When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/

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Governments have been crying poor to justify & conceal their priorities for decades…now some of our publicly owned universities are using the same neoliberal accounting tricks to claim they are in ‘crisis’ when they are hoarding records amounts of cash and shares thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

The world needs is even as the universities collapse. open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo...

On the 50th anniversary of the Dismissal, revisit the career and achievements of Elizabeth Reid, the world’s first advisor on women’s affairs advisor to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, at #VIDAblog. Read more here ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/revisit...

With a bold reform agenda and occasional administrative chaos, Whitlam’s three-year government continues to have a profound effect on Australian life. 👉 theconversation.com/extraor...

We’ve forgotten what universities are for

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🎧LISTEN: Michelle Grattan is one of the few remaining working journalists who witnesses The Dismissal first hand. She shares her memories of that tumultuous day.

My review of former Australian PM Tony Abbott's new book out today: Tony Abbott’s history of Australia wants us to be proud of men like him theconversation.com/tony-abbotts...

NEW at #VIDAblog! Eli Branagh and Taylah Evans discuss their experience hosting ‘Thinking Beyond Liberal Narratives of Progress’, a one-day symposium held in response to the recently published Personal Politics: The Remaking of Gender, Sexuality, and Citizenship (2024). Find out more here ⬇️

Publishing next month! Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship tackles what failure – in all its messy but immensely valuable complexity – means for the DH community. Edited by @mjdonnay.bsky.social and @amsichani.bsky.social Published by @uolpress.bsky.social uolpress.co.uk/book/reframi...

Social media bans suggest a resurgence of conservative values in our digital lives. But at what cost to young people’s autonomy, creativity and expression? 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/as-soci...

Our new review article examines the parallels between COVID and AIDS, including the social impacts www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the King’s brother

My latest article for Health and History @anzshm.bsky.social explores how emotion helped establish new hygienic norms in turn-of-the-century Sydney, revealing how disgust and pride motivated both compliance with and resistance to public health policies on plague and TB: dx.doi.org/10.1353/hah....

The war against 'false news' is not 'new', but has been a concern of international organisations for over 100 years. The ever captivating Roland Burke launches a new Guardian column, Past/Present, sponsored by the @austhistassoc.bsky.social.

We can’t prevent violence against women and children without tackling men’s heavy alcohol use.

The Times Higher Education global universities rankings have again swept through the marketing departments of Australia's unis, putting a thin lacquer over an industry plagued by endemic wage theft and poor student satisfaction outcomes.

If Labor wishes to reclaim its moral authority, it must break with the consultant paradigm: rebuild public governance, fund socially vital disciplines and restore universities as places of learning, not revenue streams. #auspol #universitiesAU

Jane Goodall showed tremendous courage in charting her own course as a pioneering researcher – and working to spread hope wherever she went.

Since it's Julie Andrews birthday (+24 hours) here she is yodelling with Maria von Trapp youtu.be/g6j376yOlm4?...

#PhD research callout! I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form. forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb Ethics approval: H16788 Please share!

I like to say that I'm a musicologist (cultural historian of music and books) by training and a research coordinator by profession. Here's a little interview about how I changed careers, what I do now, and my very best grant writing tip! internt.slu.se/en/support-s... #EnvHum #EnvHist

I'm excited to be speaking at the Lines in the Sand festival in Maryborough in October! This talk draws on my Camera Obscura journal article about Mary Poppins and The Suffrage Postcard Project, a digital archive of women's suffrage postcards. Find out more ⬇️ www.eventbrite.com.au/e/lines-in-t...

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵 Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

New post by @drkdwatson.bsky.social and Carolyn Strange: "Poisoning Crimes and the ‘Mushroom Murderer’: Patterns and Precedents" legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/09/23/p...

"Mothers of [autistic &] disabled children deserved to be viewed & treated as the warm, caring, attuned parents they were. […] Yet in being cast as ‘refrigerator mothers’, they were branded a fundamental causal factor of their child’s disability" -Dr Kate McAnelly: www.auswhn.com.au/blog/unreal-...

This week on Wonkhe: Institutions are wary of speaking about Israel's actions in Gaza, but that silence has consequences, argues Aneeza Pervez

Mothers have long been unfairly blamed for their children's autism, as Kate McAnelly recently wrote in #VIDAblog. Knowing this history is all the more important following yesterday's scientifically unfounded allegations about paracetamol/tylenol. Read more here ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/unreal-...

New research considers the true value of Meanjin, using publicly available data. The journal has trained generations of Australian writers and editors.

In the latest #VIDAblog Margaret Allen remembers Emeritus Professor Alison MacKinnon. Read about Alison's impact and achievements here ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/remembe...

"The ability to peddle the fiction that the Nazi Holocaust is unique, or that Jews are uniquely entitled, has ended." johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...

NEW at #VIDAblog! Tanya Fitzgerald (@archive-dweller.bsky.social) explores women’s access to higher education in Aotearoa New Zealand at the end of the nineteenth century 🎓 This is part of our "Women's Education" series, edited by Kaitlin Mills. Read it here ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/a-matte...

Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

Whoa! Elsevier fired @richardtol.bsky.social, longstanding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Energy Economics. Richard's side of the story should be ringing alarm bells. #EconSky Fraud and cover-up richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...

PNG’s founding leaders didn’t just inherit Australian institutions – they reimagined how they could best suit the country’s traditional culture. 👉 theconversation.com/50-year...

NEW at #VIDAblog! Kerrie Saunders and @mcookhistory.bsky.social explore Kamilaroi women’s knowledge of nature, country, and history. The "Environment and Gender" series is guest edited by @rubyekkel.bsky.social. Read it here ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/listeni...

Very excited that my new article with @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social has been published open access in @historicaljnl.bsky.social 'Transnational Whiteness and the Elite Backlash to Reforming the Australian Immigration Control System in the 1950s and 1960s' www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our book is out!! Happy publication day to our fantastic team of editors and authors.

The shrinking of academia is contributing to this. Peer review was an accepted part of academic labour for those employed in the system, but that pool is dwindling. I haven’t been employed in academia properly for nearly 2 years but still doing peer reviews because there’s no one else to do it.

One option for the future of Meanjin is for Uni Melb to reinstate its support. And here's one idea for how to fund it.

Meanjin published the cream of Australia’s writers. With its sudden closure, a vital, 85-year thread of our cultural conversation will fall silent.

Unfortunately, he is wreaking havoc in the real one.

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.

Exclusive | Louise Adler told Crikey, “Institutions like Meanjin, and it is an institution, are easy to close down. Their replacements much harder to create."

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk