This is such a lovely post on mentors in academia - they are there at the start, and many stay important all the way through your career. As a sounding board, or writing yet another reference for you! I’ve been lucky to have three people I consider great mentors & who helped me pay it forward too

How do politicians talk about housing, and does it impact policy? #ICYMI Political scientists @markriboldi.bsky.social & @pandanuspetter.bsky.social join @marijataflaga.bsky.social to discuss housing policy, safety nets and the fair go. #AUListen 🎧 #DemocracySausage ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra...

@marijataflaga.bsky.social @markriboldi.bsky.social and I have a chat about UBIs & crisis thinking in housing and social welfare policy. I haven't listened, so if I say anything regrettable just know I've grown and changed since back then (yesterday). 😱🏠💰🗣️ reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stories/...

The latest from me in @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-greens-e...

Just so infuriating everything

Should we lower the voting age to 16, and if so should we make it compulsory? The gang (@jillesheppard.bsky.social, @powercleanpolitics.bsky.social @blairwilliams26.bsky.social Faith Gordon) and I weigh in. Check it out! theconversation.com/should-austr...

Good idea. Australia's R&D investment is abysmal, and Australian big business in particular ride on the coattails of everyone else.

Call for Papers: APSA T&L Group Workshop: AI and Digital Literacy in Teaching Political Studies – 11 and 12 September 2025 auspsa.org.au/job-alert/latest/apsa-tl-group-workshop-ai-and-digital-literacy-in-teaching-political-studies-11-and-12-september-2025/

Hello Sydneysiders! On Tuesday 23rd Sep join Frank Bongiorno, George Megalogenis, @bspiesbutcher.bsky.social, @lizhumphrys.bsky.social & me for our public event A New Australian Politics: Rupture or Realignment. Registration is free & we'd love to see you there! events.humanitix.com/a-new-austra...

"Part of a worldwide trend towards right-wing populism, Advance will likely continue to be at the centre of conservative politics in Australia." Me writing for @theconversation.com on conservative campaign group Advance. theconversation.com/right-wing-p...

New paper from my colleagues. But also love that the staff-led campaign against ANU budget cuts gets tag here

Thank you for the incredibly engaged review of our book Story Tech! - currently available free online 📚

Today's blog post uses my dataset of election results adjusted to modern boundaries dating back to 2025 to look at how each seat's position *relative to other seats* has changed over that time, and since 2022. The article focuses solely on 2PP for simplicity's sake #ausvotes

Join Us. 👇 As president of @auspsa.bsky.social we have sent a letter to Macquarie Uni @macqpac.bsky.social expressing our deep concern at proposed cuts to politics teaching and jobs. auspsa.org.au/job-alert/ap...

Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been published open access today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 💫 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on. A quick 🧵:

We're in @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social's Political Insight this week unpacking a bit about what British parties could learn from Australia’s election journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

We'll be kicking off the Seoul IPSA Conference on Sunday 13 July with a panel on "The Supply & Demand of Right-Wing Populism in the 2020s" Featuring papers by @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, @dafnoukos.bsky.social, @benstanley.eu, @rheinisch.bsky.social, & me. If you're not at church, do come along!

A really fascinating article which has come along just as I'm thinking about political place-making, representations of self and Bob Katter...

We had the pleasure of hosting the @auspsa.bsky.social @popgroupaus.bsky.social Workshop, where scholars from around Australia discussed timely topics. Thank you to organisers, Dr Jordan McSwiney and @friedelm1.bsky.social, and to Faculty of BGL Dean, Prof Uwe Dulleck, for his warm opening remarks.

New article! ‘With great power comes great responsibility’: climate change and the politics of simulation of the oil industry by Luca Mavelli. Welcome to the desert of the real and the politics of simulation of the oil industry! doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Excellent piece from the data journos at @australia.theguardian.com explaining the mechanics of why the Greens lost seats - widely dispersed votes, redistribution, three-cornered contests and yes, going backwards in the vote.

Hello ANU staff members. We are once again asking for you to read and consider signing this latest open letter to our executive, requesting that they reconsider the path that they are taking (cutting further than they need to). docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The Macquarie PhD scholarship on our new Climate Economy project is now open - working with me, @garethbryant.bsky.social Sophie Weber, @clairerhiannon.bsky.social & Svenja Keele. We'll explore how climate change remakes our political economy. Topic negotiable. www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...

Powerful statement by the most influential and well known political scientists - worth reading in full

"...revolving-door pathways from student politics to Parliament and then private sector boardrooms bypass real work experience and meaningful community engagement.” I chatted to the European Centre for Populism Studies for this "incisive" interview: www.populismstudies.org/dr-riboldi-s...

My dear friend @emilyrosefoley.bsky.social has been on a roll lately - if you’re interested in social democratic parties, you should check out her work on the Australian Labor Party!

Can't wait to kick off this new project on Australia's Climate Economy with some very cool people. This post-doc will be based at Sydney Uni, and there will be a funded PhD scholarship based at Macquarie coming soon...

🚨 Happy to see my new paper with Prof Marian Sawer out in the Australian Journal of Political Science The good news: it’s open access The bad news: It’s about the “war on woke” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We're in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social, examining the ALP's first term in government and exploring the resurgence of 'consensus' politics. This one is also open access!

With women making a projected 49.1% of the 48th parliament (both houses), Australia would now firmly be placed equal 7th in this list! This is a huge rise in the ranks from equal 33rd for our 47th parliament! #AusPol #AusVotes #GenderEquality #DesriptiveRepresentation

Missed this post by @benraue.com over the weekend (while my kid was turning 18 🥲) but it's absolutely, incredibly bang on www.tallyroom.com.au/60577. I'm slightly more sanguine in that I think the parties will (eventually) respond to low primary vote but the current disproportionality is Very Bad

This is one of the more interesting takes so far on what the Coalition split might mean for Labor. But it does assume that this split isn't just partly theatrics and grandstanding, and that it'll meaningfully transfer into legislative/parliamentary strategy for the Liberals.

Fun fact: On Meta, during the #FederalElection Anti-Nuclear\LNP orgs outspent pro-Nuclear/LNP ones d almost 3:1. Me in the Conversation looking at the biggest third party spenders on Meta in the federal election. #AusPol theconversation.com/follow-the-m...

Larissa Waters is the Greens' new leader. Besides having an apt surname for an ecological party leader, what do we know about her? And what might we expect from her leadership of Australia's largest minor party? New piece from me in @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/fresh-start-...

This is also a really nice way of showing how critical and interpretivist methods complement - not undermine!! - empirical ones

Proofing on a Saturday. Could be worse

This is an interesting take on how social relationships & active connection are important for political persuasion and change - more so than debate and deliberation www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Oh cool

Great news! Congrats Sofia! 🥳🥳🥳

Rob and I have a new(ish) article in Commonwealth & Comparative Politics. In the paper we discuss the extent to which the first term Albanese Labor Government reshaped Australia's political economy. It's open access too!

🚨 New piece in @aunz.theconversation.com from Amy Nethery and I: In this article, we consider 'How did Tim Wilson turn the tide in Goldstein?'. The answer: by becoming more like the teal campaign that defeated him in 2022. Read it in full here theconversation.com/liberal-part...

I've taken Jane Hume's advice and read the entrails now the chicken is gutted Here's me in the @theconversation.com on the Greens' election performance theconversation.com/greens-elect...

You only have a week to enrol!!! JOIN us for what will be a super topical conversation with former ALP leader BILL SHORTEN on pressing issues in the Trumpian era and how the new ALP govt will navigate it. latrobe.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @latrobeuni.bsky.social

It was a pleasure, as always, to talk to ABC's Steve Austin this morning. We chatted about the election result, how young people (probably) voted, the awful Liberal Party campaign and...Nirvana. From 48:00 here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Final "Yes We Spam" (w @crikey.com.au & @pandanuspetter.bsky.social) is now out! www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/06/2025-election-king-of-spam/

@blairwilliams26.bsky.social how is the gender break-down looking in this parliament?

"Above all, the Liberals would do well to lose the sneer." @frankbongiorno.bsky.social in a great piece on on the Liberal Party crisis. inside.org.au/are-the-libe...

Some more election related thoughts - this time about representation, accountability and power. www.markriboldi.com.au/2025/05/02/w... (inspired by a reading of @phoebehayman.bsky.social's great new article in AJPS about the Teal wave in 2022).

The Liberal Party's women problem isn't new, yet the party has made little progress. My @aunz.theconversation.com article draws on findings about how women were recruited to independent campaigns to consider how the Liberal Party could attract more women. theconversation.com/the-liberals...

What role has mis and disinformation played in the 2025 federal 🇦🇺? This is what we found: theconversation.com/fake-news-an... @maxgroemping.bsky.social @latrobeuni.bsky.social @auspsa.bsky.social