The ban is bad policy and it's clear not enough has been done to prepare young people and their families about what is about to happen. Where are the education packages and support that were promised? Just telling kids to log off and go touch grass is not going to cut it!

"Copyright is dead. When it comes to AI my property has been stolen all the same" by Michael Bradley #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

Australia's children's commissioner Anne Hollonds has seen "nothing" to address gaps in community and support left by the teen social media ban. A year after first raising the alarm, Hollonds says we need to take a "good, hard look at the unmet needs" of vulnerable kids. www.crikey.com.au/20...

Standing up for childhood would be ending poverty, raising income supports, making *all* healthcare free and accessible, mental health care for all, affordable and secure housing tor everyone, funding public education fully, ending discrimination, ensuring economic justice…

The Australian Government makes more money from HECS repayments than it does from the PRRT. ‘Norway taxes its fossil fuel industry and gives their kids free higher education… we subsidise our fossil fuel industry and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni.’ @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

eSafety Commissioner website has published resources for under-16 social media ban. I don’t see any suggestions or specific support for neurodiverse kids, or kids who aren’t going to just easily swap out their carefully curated online social networks for uncontrolled IRL events

Recast this with 65 year Olds and I'm sold

Precisely. Banning young people from social media just so ill-informed boomers can get over their made-up moral panic simply ends up harming the most vulnerable, for whom social media are a critical lifeline. 👇👇👇

As a parent of a couple of youngsters, I can thoroughly recommend Stuart’s books - the kids love them (and so do I)! This one is bound to be awesome 🤩

The launch for Lost in a Book is, appropriately, happening on Love Your Bookshop Day! 2pm at Readings Kids in Carlton on 11 October, hosted by the amazing Karys McEwen! Link in bio for tickets 📖🐱✨

Brilliant by @amyremeikis.bsky.social www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/u...

Come on Jim, lift your game with naming your horse! Source: University of Melbourne Archive, Strathfieldsaye series. #history #archive #research #Australia

From a story about a new species of pseudoscorpion, this sort of highlighted the management of Australia in a nutshell au.news.yahoo.com/incredible-p...

Yup 🙄: Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/didnt-take-long-to-reveal-the-uks-online-safety-act-is-exactly-the-privacy-crushing-failure-everyone-warned-about/

As the mother of a 10yo and a 13yo, I totally agree. The under 16s social media ban is populist bullshit which won’t help kids, but will actively harm many. It’ll cut off their access to social groups, information, community, while leaving them with less protection against the really bad stuff

Teen internet social media ban? Is it good? Is it bad? Is it incredibly inconvenient and a waste of time? Yes! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Good of the UK to do it before us to show what a clusterf*ck it is

This is cool. 250yrs after William Hamilton designed a Vesuvius apparatus to illustrate the awe of Mount Vesuvius erupting, two mechatronich Masters students at UniMelb have created it, to accompany our new exhibition in the Baillieu Library: “The Grand Tour” library.unimelb.edu.au/asc/whats-on...

If you would like to add your voice in support, you can sign here: url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/w2nbCBNqgB...

More than 100 high-profile and distinguished Australians -and BA graduates- have signed the @austhistassoc.bsky.social open letter calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates: a policy that punishes humanities students with life-changing debts: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The anticipation is building…well, something is building, only we can’t see what yet 😂 This is the bit of exhibition turn-over where anything is possible. Come the end of July we’ll have a brand new exhibition in this space 🤩 #baillieulibrary #unimelb #norlshawgallery #archivesandspecialcollection

Hey Aussie emerging writers and creatives who identify as women - Archives & Special Collections @ UniMelb are re-launching the Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Creative Fellowship. Selected fellows receive $20k among other stuff. Check out details and eligibility here: library.unimelb.edu.au/asc/whats-on...

‘There is no political power without power over the archive’ (Derrida)

Our PBS is a national treasure. Our research shows the prices Australians would pay if the US had its way and dismantled our Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. Heart disease/cholesterol medicine: $25 v $968 Depression medicine: $32 v $2,244 Female contraception: $28 v $621

Politicians & staffers are using disappearing messages on Signal, WhatsApp to conceal govt business, political history. Is it legal? #auspol Important story by @ajgardineresq.bsky.social michaelwest.com.au/sending-the-...

This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...

The AHA Executive Committee has issued a statement in response to the proposed definition of antisemitism put forward by Universities Australia. Read the full statement here:

The Australien Government has made an ad to announce the 2025 election, and it's surprisingly honest and informative. #auspol

The Liberal Party of Australia has made an ad about its Nuclear Plan, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBqV...

Being serious, one thing I have just remembered - Kobo is a CANADIAN ebook company. I might do my ereading with them instead of Amazon.

Absolutely floored to see The 113th Assistant Librarian shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. Thanks to @wheelercentre.bsky.social, the State Government, Penguin Kids Australia and @mjostell.bsky.social for making such an honour possible, and congratulations to the other nominees!

Invasion Day 2025.

Here's me. 'How did America Nazi this coming?'

"All along, it’s been about a grab for oil and gas". @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social on Howard & Downer's Timor spying lies and the long battle to find the truth #auspol michaelwest.com.au/howard-downe...

A UN committee found that Australia violated a human rights treaty by detaining a group of asylum seekers, including minors, on the remote Pacific island of Nauru even after they were granted refugee status, it said in a statement reut.rs/404zZ6K

Fears grow over censorship of secret Queen Elizabeth and Philip papers

“A series of unresolved archival encounters point to other dismissal archives that, for very different reasons, continue to evade the scrutiny of history.” By @palaceletters.bsky.social theaimn.net/critical-arc...

It’s that day of the year where, every year, without fail, I can be heard muttering “why TF didn’t I take a few more days as leave?”

Nobody warned me you could get motion sickness from playing with a VR headset.. 🤢

This was a depressing read - 'It’s also a world where that art is “more familiar, formulaic, user-friendly, eager to please — more like entertainment, less like art.”' And I'm sorry, I don't make 'content' and I'm not your dancing monkey. I refuse. www.vox.com/culture/2024...

Merry happy holiday season, all…

Everyone remember

Children do not “belong to parents”. Children are not property. They are people with rights and parents and guardians are responsible for upholding those rights

I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired. History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them. Signed, a physicist

Historians: learning to evaluate sources is essential. Universities: thank you for your feedback. Here are our planned cuts to #history departments. Meanwhile: a new report reveals that 97% of adults in Australia have limited skills to verify information online 🤔 theconversation.com/97-of-adult-...

This is INSANE. Somehow we have decided as a nation that it's fine to give taxpayer funds to the very richest schools while sabotaging public education. How is this okay? How is this sustainable in any way? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This is a fascinating article about the founding of the National Film and Sound Archive- a reminder that good government decisions often happen by accident: insidestory.org.au/barry-cohens...

A new publisher of Tutis-level awfulness: Revelation Press! Here are some highlights from their catalogue: The Call of the Wild, with added derp

The website for the 2025 AHA Conference is live! Hosted by James Cook University and Central Queensland University, the CFP is now open on any area of history, including those on the conference theme, 'Looking Up'.