Emily Gallagher

Your support is needed - sign the petition opposing the Job-ready Graduates Scheme www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

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Repeal Job-Ready Graduates Policy Now: Restoring Equity in Higher Education - Online petition We sign this petition in solidarity with those who signed the Open Letter to the Prime Minister on 28 July 2025 (about:blank). We also write as individuals with a range of political beliefs. We are de...

If you would like to add your voice in support, you can sign here:

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Tim Winton among 100 high-profile Australians calling for university fees that don’t ‘punish’ arts students Open letter urges Labor to reverse JRG scheme, introduced by Coalition in 2021, as cost of humanities degrees reaches more than $50,000

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...

Ministry for Culture and Heritage confirms 80 percent cut in senior historian roles Manatū Taonga is going ahead with cutting the jobs of most of its historians.

No country for historians.

History matters but not to this government and this Minister who was himself once a historian. Et tu, Brute!

25 years ago the Ministry (my first job as a historian) was a powerhouse and now just a shadow. #HistoryMatters #history www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

We 💜 #ANU students.

Students led yesterday's incredible rally, and School of Music students have staged an all-night concert until this morning. Well done to #Woroni covering it.

@nteunion.bsky.social members know that staff working conditions are student learning conditions.

The jewel in the crown of the ANU • Inside Story Celebrated by previous vice-chancellors, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and its fellow national project, the Australian National Dictionary, are threatened by university cuts

"Who else will nurture and defend the languages, cultures and histories of this continent, who else will tell the life stories of this place, who else will cultivate our capacity to share a common reference point of understanding?"

@ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social

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ADB team members @michellestaff.bsky.social & @as-ruby.bsky.social have reviewed the National Library of Australia's Fit to Print exhibition for @historyaustralia.bsky.social 📸

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📷 Women playing rugby, 1930, NLA

Never mind that they're the top ranked anthropologists in Australia, and in the top ten in the world. This is how they're treated

Read Prof Bongiorno’s full response to the CASS change proposal here: shorturl.at/VBhCO

We have published it alongside other staff feedback on ANU CMPs.

We welcome everyone to publicly share their own responses to ANU cuts (anonymously if you prefer) by emailing them to: ourANU25@gmail.com

STRIKE back against ANU job cuts CASS people’s town hall

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. ✊

From bluey to bogans: Researchers who help define how the nation speaks to lose their jobs For almost 40 years, the words the nation uses in speech, newspapers and books has been mapped by a small team at the Australian National Dictionary Centre.

This is such cultural and intellectual vandalism. The Australian National Dictionary Centre is straightforwardly the sort of thing a national university worthy of the designation would support and sustain

AAH raise alarm over ANU cuts & the national capability at risk ANU restructuring of humanities & social sciences programs warning that the cuts pose a threat to Australia’s sovereign capability

'[T]he proposed closure of long-standing national infrastructure and capabilities—including the Humanities Research Centre, the European Studies Centre, and the Australian National Dictionary Centre...represents the loss of irreplaceable national assets.'

humanities.org.au/news/alarm-o...

Reaching financial sustainability ANU • In mid-2024, revised financial assessments of the ANU revealed the need for a $250m reduction in spend across the University. • The CASS 2026 forward planning estimate (target) is $62m. • To achieve this baseline, the change proposal includes two financial responses needed address our full year (2025) deficit forecast v planning estimate of $9.5m • Net savings proposed against budget $6.1m • Plus pre-existing negative variance (2025 forecast v budget allocation) is an additional $3.4m • Meeting this target has required us to look carefully at our current operations to consider how we might both contract and grow areas of our business to reach target and assure future financial sustainability .

ANU executives spent $11M on travel, in the latest available reporting year. This year, ANU college of arts and social sciences is being forced to cut $6.1M. Make this make sense. vimeo.com/1098376260/f...

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We've teamed up with the @nationalmuseumaus.bsky.social to produce a special entry on the creator of Mr Squiggle, Norman Hetherington 🎨

Have a read, then check out the exhibition Mr Squiggle and Friends: The Creative World of Norman Hetherington

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📷 NMA

Maybe ‘Sonix’?

In Conversation with Kerrie Davies Kerrie Davies will be in conversation with Michelle Staff on her new book Miles Franklin Undercover The little-known years when she created her own brilliant career – A powerful story of a young woman...

Next month the National Centre of Biography is teaming up with Harry Hartog for an in-conversation event all about Dr Kerrie Davies' new book, Miles Franklin Undercover.

Register to attend now 👇

www.harryhartog.com.au/blogs/author...

@kerriecanwrite.bsky.social @michellestaff.bsky.social

Finding and telling the stories of LGBTQI+ people from the past can be challenging, especially when the archives are full of silences. But, as Sylvia Martin shows, it can be done 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pa...

📷 Aileen Palmer ANU Archives

Image of a flyer introducing the Identifying Precarious Victorian Oral History Collections Project

I'm excited to share details about The Identifying Precarious Victorian Oral History Collections Project! This project is identifying & creating a list of precarious oral history collections held in Victoria, Australia. Tell us about your collection via www.precariousoralhistories.com #oralhistory

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Pacific History Full time, fixed term for 3 years Opportunity for research in Pacific history in the Discipline of History First Nations and Pacific Nations candidates strongly encouraged to apply Academic Level A6-8...

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.

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Are the Liberals in danger of becoming the Kodak of Australian politics? • Frank Bongiorno The party is taking a long time to understand its plight

This analysis of the election by Frank Bongiorno is perfect. Will the Liberals listen? I doubt it.
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Nuclear Australia: an on-again, off-again history • Jessica Urwin Is Peter Dutton’s energy plan going the way of a succession of nuclear pushes?

“Much has changed since the nuclear power discussions of the 1950s, 60s and even 70s. But the similarities between those debates and the one we are having today are stark.” Jessica Irwin on seventy on-again, off-again years…

Cover image of ‘We are a farming class’: Dubbo’s hinterland, 1870–1950

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"Great history combines warm-heartedness and cool appraisal. Peter Woodley brings both to this superb history of the place of his own origins, the farmlands of the Dubbo district" — @frankbongiorno.bsky.social

Purchase a copy or download doi.org/10.22459/WAF...

Thanks Mike ☺️

YouTube video by BBC Archive 1970: VICTORIAN TEENAGERS reminisce | Yesterday's Witness | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

If you have 10 mins and want to watch real Edwardian women talk about their experiences of being teenagers at the turn of the century, then this is for you. youtu.be/pv6V1yHvJyo?...

ANU’s latest scandal shows us why transparency is so important, and where to start Governance at Australia’s universities is in a dire state.

ANU’s latest scandal shows us why transparency is so important, and where to start.

New from @jack-thrower.bsky.social and @joshuablackjb.bsky.social ⤵️

Announcing our first seminar for the year! Friday 28 March, 1-2pm AEDT, on Zoom. Anna Gilderdale, Edgar Liao and Nell Musgrove will discuss "The Challenges of Researching the Histories of Childhood and Youth." ChiYHA is a network of scholars in Australasia working on children's and youth history.

Screenshot of journal article front page. Title: “First Blood”: The 1960s Origins of the Australian Sharpie Youth Culture. Author: Paul "Nazz" Oldham, UniSA. Abstract: The sharpies were a uniquely Australian youth culture that lasted from the early 1960s into the 1980s and were a significant continuation of the trajectory of Australian, male-dominated, working-class, consumption-based, rowdy youth-cultural traditions, which include the bodgies and widgies of the 1950s and the larrikins of the 1860s to 1918. Sharpies are under-discussed in social narratives and academic texts. This article focuses on the life cycle of the original generation of sharpies. In addition to exploring the origins of sharpie culture, I explore why it provided an outlet for its bored suburban, working-class youths, present explanations for behavioural attitudes and offer some insight into its attraction. I also explore how the first generation of this youth culture came to its natural end, how it was picked up again by the next generation and why. In learning about the sharpies’ activities and behaviours, from the egregious to the mundane, we open ourselves to learning something not just about suburban, working-class Australian youths but about all young people who take part in group-based youth cultures.

Start your week right with some reading from 49.1.

Oldham looks at 1960s sharpie culture as an outlet for working class suburban youth and how it resonated through later youth subcultures.

#OzStudies #YouthStudies #OpenAccess

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Happy International Women’s Day! 🌏

Check out our entry on businesswoman Gladys Sym Choon, the latest woman to be added to the ADB 📘

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#internationalwomensday

📣 We're thrilled to announce the winner of the 2025 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship is Michelle Staff for her proposed joint biography of sisters Bessie Rischbieth & Olive Evans. Monique Rooney & Jennifer Martin also received Highly Commended Awards. Read more on www.writersvictoria.org.au 🧡

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Calling all historians/biographers/writers/readers/lovely people 🤸

We've just joined this platform and would love to build a nice little community on here 📚

Let's start the conversation! We want to know: what's your most visited ADB entry? 🤔 Comment below!

📷 State Library of South Australia