@stanleyhistorian.bsky.social makes many good points in this interview, including the lack of recognition for the Les Carlyon Prize shortlistees www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... Questions over the Australian War Memorial literary prize. Please look at the pic & read my note re shortlist recognition.

"If the ANU is not committed to research that tells the Australian story then well may we ask, what is the point of a national university?" theconversation.com/the-anu-was-...

Leadership must ‘come clean’ on speculated VC ousting, for the sake of the University community’s psychosocial safety. Shocking staff and students have had no official communications. Media is the only source of information atm. Incredibly bad governance. region.com.au/pressure-mou...

Melbourne Uni needs to explain this bullshit. This is destroying critical cultural infrastructure. Unimelb axing Meanjin, ANU scuttling the Australian National Dictionary Centre, and then universities wonder why they can’t seem to exert any influence over the national discourse.

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.

This is an absolute disaster for the literary community, writing writ large, for Australia, the world. I cannot emphasise how bad this is www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.

To restore confidence in #ANU: 1️⃣ Cease Renew ANU job cuts. 2️⃣ Cease Renew ANU cuts to disciplines and areas. 3️⃣ Dismiss the Chancellor. 4️⃣ Dismiss the VC. Sign the @nteunion.bsky.social petition to ANU Council - open at all staff, students and broader community.

Please sign and share this petition for ANU Council to: 🛑Stop forced redundancies 🛑Stop proposed school/center closures and amalgamations 🛑Sack the Chancellor and VC It’s open not only to students and staff but also to all members of the broader ANU community. nteu.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT...

Statement on risks to national social and cultural research infrastructure and capability at the Australian National University | Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia socialsciences.org.au/news/stateme...

Congratulations to @ozworders.bsky.social director @alaugesen.bsky.social. Her book 'Australia in 100 Words' has just been shortlisted for the 2025 Prime Minister's Literary Awards (Australian History). It is a brilliant book - one of my top 2024 reads. A greatly deserved honour.

The ANU is moving to kill the Australian National Dictionary – this is why it matters theconversation.com/the-anu-is-m...

Important open letter concerning the poor and rapidly worsening treatment of our casual sessional colleagues at @ouranu.bsky.social ANU staff please read and consider adding your signatures. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

“The proposed abolition of the Australian National Dictionary Centre represents a significant retreat from the Australian National University’s long-standing commitment to supporting a national public culture.” www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...

www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c... It's only words, but words are all we've got... #SaveOurDictionary @ouranu.bsky.social

Rally tomorrow 12pm. We’re protesting ANU cuts. Come join us and make some noise! And at 1pm come hear personal stories of senseless cheap cuts at the arts and social sciences people’s town hall. ✊

Oh no! The Australian National #Dictionary Centre is an incredibly important group. Disbanding it would be a disaster.

I can't believe ANU is proposing to disestablish ANDC @ozworders.bsky.social‬. Over the last 20 years of writing I've often consulted staff over the origins of obscure words and phrases. We need the dictionary to record and explain our changing language. www.smh.com.au/national/fro...

Australia can’t withstand further humanities cuts. Civil society depends on it. While universities have the right to determine their education & research priorities, no one in Australia has a handle on the effects of cuts & their impact on our national skills & knowledge capabilities. bit.ly/3TqI4jn

This will be my first in-person presentation for almost six years! If you are in town, please come along. I will be talking about the post-liberation experiences of ex-Stalag Luft III POWs. You might find some of them surprising!

Since we’re all talking about it I want to blow up a real female space pioneer, Mae Jemison, an actual astronaut. She’s a graduate of Stanford and Cornel Medical School, served in the peace corps, started an educational nonprofit, and worked for the CDC researching vaccines. That’s a woman in space

We have lost one of the true giants of the screen. Gene Hackman could play anyone, and you could feel a whole life behind it. He could be everyone and no one, a towering presence or an everyday Joe. That’s how powerful an actor he was. He will be missed, but his work will live on forever.

RIP Gene Hackman, 1930-2025

Our Word of the Year for 2024 is 'Colesworth': used in reference to the perceived duopoly of Australia's largest supermarket retailers, Coles and Woolworths. For more about our choice, and shortlist: tinyurl.com/yeyn5tkp

I’ve started a Substack! I’ll be writing about my two current projects: Brow Network, which explores how “taste” is changing in a world of dissolving hierarchies, and my biography-in-progress of the brilliant Pacific region writer Ruth Park. Follow along here: substack.com/@moniquerooney.

Please check out Andrekos' and my article on the 1916 'secret census' of Greeks in Australia in Australian Historical Studies, which has reached over 2,400 views! It is free to read and download: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So great to see historian Lauren Samuellson's research making such a splash in the media - here she is on Channel 7's Morning Show talking about her new book A Matter of taste - a history of the Australian Women's Weekly's role in Australian food culture: 7news.com.au/video/the-mo...

Pub. day for this long-gestating collection! Reframing Indigenous Biography #indigenoushistory (we really need a starter pack, who's in?) My ch: 'Reframing the Tahitian archipelago: insights from the whole lives of Tupaia, Purea, and Hitihiti', contact for PDF... www.routledge.com/Reframing-In....