/temporality/timescapes in your research? We are looking for papers that engage broadly with these themes See link below for more details. Deadline 26th Feb

I spoke with Leon Compton about Tasmania’s demographic reality in the context of recent reports re our slow population growth and the final report of the Independent Education Review - how the decisions and policies we make have a demographic impact #politas - from 46m www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

It has been hectic in the international education space in Australia - I see and hear the international education sector, peak bodies, stakeholders, migration and education agents stepping up, complaining, and lobbying against the various policies proposed in the last 12 months.

It doesn't matter if you're left or right. Research by @heindehaas across 21 Western countries shows that business ensures the continuation of business as usual when it comes to migration.

Call for sessions - @Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, 1 - 5 July 2024, Adelaide, South Australia. The theme for the conference is Scale, Solutions and Geographical Futures. Please share! C onference website - au.eventscloud.com/website/2682...

Devastating news of killing by Israel of one of the lead investigators on our arts and creative story writing project with Palestinian folktales - a gigantic literary talent & Shakespeare scholar Gaza wrote back through Prof Refaat Al-Areer, beloved by students, colleagues, and translators. A poet

4th paper in our @austgeog SI by David Radford, myself, Heidi Hetz, Branka Krivokrapic-Skoko & Arefa Hassini uses Phillimore’s ‘5 domains of opportunity structures’ to operationalise a 'Whole-of-Community' approach to regional refugee settlement. #geosky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The 3rd paper in our Australian Geographer Special Issue on regional refugee settlement from Martina Boese & Anthony Moran (La Trobe University) calls for the need to rethink the secondary migration of refugees in regional Australia. #geosky #refugees #migration www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The 3rd paper in our Australian Geographer Special Issue on regional refugee settlement from Martina Boese & Anthony Moran (La Trobe University) calls for how we need to rethink the secondary migration of refugees in regional Australia. #geosky #refugees #migration tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This Policy Document is one of the outputs of the Regional Refugee Settlement Forum (RRSF) and Roundtable, which ran in October 2021 & a result of many practitioners, researchers, policymakers and people with lived experience in regional communities. 3/4

The 3 themes are: - Preparing and resourcing regional communities receiving humanitarian migrants. - Meeting the needs of humanitarian migrants settling in regional Australia. - Building a collective future that realises the social, cultural & economic opportunities of regional settlement. 2/4

I'm excited to share our report - Regional Refugee Settlement: Learning from the past, preparing for the future. digitalcollections.cdu.edu.au/nodes/view/7... This report lists and discusses 16 key recommendations that fall under the following three themes. 1/4 #RefugeesWelcome #geosky

I'm excited to share our report - Regional Refugee Settlement: Learning from the past, preparing for the future. digitalcollections.cdu.edu.au/nodes/view/7... This report lists and discusses 16 key recommendations that fall under the following three themes. 1/4 #RefugeesWelcome #geosky

In contrast, residential colleges (who are dearer and generally service domestic students) such as St Mark's have increased their fees to 3.2%, below CPI.

I love how Purpose Built Student Housing (PBSH) that lines North Terrace in Adelaide increase the rents of my international students who now find it too expensive to live there. I guess the 'Purpose' in PBSH is Profit.

This article is the second in our upcoming Special Issue in the Australian Geographer on the regional settlement of refugees. #geosky #refugees #refugeesettlement

This paper by Mandy Hughes, Louise Whitaker and Barbara Rugendyke looks at the '3Es to Freedom' program in supporting the needs of refugee and migrant women in regional communities in northern New South Wales and South East Queensland. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Environmental Geographers! Area is looking for a new co-editor to join a wonderful team (Sarah Marie Hall, Alan Latham & Julian Leyland). We are looking for an environmental geographer, passionate about helping ECRs publish. See below for details ⬇️ www.rgs.org/geography/ne...

join us NEXT WEEK online for our three-day multi-timezone symposium on ATMOSPHERIC BORDERS @BorderCritical — see our excellent line up of presenters: acbsworking.group/atmospheric-...

Refugee 'rules' for the modern age must recognise climate change - which isn't what is being suggested here #migration #climatechange Braverman to ask world leaders to make refugee rules ‘fit for the modern age’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

NEW from my DECRA research: "saying 'bed bugs' in a hostel is like yelling 'bomb' at the airport. Everyone just freaks out" — a playful paper on more-than-human geographies, biosecurity, and migration mobilities. #geosky Open Access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Here's the link to the article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... And deep gratitude to reviewers, editors of Australian Geographer, and SI editors whom I hope to see on Blue Sky soon, Natascha Klocker, David Radford, LivDun and Kate Golebiowska. #refugee #resettlement #geosky #geo #geography

Articles in our upcoming Special Issue on Regional Refugee Settlement in Australian Geographer have been published. First, Sarah Faulkner writes on place/natural environment's role in shaping feelings of belonging and home in regional Australia.

First post! Thanks @lauraskh.bsky.social for the invite! How do things work around we? Do we @ and # and everything like we used to do in the 'bad place'?