Publication day! My article on how to read an 18C newspapers, on digital remediation, and on the unfree press out in the world. Thanks @andy-schocket.bsky.social @historymatterssyd.bsky.social & M. Karrs for making it all possible. @universitypress.cambridge.org lnkd.in/eEwbdbSw

One year postdoc in Australian history at Sydney Uni - details below. It’s a very short window - please spread among networks Might suit someone already in the GLAM sector who wants to work on their research/practice - all applications welcome of course usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

Join us at the University for a critical and timely talk by Chris Hedges….free and open to all. www.powerfulstories.org/post/journal...

There will always be something to prompt Israel to decide to restrict aid.

EMCR training event that brings together an amazing array of community practitioners and engaged academics to discuss the challenges and opportunities of doing community-engaged research. For our full line-up and a link to register, see the webpage below. www.powerfulstories.org/post/reimagi...

Come join us for a discussion of this critically important issue, brilliantly illuminated by Dr Akuch Anyieth. For full details of this interdisciplinary discussion and panel, see… www.powerfulstories.org/post/book-la...

Thugs, liars and genocidal war criminals. This is what we’re not allowed to condemn and protest at Universities in Australia. Our managers are moral cowards and wonder why so few staff have any confidence in their so called leadership and vision. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Let’s just keep putting it out there….war crimes and human rights abuses abound. If this was any other country in the world, there would be sanctions at a minimum. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Sure sounds like something Trump would say. Oh wait…. Is this all he has said? Really? @AlboMP you and your fellow puppets are squandering a mandate to actually act. Grow up. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

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

EVENT REMINDER: History on Wednesday | August 27 Burning the House Down: Arson and Aboriginal Resistance in Settler Colonial Australia Professor Victoria Haskins | University of Newcastle 12.10pm - 1.30pm | Vere Gordon Childe Centre (F09) and Zoom t.e2ma.net/message/gt20...

At this stage the headlines should just be a constant stream of “Israel adds more atrocities to the list of war crimes it should be prosecuted for” www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Sickening. And likely still not accurate given the IDF’s propensity to call just about anyone they want a combatant. Netanyahu is a war criminal. We need to stop aiding and abetting this, now. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

The Australian Defence Force having billions in Israel defence contracts puts Australia at risk - military, ethically and legally michaelwest.com.au/billions-in-... via @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

Australia’s Home Affairs minister says ‘strength is not measured by how many people you can blow up’.

Uni managers are so completely out of control. They do what they like, are accountable to no one, and simply focus on chasing big salaries. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Please help with this campaign - to protect our right to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza. My colleagues at Usyd are under attack. chuffed.org/project/1432...

The ultra-wealthy have exploited Australia’s tax system for too long. It’s time to ensure everyone pays their fair share By @sallymcmanus.bsky.social #auspol

The behaviour of a pariah state. It’s not complicated. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

So very excited about the next History Now panel - a collaboration with the Wood Memorial lecture by the Discipline of History at @sydney.edu.au Thanks @historymatterssyd.bsky.social Tickets are selling fast

I have almost run out of things to say about the people running Australian universities www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

@historymatterssyd.bsky.social and I are delighted to see the UNSETTLING PORTRAITS podcast get Highly Commended in these Digital History Awards! www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/nsw-h... (link to the podcast in this linked page)

All cuts, at all Unis, should be stopped until the rot at the top of every single one of them has been thoroughly examined. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

The Australia Institute, Dr Richard Denniss, caused a stir by claiming that the government takes more money from uni students through HECS than it collects from the petroleum resource rent tax. Verified by ABC fact checkers. Time to change that. #auspol #gastax #product ...

White Australian Nazis are planning an anti-immigration “March for Australia”. I’ll say that again: white fellas are complaining about migrants to Australia.

Completely untenable. No leadership just inexcusable behaviour www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

An international pariah www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Headline should read “Police prove that they really aren’t up to the job after all. Or couldn’t be bothered…” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Massive march in Sydney to protest genocide.

Really honored to be chairing the Wood Memorial lecture @sydney.edu.au @usyd-humanities.bsky.social 'Creative Histories' featuring radical voices in history: Shauna Bostock, André Dao, Katerina Teaiwa Thanks to @historymatterssyd.bsky.social Register here 👇 events.humanitix.com/2025-wood-me...

This week on Palestine Square: voices from Gaza that refuse to be silenced. From the grief and memory of a student writer, to Hebrew graffiti used as a weapon of control, to students preparing for exams in tents and ruins, these are stories of survival, dignity, and resistance🧵

It’s almost as though universities have been taken over by a class of soulless executives who loot their public institutions for perks and salaries

I taught 125 students last semester in Sin City? A History of Sydney @sydney.edu.au . My colleague, James Findley, taught far more in introductory Australian history. Semester 2 I'm coordinating a course with 328+ students. I don't know why our numbers are growing in History at Usyd, but they are.

Participants included @brucealexb.bsky.social, @kfullagar.bsky.social, @historymatterssyd.bsky.social, @amcgrath.bsky.social, @amclarenhistory.bsky.social, and more.

insidestory.org.au/dropping-out... “Those in whom power is vested have also tended to be feckless and lacking in vision.”

‘Proposed Macquarie University restructure will ‘hollow out’ humanities, academics say’ Prepare for a brain-drain in Oz … and at the worst possible time. Cutting politics - and a course on Middle East politics, now? NOW? Really?! #AusPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Indigeneity and the Age of Revolution starts with a public lecture from Native American historian Elizabeth Ellis from Princeton on June 3. Full details and a registration link can be found here, as well as the program for the rest of the symposium: historymatters.sydney.edu.au/2025/05/indi...

Deserved praise for the oeuvre of my very smart colleague and friend Kate Fullagar, who is known to so many - though unusually in quite different fields of study. But there are clear themes and connections!

3-6 June historymatters.sydney.edu.au/2025/05/indi...

Fantastic line up here and with Elizabeth Ellis as keynote. Sydney. historymatters.sydney.edu.au

With postdocs in any field a real rarity these days, it's great to see this one just opened up in Pacific History at the University of Sydney 🗃️ Plus you'll be working with wonderful people like @historymatterssyd.bsky.social Psst @journalpacifichist.bsky.social

Postdoc opportunity. Please distribute widely. We’re looking for an emerging scholar doing community-centred or community-led research in Pacific History. Minimal teaching duties, research, relocation funds and visa sponsorship available. usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...

Upcoming Powerful Stories Network event with Arabic Language and Cultures Wed, 7 May, 6pm - 7pm AEST Omar Sakr and Safdar Ahmed in conversation with Lucia Sorbera (SLC) events.humanitix.com/arabic-langu...