Mia Martin Hobbs

Huge thanks to everyone who supported me along the way! It truly takes a village to get a DECRA submitted!

(And if you're a potential PhD candidate interested in modern warfare - or you know someone who is - I will be recruiting a doctoral researcher on the project soon, so please get in touch!)

To all those outstanding researchers who missed out this year - you are deserving and it is utterly unfair how much work goes into these applications when so few are funded. I hope we will see a better system in the ARC the future.

It's beginning to sink in! Yesterday I was awarded a #DECRA for my research on race, gender, and violence in the War on Terror at Deakin University. This has been years in the making and I am so grateful that I can pursue my dream project!

#oralhistory #security #waronterror

Thank you so much Kristen!

This text is taken from the Jan-June 2026 UNSW Press catalogue (too much to fit in this box) - https://unsw.press/catalogues/

Happy to share my new book 'Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War', which will be published by UNSW Press on 1 April 2026.

I know this is the least of problems with this, but it REALLY bothers me that AI trump isn’t hitting the cowbell in time

Latest issue of AJPH is online: special issue Australia & Vietnam: 50-Year Legacy @miamh.bsky.social & Tom Richardson eds). Includes Alexander & Ariotti “Laid to Rest in Australian Soil”: Legacies of Repatriation Policy Change during Vietnam War. Check it out. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678497...

I’m really pleased at the mix of approaches we were able to include. We’ve got strategy! ✅ R&R! ✅ pacification! ✅ repatriation! ✅ romances! ✅ veteran experiences - Australian and Vietnamese! ✅ ✅

Almost all articles are Open Access so check them out! 👀

It was great fun editing this SI with Tom Richardson and working with all our authors, incl @jonpiccini.bsky.social @kristenauthor.bsky.social and @annawilkinson.bsky.social who are each taking new and original approaches to the study of the Vietnam War in Aus

Special Issue: Australia and Vietnam: The Fifty Year Legacy: Australian Journal of Politics & History: Vol 71, No 3 Click on the title to browse this issue

The Special Issue of AJPH on ‘Australia and Vietnam: the Fifty Year Legacy’ is finally out! 🥳🥳🥳

#VietnamWar #history #auspol

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678497...

i am going to say something very mean

if you cannot handle footnotes, it is not that there are too many footnotes, it is actually a you problem

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:

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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 💪💪💪