Racism remains a key issue for AFL players while Indigenous women's players rate workplace culture low

Queensland, the ‘Corsica of the South’, wishes all who celebrate a happy Bastille Day / fête nationale 🍍🇫🇷

Sam Neill’s final films tell us a lot about who he was as an actor – and why we’ll miss him | Luke Buckmaster

now I don't know if people not in Australia can access ABC iview, but if you've never seen the hilarious Death in Brunswick with the beautiful Sam Neill and the equally incredible John Clarke, definitely worth a look at a couple of idiot larrikins... iview.abc.net.au/video/ZX0410...

Gonna watch this absolute classic of early 90s lo-fi Aussie cinema at next opportunity. RIP Sam Neill you legend

From Jurassic Park to The Piano, here are Sam Neill's best roles

man... truly one of the greats, we will miss you www.1news.co.nz/2026/07/13/k...

Maybe, the 2026 World Cup’s most important lesson will have less to do with football than with showing that national identity is not as fixed or straightforward as many nationalists imagine, Mohamad Elmasry writes. #Worldcup #diaspora #migration

Ryan Butta is quietly building up an important body of work in Aus history: this just arrived, and early indications are it’s extraordinary.

Skylab, 47 years ago today: erm look out Western Australia, huge space debris incoming, sorry ‘bout that Esperance shire council: chuck that junk on the back of the ute would ya, Barry, see if we can flog it on eBay. Oh and send those rude bastards at NASA a fine for littering

The Socceroos brought Australians of different backgrounds together around a shared hope. The World Cup reminded us that belonging does not require uniformity – only shared purpose, Mainul Haque writes. #Socceroos #MulticulturalAustralia #auspol

New mathematical modelling shows the first smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal people in the Sydney region may have spread thousands of kilometres and lasted decades.

Traces of Australian links to Atlantic slavery survive all around us, whether we realise it or not. Research by Prof @janelydon.bsky.social FAHA and Prof Zoë Laidlaw illuminates these connections and prompts us to seek new understandings of the past: lnkd.in/ebZ7dAUR

THE BLUES BROTHERS | EPISODE OUT NOW We're on a mission from God to tell the story behind Landis's 1980 musical-action classic. Big laughs, big opinions, big soundtrack. Listen now on every podcast platform. www.alltherightmovies.com/podcast/the-...

#OtD 10 Jul 1985 the French intelligence service blew up the @Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior, in a Aotearoa/NZ, killing Fernando Pereira, a photographer. The ship was headed to protest against French nuclear testing stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8208...

love this story about how Norway’s unusual sport system that prioritises fun and choice has produced a football team that is conquering this World Cup. what should Australia learn from this? www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Brisbane mentioned! Oh man there were some brilliant 80s gigs at Easts leagues club

Two papers pin the introduction of smallpox on British colonists and suggest that Australia held far more people than previously believed. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3R2lLmf

'According to Apra Amcos, the Covid-19 pandemic wiped out about 1,300 small and mid-sized live music venues – roughly one-third of the sector.' www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

The annual event is an opportunity to honour one of the world’s oldest continuing cultures, but its origins are in Australia’s first civil rights movements.

Actually, it was a volunteer archivist at The National Archives, Kew called Michael Scurr who found it, not the "UK" that found it. (with a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers). giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

wishing a happy ‘Fitzgerald Inquiry report submitted to Queensland parliament’ day to all who celebrate ⚖️

‘Don’t kill music’: Anthony Albanese’s favourite bands beg PM to stop AI companies from stealing their work

History shows immigration policy in Australia is full of yes-no contradictions: fear jostling with hope, exclusion with openness.

From the Australian Historical Association team: Australians are hungry for new history books – but historians are pressured not to publish locally theconversation.com/australians-...

Football’s global appeal lies in its power to create belonging, shared experience and everyday social cohesion across cultures, reminding diverse societies that connection is built not only through policy, but through common stories, Mainul Haque writes. #Football #WorldCup #SocialCohesion

You know what’d actually be “radical”? Properly funding higher education. Better pay and working conditions for academics. The end of a punitive surveillance model of governance. But sure, no. Let’s rip apart teaching and research. That’ll help. Fantastic.

Buzz Aldrin had one way of responding to conspiracy theorists. In our latest mailbag, @lornawallace.bsky.social offers some alternate approaches.

‘Anyone who thinks that the sportswashing which stains the contemporary game is a recent development might be grimly consoled by its precedents.’ Simon Skinner on the history of the World Cup, online early from the next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘David Bowie was a crazy workaholic’: Labyrinth at 40 – an oral history

Not the first time the Socceroos have used World Cup platform to promote multiculturalism. This article I co-authored examined how Australia’s successful first qualification for the 1974 World Cup was used to underline the nation’s 1970s ’multiculturalism moment’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So proud of our Socceroos ⚽️ ❤️👏🏼 Socceroos promote multiculturalism with video address on immigration: ‘Football is for everyone’ www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Today we are wishing a Happy Birthday to Maurice Sendak, who was born #onthisdate in 1928. If you've not read Where The Wild Things Are, read it today. Or if you've not read it for a while, read it today. And then let the wild rumpus start.

'(Ironically, the history degree has proven hugely valuable in a business that is all about first-hand reporting, detecting narrative bias and the second source.)' Weird use of 'ironically'. Surely this value is also part of why so many lawyers have studied history at university.

Known elsewhere as D-Day, Queenslanders today mark Queensland Day honouring those brave forebears who stormed the beaches at Southbank and liberated the Castlemaine Perkins brewery at Milton to the delight of war-weary local inhabitants. Lest we forget

Great news for lovers of community radio. Today, UTS (in Sydney) confirmed they'll commit to ongoing funding for 2SER-FM. It's in a diminished form, so there's more work to be done, but it survives. WOO HOOO Thank you for all your support so far. Go independent media! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Jaws franksfilmreview.com/2026/05/30/j... This year marks the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws — a film that didn’t just change how we look at movies but how we see the ocean itself. When Jaws burst onto the scene in 1975, it gripped audiences and redefined summer blockbusters...

calling for a national truth telling process on the anniversary of the 1967 referendum. It is 29 years since Bringing Them Home was tabled in the national parliament. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Tribute post for Siouxsie Sioux (Susan Janet Ballion) whose birthday it is today and who along with the Banshees heroically played a memorable set at the Livid Festival in West End on a sweltering hot, steamy day in 1993. So also a tribute to the diehard Brisbane goths who turned out in force 🦾🦇🖤

What a legacy. Here's my thoughts on the sad passing of the great Neale Daniher for @espnausnz.bsky.social

For women in war zones, heritage sites can go beyond worship and history. They are places of gendered socialising.

Neale Daniher: AFL great and motor neurone disease campaigner dies aged 65

This area has had a name for tens of thousands of years. Just use that name.

'It was the non-Britpop album that owned one of the peak Britpop summers, 1996. String-swept and chart friendly but angry and unsentimental too, it was led into battle by ‘A Design for Life’ – with a claim on track of the decade.' #ManicStreetPreachers – Everything Must Go at 30 buff.ly/qSjI6in

IMHO the way Collingwood has gone about crassly commercialising the bejeezus out of Pendlebury’s milestone game is about as far as you can get from “style”

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

A gloomy World Goth Day to all who celebrate 🖤 Shout out to the goths of Brisbane/Magandjin, hardest and most committed of any city subculture 💪🦇 stories.uq.edu.au/contact-maga...

#OtD 22 May 1968 footballers in Paris occupied the French Football Association headquarters declaring "Football to the Footballers." They issued a statement demanding the immediate dismissal of football "profiteers" and for football without profits shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

A rediscovered academic paper from 1921 suggests New Zealand’s classic ‘fush and chups’ vowel sounds may have emerged fastest in Auckland’s colonial melting pot.

The Tasmanian government has apologised for body parts being collected and displayed without consent. This is not the first time this has happened in Australia.