Mia Martin Hobbs

Story in The Australian Super tax ‘the last straw’ for this cattle farmer Helen Trinca Craig Huf, a farmer from Burringbar in far north NSW, will pull one of his farms out of super because of the tax on unrealised capital gains Cattle farmer Craig Huf says the federal government’s proposed superannuation tax will likely be the “straw that breaks the camel’s back” forcing him to pull his $3m farm out of his self-managed super fund.

Good!!! A farm is NOT MEANT TO BE IN YOUR SUPER!!!

The ONLY reason anyone would put a farm in their super IS TO AVOID PAYING TAX!!

"I asked ChatGPT” “I asked grok” ok well I consulted the archive

41 years later...
Huge thanks to APH and @miamh.bsky.social for letting me share some thoughts on the state of nuclear records in Aus and the UK💥

Google sites which has now been bought by Squarespace but same interface and cost - $23 a year, very easy to use

This week marks 41 years since the Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests began; a process that was marred by govt obstruction. Four decades on, Max Billington reveals the ongoing difficulties that researchers face when trying to uncover this history in the archives

aph.org.au/2025/07/ghos...

🙋‍♀️ in @auspolicyhistory.bsky.social - this is a comprehensive new proposal for reworking the ADF to forge an independent defence strategy and tackle the climate threat, from one of Australia’s leading military historians

“The Pause That Refreshes”: American Servicemen on R&R in Australia, 1967–1971 Nearly 10% of the 3 million Americans who served in Vietnam spent one week of “R&R” leave in Australia—principally in Sydney. This “friendly invasion” constitutes a substantial neglected legacy of th...

“The Pause That Refreshes”: American Servicemen on R&R in Australia, 1967–1971.

New from our DP about US troops on R&R during the Vietnam War (and acronyms), part of a special issue on neglected legacies of the war edited by @miamh.bsky.social

#CFP Inaugural SHAFR-in-Asia Pacific Workshop, to be held 3-4 March 2026 on the campus of the Singapore Management University. Participants will present and workshop dissertation/book chapters or article drafts—apply by October 1!

cis.smu.edu.sg/events/call-...

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Back to WFH in Melbourne winter = neighbours at the bus stop directly in front of my window staring at me wiggling to the Gap Band at my standing desk in my hot pink sleeping bag onesie

Headline of ABC article ‘Australia’s status as an aloof observer of faraway events could soon be tested’

ABC’s new political editor really hitting with the ahistorical headlines here 🤨

"The endgame of a 2,611-year-old Jewish-Persian enmity Premium Israel’s operations against Iran were limited to eliminating Tehran’s strategic capabilities, but may have unforeseen consequences in the region and beyond"

Only in the Middle East are relatively comprehensible modern conflicts rooted in the balance of power of nation-states reduced to quasi-mystical "ancient hatreds."

Moderately threatening, IWM, but ok

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...

Not a bad spot to begin a book review! Taking in Albert Palazzo’s proposal for a new national security outlook with a dram on the River Clyde

#natsec #glasgow

best reaction i've yet seen to someone blasting unwanted music from their phone on the subway: a bunch of teens shouting endless requests.

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Originally inspired by pondering how this was supposed to be a serious world leader on whom Australia depends for our security

Imperial Nostalgia in Australian Defence Policy in the 21st Century This article explores the recent history of the United Kingdom—Australia defence relationship in context of the Australia—United Kingdom—United States (AUKUS) submarine agreement. Drawing on defenc...

This opinion piece draws from my recent research into the Australian-UK defence relationship in the C21st:

doi.org/10.1080/1444...

My latest in Australian Outlook for the @aiianational.bsky.social, on the role of imperial nostalgia in the #AUKUS pact and the dangers it poses to Australian #security

www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianou...

Yucca lies defeated on concrete

Geared up for an endless battle against the yucca tree from the one patch of soil in my garden. Ready with axe and spade to destroy the spiky bastard over many lunch breaks.

I ripped it out in ten minutes with my BARE HANDS. Evidently it was already dead but still WITH MY BARE HANDS 💪💪💪

A Profession, If You Can Keep It Imagined meritocracies mean little to extractive institutions.

"But let’s be clear: this 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be . . . You are suffering from the effects of intentional systemic understaffing."

Adoption and Multiculturalism Adoption and Multiculturalism features the voices of international scholars reflecting transnational and transracial adoption and its relationship to notions of multiculturalism. The essays trouble co...

@indigowilling.bsky.social Dr Indigo Willing's recent edited book on adoption in Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific: press.umich.edu/Books/A/Adop...

Indigo's article on fairy tales and diasporic belonging among the Viet adoptee community: quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/t...

Please go and read Anh and Indigo’s work:

Dr Anh Nguyen on post-traumatic growth among refugee communities: doi.org/10.1093/jrs/...

Anh's story of her family's escape: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

(And BTW Peter Cosgrove, that is what those student protestors you blame our ‘uncivility’ on are doing - they are reckoning with the ‘carnage of war’, as you call it, and refusing to be silent about genocide)

Focussing on geopolitical debates and ADF’s recruitment problems without reflecting on the human costs of war is exactly the mentality that will lead us into another one.

Instead, the ABC shared my work alongside a lecture by former ADF chief Peter Cosgrove on civility and Australia’s readiness for war.

We cannot EVER understand the ‘spectre of war’ without listening to the stories of survivors. War history is incomplete without the histories of refugees it creates.

A talk I gave at an ACU seminar on PTSD and legacies of Vietnam is featured in tonight’s ABC Big Ideas ep, ‘The Spectre of War’

I am very disappointed that Big Ideas did not feature my co-presenters, Dr Anh Nguyen and Dr Indigo Willing, who expertly weaved personal stories with scholarly insights.

I literally gave a lecture about this in 2018. It's so weird watching "experts" and boosters drag their feet to this entirely predictable conclusion. It's almost like the history of automation can, like, tell us stuff.

I don't think Chain Gang All-Stars was supposed to be something to aspire to

At this point we maybe need to rename the Streisand effect.

Ben Roberts-Smith did a Ben Roberts-Smith and now he’s gone and Ben Roberts-Smith’d himself AGAIN

Richard Travers and Peter Stanley survey the state of the field of Australian military history Published in History Australia (Ahead of Print, 2025)

🙋‍♀️ in @historyaustralia.bsky.social reviewing Richard Travers and Peter Stanley - two very different approaches to the historiography of war in Aus doi.org/10.1080/1449...

#Ozhistory #Anzac