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I’m not a fancy big city lawyuh, but I’m pretty sure that’s not how copyright works.

Weekender: One Battle After Another and Spinal Tap II tell very different stories of the world - ABC listen With two major films launching this week, The Screen Show's Jason Di Rosso pops in to share his thoughts. One of Hollywood's major auteurs, Paul Thomas Anderson, brings us his second adaptation of Th...

An early edition of Arts in 30 Weekender, with Jason Di Rosso joining us for a chat about One Battle After Another and Spinal Tap II

Arts In 30 - ABC listen Your weekly dose of news and interviews from ABC Radio National’s arts and culture team.

Very glad to be able to speak to ABC RN's Arts in 30 about the closure of Meanjin.
Thanks, @skykirkham.bsky.social
Discussion starts at 20mins:

Weekender: The Studio sweeps the Emmy's, the lingering power of The Names, and a Springsteen rarity revealed - ABC listen Claire Nichols from The Book Show joins the team to talk through the biggest name in comedy at the moment: The Studio. With a record-breaking 13 Emmy's at the 2025 awards, we share our takes on what's...

Second episode of the Weekender is up - featuring guest host Claire Nichols. We look at the huge success of The Studio, share book tips (The Names and What We Can Know), music tips (Springsteen and Wisp) and pay tribute to Robert Redford.

Ah, yes, what a shock, who could have seen this coming, it's not like it has been a long standing issue with facial recognition systems since inception or anything...

“No Guernicas, no sacred places”: On the closure of Meanjin - Overland literary journal Australia’s literary culture depends for its life on its journals. Literary journals are not just clearing houses for pithy snatches of commentary and readable middlebrow fiction — they’re incubators ...

The deputy editor speaks

overland.org.au/2025/09/no-g...

WGA Statement on ABC's Decision to Pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

RIP to Robert Redford, one of the best to ever do it (and a dozen other things on top of that)

Here’s an excerpt from a 2017 interview that he did with Esquire, in which he discusses his career, the Trump presidency and a slew of other things all very articulately

Remember him for the work

Thorough and fascinating examination of what remains publically known (and unknown) around the decision to end Meanjin

Australian War Memorial defers military history prize after judging panel awards it to book on Ben Roberts-Smith Exclusive: Governing council ‘retrospectively’ decides the Les Carlyon literary award should go only to first-time authors, ruling out Chris Masters’ book

Australian War Memorial defers military history prize after judging panel awards it to book on Ben Roberts-Smith - story by Paul Daley www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Weekender: The case for genre fiction in the Top 100 and a new Australian supergroup - ABC listen Welcome to the Arts in 30 Weekender, where we're setting the news aside and sharing our tips on what to check out and what to skip from the world of the arts. With voting for the Radio National Top 1...

A new weekly extra for Arts in 30 - we set the news aside and bring you our tips on what to check out and what to skip from the world of arts. This week: Why genre fiction deserves a place in the top books of the century (we pick Mieville and Pratchett), and the new album from Bleak Squad

1 / 1 Letter in support of Meanjin’s future As members of the Publishing and Communications program’s staff at the University of Melbourne, we strongly support the continued existence of Meanjin Quarterly. From direct involvements with the journal during the past 25 years and more, we personally attest to the formative role Meanjin has played in the development of writers, editors and publishers, and an independent Australian cultural voice. The creative labour of thousands resonates deeply in the fabric of this cultural institution founded by Clem Christesen in Meanjin/Brisbane in 1940. We call on the University of Melbourne to recognise the rich and continuing social, political and literary value of Meanjin by ensuring its future. The journal is a living resource for our teaching, and vital to our students. Its publications fill our reading lists with ideas from the best minds of our time. It has uplifted many of our students through publication, internships, partnerships and employment, and its connection to the University is part of what makes our writing and editing programs valuable and comparable to other leading universities on the international stage. We believe the University’s enduring purpose of benefiting society compels it to take swift action to preserve the journal and sustain its continued publication, preferably within the University itself. At the very least, the University should do all it can, acting in good faith, to transfer the journal’s cultural and IP assets to another institution prepared to save it. Culturally, the University of Melbourne has benefited immensely from its support of the journal since 1945; the extinction of the journal would be its enduring loss but an even greater loss to the community the University serves. Signed by: Sybil Nolan Tim Coronel Matt Holden LJ Maher Fiannuala Morgan Sharon Mullins Beth Driscoll Claire Parnell Nicola Redhouse Hollen Singleton Bec Kavanagh

Re #MeanjinJournal, a letter from myself and some of my colleagues to The University of Melbourne. #Meanjin is such an important part of Australia's literary ecosystem and losing it would be culturally and industrially devastating. #AusLit #AustralianWriters #Publishing #Unimelb

Meanjin to close after 85 years and Anthropic agrees to $1.5 Billion dollar settlement with authors - ABC listen Meanjin is set to shut down after 85 years, with the board of their publisher, Melbourne University Press, saying that it’s a purely financial decision.  But is financial viability the metric that a ...

Should probably have included a link to this... www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

On Arts in 30: With Meanjin set to close after 85 years, @greenj.bsky.social looks at the finances of running a literary mag and @beneltham.bsky.social explains why he's organising a protest to save it. And @jennifermills.net.au on what the $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement will mean for Aus writers

Thank you for the outpouring of support over the past few days, and for the memories being shared.

The complete Meanjin archive will be put online and made available for free from February 2026. In the meantime, current print and digital subscribers continue to have full access to it. (1 of 2)

Frequently Asked Questions Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) announced on 4 September 2025 that Meanjin will cease publication after its final edition in December 2025. For questions related to the impact of this announc…

There is an FAQ page up on the website to answer some of the questions being asked about subscriber refunds, which we will process expeditiously. This page will be updated with new developments.

meanjin.com.au/frequently-a...

For any questions, please email us: meanjin@unimelb.edu.au (2 of 2)

Warner Bros. Joins Studios’ AI Copyright Battle Against Midjourney Warner Bros. has become the third studio to sue Midjourney for blatant infringement on its copyrighted characters.

Warner Brothers is the latest studio to file suit against Midjourney. For the backstory on this, check out our interview with @rahll.bsky.social from the first time around www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

I worked with meanjin a few years ago on supporting its sales to close the incredibly small gap between its revenue and costs.
It had made progress. The small amount needed to subsidise could be found if UofM saw literary culture as important.
It clearly doesn't.

Tropfest lives, and filmmaking under the eye of the Iranian government - ABC listen Tropfest, the biggest short film festival in the world, has been resurrected six years after it was last staged. With a slew of sponsors and partners, the new Tropfest must contend with a world which ...

On the show this week, we heard about the revival of Tropfest, and explored what it means to be a female Iranian documentary maker, both inside that country and in diaspora.

I'm not sure what the legalities would be around the brand name and archives, but it seems to me that every other university in Australia with a publishing arm should be competing to bring Meanjin in under their roof. Even ignoring the importance of the institution, the good will would be priceless

Difficult for me to be objective about this given that I’ve been published by Meanjin and count the current editor as a friend - but objectively or subjectively, any way you look at it this is an appalling decision and one that will further and greatly diminish Australia’s literary culture.

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

Exclusive: Australia’s second-oldest literary journal, Meanjin, is being shut down today for "financial" reasons, Crikey can reveal.

My Votes: Levels of Life (2013) - Julian Barnes Grief is the Thing With Feathers (2015) - Max Porter Quicksilver (2003) - Neal Stephenson The Argonauts (2015) - Maggie Nelson The Sellout (2015) - Paul Beatty 10:04 (2014) - Ben Lerner Her Body and Other Parties (201) - Carmen Maria Machado Citizen: An American Lyric (2015) - Claudia Rankin The Scar (2002) - China Mieville Sudden Death (2016) - Alvaro Enrigue (Not available to vote for, so missing from this list: Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward)

My vote for the Radio National Top 100 books of the 21st century. To pick yours, head to www.abc.net.au/listen/radio...

When someone started tampering with Tylenol bottles in 1982 the company recalled $100 million worth of bottles immediately even though they clearly weren't at fault

Major changes in Opera Australia leadership and Campbell Addy's eye for movement - ABC listen After a challenging 12 months, which saw the exit of the CEO and artistic director and a ten million dollar operating deficit, Opera Australia has announced a new leadership team: new CEO, new Chair, ...

On the show this week - major changes at the top of Opera Australia. Why has the company struggled with both leadership and finances in recent years?

And Campbell Addy, headliner at the Ballarat Foto Biennale, takes us behind the scenes of a cover shoot and into his practice.

‘Lack of respect’: Art Gallery staff walk out over job losses The stop work on Wednesday comes as the Minns government authorised a $9 million increase to the staff budget for the Powerhouse Museum.

Protest at AGNSW today over planned job cuts. Part of a bigger story about arts funding in NSW and nationally.

A lot of media has normalised to a level of "oh so we're doing [thing] now," a willingness to publish whatever someone says and to let the reader decide its validity, as if the journalist is simply there to convey statements rather than any analysis of any kind

Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

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