Russell Goulbourne

Anglican Priest | Mission Chaplain — Diocese of Melbourne | Professor of French Literature @UniMelb | Former Dean @ArtsUnimelb

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

ABC News Australia doing what BBC News haven't done yet, name the Bondi Beach hero in their rolling live news broadcast:

Inala Cooper, "What I was reflecting on this morning was the footage of the civilian, the unarmed man, Ahmed el Ahmed, a 43 year old fruit shop owner"

"When I was watching the footage, he was sort of creeping up behind the gunman"

"And I was thinking is this person trained, are we going to discover he was in the army?"

"Or is he a person who knows how to handle this kind of situation?"

"So to discover this morning that he's a community member, a business owner, and went straight towards this danger with incredible bravery, it's just incredible"

"For many who were there, including Ahmed el Ahmed, just running to help, preventing many other injuries and deaths"

[Russell Goulbourne @FrenchProfessor]

Extraordinary — and extraordinarily disappointing — to hear a bishop saying Christianity has little to say on the question of human dignity 🤯

[MyDeath, MyDecision @MDMDmydecision]

Former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord George Carey, has been on both sides of the assisted dying debate over the years. He now asks his fellow Peers, "Do we really want to stand in the way of this bill?"

[Shelby Kearns @shelbytkearns]

This is easily one of the top 10 non-fiction books of the decade. The Epilogue presents the exciting potential of post-secular scholarship in which academia, returning to its roots, takes the miraculous seriously.

[Sean Canty @seancantytxt]

Today @guardian shakes up the idea of universities as ivory towers. In fact, they add to the liveliness and prosperity of their towns and cities 📰
https://t.co/T7tsZmF01I

It draws on work by @CentreforCities to understand universities' role as exporters and employers 👇

[Acyn @Acyn]

Zuckerberg saying Meta intends to spend at least 600 billion in the US

Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic

[Russell Goulbourne @FrenchProfessor]

@mochatte1 If it wasn’t bad enough that ‘Meanjin’ is being shelved, we now find out that the art of rhetoric is well and truly dead…

[Rory Bremner 💙🇺🇦 @rorybremner]

If only Angela Rayner had followed the Telegraph’s advice. Then they might not call her a hypocrite.

[Tim @TimurNegru]

If you had €280k ($328k), would you buy this French former minor seminary of Nozeroy?

- 3,000 m² (32,300 sq ft) of historic buildings from 1811-1830
- 1.5 hectares (3.7 acres) of parkland & grounds
- Original Gothic chapel with stained glass windows
- 3 full floors of convertible space (2,580 m² each level!)
- Stone vaulted cellars + massive attic space
- Medieval town of 500 people, 15 min to TGV station
- 2h50 to Paris by train
- 1h20 to Switzerland border
- Built on ancient ramparts with panoramic valley views

The chapel alone is 325 m² of pure architectural poetry. The dormitories could become luxury apartments. The park has its own entrance gate.

What would you do with it?

[Dominic Grieve @dominicgrieve_]

Your post is quite astonishing.
You either believe in jury trial or you do not. For as long as I can remember the Conservative Party has seen it as a key part of our freedom under law. If so, you have to accept the right of a jury to bring in a verdict with which you might disagree.
You call it "two tier justice" and try to blame the Labour government for something that you know or ought to know has nothing to do with them. That is the hallmark of the the rabble rouser not a Shadow Home Secretary.

[Russell Goulbourne @FrenchProfessor]

Enjoying a coffee in my @VoltaireOxford travel cup while I watch the boys play soccer at Manningham Juventus FC in Doncaster: an almost typical Aussie Saturday morning ⚽️

[PRO Victoria @PRO_Vic]

Shortlists for the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced including 5 non-fiction and 5 Australian history books to add to your reading list: https://t.co/jnXm5GjPOJ

[Cambridge University Library @theUL]

A notable new addition to our collections is the complete set of fourteen issues of the journal ‘Gazette du Vieux Paris’ published for the 1900 Paris Exposition (RBM.19.a.11).

Dr Liam Sims shares more about its significance: https://t.co/58FtECnmJA

#CambridgeUniversityLibrary

[Russell Goulbourne @FrenchProfessor]

‘Not all spaces are empty’: a beautiful new poem by Amy Crutchfield, ‘De Chirico, after Bruce Bond’s “Oval”’, published today for #PoetryMonth by @RedRoomPoetry #30in30 https://t.co/fs8AIAFF1E

[Russell Goulbourne @FrenchProfessor]

Welcome news from the @AlboMP government https://t.co/Qqq5vmUOg3

[Universities Australia @uniaus]

The Albanese Government’s 2026 National Planning Level acknowledges the importance of international education to our economy and the delivery of high-quality teaching and research. @AlboMP @JasonClareMP

Read our full media release here: https://t.co/L5ELCwqDUL
#auspol #highered #internationaleducation

[Russell Goulbourne @FrenchProfessor]

@canontonyd @MarkHillKC @venchrisallsopp And he remains in post at Hillmorton, with responsibility for an interesting team: https://t.co/MjJsBo0bAb

[Russell Goulbourne @FrenchProfessor]

@PinkNews A beautiful insight from @samwilliamscomedy: “There’s inherent queerness to faith and lots of aspects of faith that are inherent to queerness, that conviction that comes with knowing that you have been fearfully and wonderfully made.”

[Banx @Banxcartoons]

From today's @ftopinion @FT #TomLehrer

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Re-reading your paragraph that made complete sense 24 hours ago