Kate Fullagar

Fascinating story. @newrepublic.com

Me three months ago:

Shorten reeeeeally grasping for straws here. “Can’t wave a wand.” My man, they’ve been in power for over three YEARS. They just spent 20b on debt relief. The cost of scrapping JRG (they say here) is 1b They have lost the messaging here @australianlabor.bsky.social archive.is/rxSze

Thank you @austhistassoc.bsky.social for addressing the abomination that is Job-Ready Graduates and petitioning the Albo Labor Government to repeal it #auspol. We need more grads and esp. lawyers from Indigenous and other minority backgrounds, not fewer!

@austhistassoc.bsky.social taking a lead here. Pls sign this petition and share it around:) www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

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 (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/28/open-letter-to-australian-govern...

Very cool. Though much of this research undertaken by @austhistassoc.bsky.social Help take action by addressing our petition: :) www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

Great news. Such a pity Australia was not be a leader on this... a very great shame, in fact.

More media on this. Now me on ABC Lismore radio at the 45 minute mark: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... See also our list of media growing here on the petition: www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

The new HELP repayment system and lifetimes of student debt The prime minister says that a degree should not come with a lifetime of debt. For that goal, the government’s HELP legislation introduced last week is contradictory. It will cut all debt owe…

The government's proposed HELP repayment system puts more female debtors at risk of a lifetime of debt. andrewnorton.id.au/2025/07/29/t...

Now with a signatory Peter Tesch (former ambassador to Germany, Russia, and former Dep Sec Defence) on ABC radio at 35 minute mark, explaining and demonstrating the value of his BA: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Teaching Students to Read Secondary Sources with Age of Revolutions By Erika Vause In his seminal 1961 essay “The Historian and His Facts,” E.H. Carr compared writing history to preparing fish. Carr argued against seeing history as a “corpus of ascertained facts” l…

Working on fall syllabi? Consider incorporating @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social articles in your courses! Check out Erika Vause's "Teaching Students to Read Secondary Sources with Age of Revolutions" here. ageofrevolutions.com/2022/03/14/t...

Well, and the millions who voted for them. And the many more millions who appeased them. And the even more millions who decided that it was better to adore a US that never existed than get real about the suffering it inflicted on itself.

‘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 in @australia.theguardian.com today. Good question @australianlabor.bsky.social

The @austhistassoc.bsky.social is proud to have initiated this open letter asking for the repeal of the egregious JRG punishment of humanities and social sciences in Australia. Read about the 100 signatories below, and please sign in solidarity yourself: www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

From the Anu community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the Anu community

"I can guarantee you no side of politics will justify a quarter of a billion dollars a year on someone’s Cybernetic futures interdisciplinary vanity project, no matter how well meaning they are." @ouranu.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/Anu/commen...

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

"Professor Parry has defended the Change Proposals by stating that the ADB could easily have been cut altogether. She appears to regard the ADB as an academic unit within the gift of the dean rather than as a collaborative national institution" inside.org.au/the-jewel-in...

How to disappear a problem • Dean Ashenden The school system has spent fifty years not fixing one of its central flaws

insidestory.org.au/how-to-disap... this is a great article. Let me point out that major major structural reform has happened in our school system before. In the second part of the 19thC all Australian states abolished all state aid to private schools. #histed

👆🏼land grants girl.

@capandgown.bsky.social

Why do they hate us? That’s the question academics in the humanities are asking. - Graeme Turner This is the question I was asked last week. Why are government, the media, even university administrations, so carelessly participating in the gradual demolition of one of the foundation stones of our...

An especially good one today on the humanities in Oz. Every word true. graemeturner.org/2025/07/20/w...

The decline of history teaching threatens our future leaders - ABC listen History Professor Chris Wallace is worried about the decline in both enrolments in, and the offering of, history and other humanities subjects at Australian universities, which she says has resulted i...

Excellent from @chriswallace.bsky.social on the decline of history in Australia. Late Night Live www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

You have all these credentials and you don’t know how MAGA works ?

This. Of Course they will let it go.

None. Of. This. Matters. Scandal will not help you guys. You gotta know this by now. Find a constitutional way.

"What has been too often neglected is the sitter himself—Mai. While most observers of the portrait mention Mai’s two-year stay in Britain from 1774 to 1776, courtesy of James Cook’s second returning Pacific voyage, they usually skip over Mai’s motivations or post-visit life." 🗃️

Reflections on Mai, Joshua Reynolds, and Eighteenth-Century Art — A Roundtable Roundtable Participants: Kate Fullagar, Miriama Bono, Pauline Reynolds, Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones, Peter McNeil, Monica Anke Hahn, Carl Vail, Peter Brunt. In March 2023, the longstanding battle for owne...

Delighted to see this conversation out in J18, reproducing our workshop on #joshuareynolds, #mai and #18thcenturyart www.journal18.org/nq/reflectio...

Quite. Why anyone thinks that trump being revealed in the Epstein files would make the slightest difference is beyond me.

Totally. My summer costs are virtually nothing due to solar. And I run ac. A Lot. My heating costs are v bad….

The number of things that Dems never made an issue of regarding this man would take me a lifetime to list.