Never have I so badly needed Daniel Craig to say these words

Bleak times at Macquarie Uni, as management moves to implement large scale job cuts in arts and science (because who needs that expertise, right?). Amanda’s threat outlines the lies that underpin these changes. We need urgent governance reform now: but is the government listening?

This is disgraceful - both the workload and the AI ‘workaround’

Don’t ever let Labor say there’s no money for essential services when Richard Marles says it’s budgeted $25 billion for submarine pens to support the U.S. Navy. #Insiders #auspol

This is shoddy but unsurprising behaviour from an institution that continues to lionise Ben Roberts-Smith despite multiple courts having determined him to be a murderer.

Great piece on the failures of governance and regulation over our university sector by Richard Dennis: australiainstitute.org.au/post/imagine...

Most humanities research — including the best, most world leading research by people we’ve all heard of — is unfunded, by which they mean produced as part of one’s routine job as a university lecturer, just “not funded by a big competitive external grant”. This would mean the death of research.

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“of course it struggled to be viable – it’s a literary magazine. almost no literary magazines around the world are financially viable; that’s not their purpose. the point is their cultural value, the role they serve as a platform for ideas and creativity…” www.theguardian.com/books/commen...

Forced redundancies and restructuring at ANU must stop - in the least pause - while TEQSA investigates the university. Leadership also must step aside while the regulator examines their conduct. How can an investigation be completed fairly any other way? www.teqsa.gov.au/sites/defaul...

"A lot of the business majors didn’t think they had learned anything particularly useful in college." Knock me over with a feather. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...

Thanks to @michellearrow.bsky.social , @frankbongiorno.bsky.social and Anna Clark for bringing solutions to the higher ed crisis - as teachers and researchers, not consultants theconversation.com/universities...

Dr Liz Allen’s evidence today was heartbreaking, brave and infuriating. This is the devastating personal toll of broken governance. Julie Bishop must resign immediately or be sacked. t.co/O9W9nhpydN

Senator @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social: ‘Does it worry you that the staff students and alumni are so dissatisfied and untrusting of governance and the university?’ Kate Witenden, ANU Chief People Officer: ‘I’m not aware of this.’ Senator Faruqi: ‘Why am I aware and you are not?’

‘Our public universities have become corporatised, governed from behind closed doors by people with little connection to the daily realities of staff and students. The consequences have been catastrophic.’ Dr Alison Barnes, NTEU National President at today’s Senate Inquiry into university governance

Help us reach our target of 5000 signatures - please sign and share!

12 single mums chaired by an academic could put together an entire system in a day for the cost of lunch

The crux of their argument is that if they're found liable, then the consequences of their own actions that no one forced them to take could ruin them and the rest of their industry that undertakes similar practices. To which I say motherfucker did you never hear about Napster

The government is under mounting pressure to dump a Morrison-era policy that has drastically cut university funding, saddled many students with debts they will never be able to repay and driven many more away from higher education altogether. satpa.pe/MA6GXR1

We are so close to reaching our target of 2500 signatures on this petition calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates! If you care about equity in higher education and want the BA to be affordable and accessible for *all* students, please sign! www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

Sydney turning out in support of Palestine. So good to see.

From our tiny patch. #MarchforHumanity

We only made it about a quarter of the way across the bridge before the march was turned around. A huge crowd, hugely diverse: proud to be there with my family #MarchforHumanity

Heading into the city for today’s March for Humanity across the Harbour Bridge

It baffles me that @australianlabor.bsky.social wants to hang this failed, unfair policy around its neck, when they could condemn it as a folly of the unpopular Morrison government and ditch it. Sign our petition to urge them to abolish it now! www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

And! People of all professions, including people in the business and corporate sphere, have signed our petition, leaving comments about the enduring social, political, and economic value of the BA. Sign the petition, read the comments, leave your own in support! www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

And it’s not just writers: comedians, business leaders, academics, musicians and chefs have signed our letter:

Thank you to @theconversation.com for sharing the open letter calling for @albomp.bsky.social to repeal Job-Ready Graduates. theconversation.com/top-australi...

Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing theconversation.com/top-australi...

A great comment piece on @austhistassoc.bsky.social open letter urging the PM to repeal Job-Ready Graduates: theconversation.com/top-australi...

Wonderful! Thanks David!

Foreclosing access to Arts degrees by shackling students to heavy debt is damaging for all. Demand the Labor Govt reverse the policy by adding your name here www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

To repeal this would be a relatively 'easy' win, politically. And be life-changing for student access.

Please sign this.

It's really time for the ill-named Job-Ready Graduates policy to go. It is demonstrably poor policy, failing to meet its own (dubious) objectives and driving more rather than less educational inequality, in direct contravention of this government's stated priorities.

“If Labor won’t act to defend equity in education, what is the point of them – I mean, what do they really stand for?” Tim Winton “Only thing stopping labor from doing labor things is… labor” Australia Institute #auspol

Wow! Have a scroll through the names on this list #auspol

A thread you can direct some action to this Monday morning. The damage the policy has done, and the mindset it encourages, is significant and ongoing. An Arts degree is good for so much more than getting a job (which it also does, contrary to popular mythology).

Signed. An arts degree gave me everything I would have missed out on if I had studied anything else

I urge every Australian scholar, and every Australian citizen concerned about the future of our public universities, to sign this petition initiated by the Australian Historical Association.

I studied geography & history as part of my arts degree, which both formed a foundation for my professional career but also continues to give great personal pleasure. I don’t want others to be deprived of studying humanities through a Bachelor of Arts degree without a crippling HECS debt.

I'm a long standing critic of the JRG bill and more than happy to sign this petition from the Aus Hist Assoc here's me and James Flexner way back in 2020 having a go at this terrible piece of legislation

Good to see this open letter calling for the abolition of the Jobs Ready Graduate package - something @nteunion.bsky.social members have been calling for since its misguided and cynical introduction by the previous Coalition government.

My first degree was a BA, majoring in sociology and biological anthropology, sub-major in literary studies. An important foundation for everything I’ve done since - including a masters degree and doctorate from a faculty of medicine

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...

Proud to be one of many Australian arts graduates calling for a university policy and fee structure that champions the people who create Australia’s future www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... with thanks to @michellearrow.bsky.social and the AHA for taking the lead. Join us: advocate for change—

In “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” the author describes “inevitablism” as a tactic companies use to stop conversation about the amount of our private lives they are commodifying and selling.

Really strong piece on university funding in @thesaturdaypaper.com.au from Ashlyn Horton, President of the National Union of Students www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21185/...

NZ's Ministry for Culture and Heritage has been home to many exceptional historians and done invaluable work to promote understanding of the nation's past at home and around the world Now that the barbarians are in charge, that will be no more