Libby Robin

Example of a false premise at work here... More of the same isn't going to help.

But international students should not be paying for "national institutions"!! And they need teachers. This is a not a solution. Business model discriminates against education. More "jobs ready" => quick grab degrees for jobs & elsewhere. No preparation for what happens when jobs change. #humanities

Tasmania's election is over, so what happens now? For Tasmanians wondering when they might have a parliament in place and some certainty about who will have the support to govern, it could still be weeks off. However, the official process is already ...

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08... Now is the Winter of our Discontent. How about a seasonal adjustment of ALP leadership to someone who CAN work with Greens and at least some independents? The People Have Spoken. #democracy

ChatGPT is not your friend. Be careful what you tell it, lawyers warn People are sharing everything from their payslips, to blood results and relationship problems with AI – but experts say the risks are high.

www.afr.com/work-and-car... Amid privacy concerns like these, regular doctors are using AI for case histories. You have to "opt out" at my local doctor. Alas Big Pharma and doc-management groups can work together through AI. Not an opportunity for small local business. Just more #Colesworth

Oil Flows Again Monday, 4 August, 2025

More oil. 🤔 open.substack.com/pub/theclima...

KPMG up to mischief again. BigCons are smashing the sector and installing themselves & clones in leadership positions in Australia too. This is an international program dismantling teaching & research esp in humanities.

@beastlibrarian.bsky.social Libraries really need professional librarians and not managers like the person who sent around this mysterious note to the Friends of one library recently.

'Have a lovely week' is a very strange way to finish a letter sent last thing Friday afternoon...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Job at The Australia Institute in Canberra, Australia Apply for THE AUSTRALIA INSTITUTE Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Job in Canberra, Australia with Compensation: $90,000

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1 in 10 Australians are now millionaires: UBS report Recent surges in property values have boosted the number of Australian millionaires to a global high, the proportion of wealth held in cash and deposits is the lowest in Australia at just above 10 per...

Renter here. This is utterly cooked.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Attacks on the humanities at Australian universities are not new – but they are now more lethal | Julianne Schultz Punishing fees for arts degrees must be ended if the country seriously wants to take part in the information age and give students the opportunities we need them to have

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Studying humanities is too important to expect students to take on massive debt. Julianne Schultz

Sportsbet advertises multi-bets on AFL website after pulling TV ads due to ‘community sentiment’ Ads encouraging sport fans to ‘bet now’ do not breach any rules but gambling reform advocates say it shows industry attempts to self-regulate have failed

Sportsbet regulating itself is a joke.

The Govt must respond to the Murphy Inquiry and ban gambling ads.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/01/p... Why our energy companies can gouge us...

📚It was a day full of great talks and conversations about #Ukraine, books, and culture during wartime. The First #Ukrainian-Australian Book Festival 2025 has been a great success. Thanks to the Ukrainian Women’s Association Victoria for such a wonderful event and for inviting me to talk 🙏

How the mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was finally solved The platypus was a top secret gift from Australia, found dead in his enclosure as war raged in the seas around him.

www.bbc.com/news/article... Great to see @harrycroft.bsky.social getting @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social interested in platypus! [Winston stories are a winner]

When a Nation Sinks What Happens When a Country Ceases to Be

Tuvalu is not just a climate case study. It is a warning. It signals what is possible to happen in a world that continues to burn fossil fuels. If a nation can vanish and the world barely takes notice, what does that say about our collective future?

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'Have a lovely week' is a very strange way to finish a letter sent last thing Friday afternoon...

ChatGPT claims not to have written this. But it did notice *and comment on* the cliches, and on the anonymizing of both the exiting Friends manager and the writer of the letter.
It is crass corporate obfuscation, at least.
It is no way to raise donations from people who can read & love libraries!

@beastlibrarian.bsky.social Libraries really need professional librarians and not managers like the person who sent around this mysterious note to the Friends of one library recently.

Thoughtful students deserve fair assessment. Hand-written exams and free form research projects offer these. But they can't be marked by computers so don't suit those who run unis by sacking teachers & researchers. #AIisntFair

How the student debt cut still fails students As promised, Labor’s first act in the 48th parliament was to cut 20 per cent off all student debt. It’s a long-overdue move and undeniably welcome. Students have spent years shouting into the void abo...

How the student debt cut still fails students www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

About 100 people at the Hiroshima Day Rally at Sydney Town Hall today. Calls for the government to sign the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and say no to AUKUS. Speakers described the similarities of the WW2 bombings in Japan and the bombing of Gaza except now the killing is in slow motion.

The legal battlefield of parental alienation Parental alienation – where one parent tries to exclude a former partner from the life of their child – is proving a dilemma for the Family Court.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri... The violence of coercive control well documented by @janecaro.bsky.social Courts dealing with children need new resources in the Age of Devices

Daniel thought he'd never finish high school but flexible learning was a lifeline As school refusal numbers rise, one Victorian school has implemented a unique program to help re-engage students.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08... Kids are diverse... so education must be too. Otherwise we are training bullies to get away with it... and they end up running Corporations.

Russell Crowe's $650m 'Aussiewood' years away from shooting films A $650 million film-studio precinct in regional NSW backed by stars Russell Crowe and Jack Thompson is still years away from making movies, despite an injection of government funding.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08... A reminder of the level of noise pollution we all live with, all the time... they have to fix it to make a film!

I was terrified of bees – until the day 30,000 of them moved into my house | Pip Harry Two huge swarms have made themselves at home inside author Pip Harry’s house – but learning to live together revealed bees can be excellent housemates

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Cohabiting with bees #LivingInTheAnthropocene

George Johnston’s odyssey of war and peace • Paul Genoni & Tanya Dalziell Eighty years ago, with the Pacific war drawing to a close, the celebrated war correspondent set out on a perilous spiritual journey

insidestory.org.au/george-johns... In search of Shangri-La

‘The story of our language is the story of us: Will the Australian National Dictionary Centre go bung?’ by Amanda Laugesen and Frank Bongiorno The proposed abolition of the Australian National Dictionary Centre represents a significant retreat from the Australian National University’s long-standing commitment to supporting a national public ...

www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c... It's only words, but words are all we've got... #SaveOurDictionary @ouranu.bsky.social

The disastrous dismantling of the humanities in Australia’s universities has begun A crisis is unfolding for the humanities and social sciences at universities across the country.

The disastrous dismantling of the humanities in Australia’s universities has begun www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/31/a...

Greens must blow AUKUS out of the water - THE POLITICS With an 'opposition' that's as useful as deckhands on a submarine, it's up to David Shoebridge and co to fight the good fight against a deal that's sinking fast.

thepolitics.com.au/greens-must-...