GASt - Gesellschaft für Australienstudien

We are a politically independent, interdisciplinary organisation devoted to furthering research and scholarship concerned with Australia. (maintd by @drstaff13)

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CALL FOR ISSUES | The open-access Australian Studies Journal (ZfA|ASJ, ISSN 1864-3957) invites proposals for special issues focussing on specific themes or topics related to Australia. #AustralianStudies #CfP #Journal #Australia #Migration https://t.co/8C1kVABGym

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Call for Applications | 12 Funded PhD Positions with the International Research Training Group (IRTG) Cultures of Repair, 1 Feb 2027 – Deadline 12 July 2026 | more info: https://t.co/UzKuPckBTP #DoctoralResearch #CulturesOfRepair #CulturalStudies #PostcolonialStudies

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AAALS 2026 VIRTUAL SEMINARS | The American Association of #Australasian Literary Studies is hosting a series of academic #seminars in June 2026. Visit the website with seminar details and registration form. https://t.co/89vKwlF9NS

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›Sharing a Planet - Sustainability Transitions and Environmental Justice‹ | The 4th #Sustainability Forum of the Uni of Cologne | 16 June 2026 https://t.co/ZIfS2ctxCE

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»For the first time in Australian history, younger generations are forecast to have a lower standard of living than their parents. People across the country know about the cost-of-living crisis and the housing #affordability crisis.« https://t.co/bH2b4RgCML

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»A row over academic influence is brewing at one of Australia’s top universities as the #University of Melbourne holds secret talks over a partnership with a controversial philanthropic program.« https://t.co/CIdVDBaeeu

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»New research led by Flinders University argues thick tooth enamel helped #kangaroos chart an unconventional evolution story, compared to the animals of other continents.« https://t.co/UH9FiNOSr6

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»One in four #humanities students will take more than 25 years to fully repay their student loans because of Morrison government changes to university fees, newly public Treasury modelling reveals.« https://t.co/k2ac7lGGP4

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»After European colonisation, much of the Indigenous land management stopped. Since then, plant life in many parts of Australia has changed, exacerbating the risk and impact of wildfires.« #FirestickFarming #FirstNations https://t.co/HmbTZMB04h

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»A new paper from RMIT Uni and the RSA is urging #universities around the world to fundamentally reevaluate their purpose [as they] have a critical & largely untapped role to play in addressing the global environmental & social crises now facing humanity.« https://t.co/00yVR7aS4v

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»A key narrative of the white supremacist, anti-Indigenous racism in Australia is that the white man created Australia [...]. The 60,000-plus years of Aboriginal history is very inconvenient.« https://t.co/ZoPyE5qPiT

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»An international team of researchers’ analysis of minerals from the Pilbara region of Western Australia has given new insight into how ancient continents on Earth formed as far back as 3.5 billion years ago.« https://t.co/VMXXXt1Pod

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»The study found that while opposition candidates typically benefit from using negative sentiment to highlight problems and mobilise voter dissatisfaction, female candidates appear less able to deploy these tactics without public backlash.« https://t.co/pVGwNIytFv

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»Anglophone #universities have contributed to their own image problems by failing to perform at the level warranted by their privileged autonomy, according to a vice-chancellor with leadership history in three countries.« #HE https://t.co/TYil6UdwMJ

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»Many Japanese migrants born in the first half of the twentieth century were automatically British subjects, thus Australians, but were still treated as foreigners« https://t.co/UzEyMheaQl

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»We are using this ›window back in time‹ to understand where temperatures and sea levels may be heading on our current path of climate change. With only eight of the twelve Apostles remaining, we need to study and learn from them while we can« https://t.co/waSTSaFAx6

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»The re-emergence of First Nations burning in contemporary grassy woodlands project is implementing Indigenous-led cultural burning practices on private and public land and travelling stock reserves on Ngunnawal Country and Wiradjuri Country« https://t.co/FtAKXReDoL

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»One of the most influential South Australian suffragists was Catherine Helen Spence (1825–1901). She was vice-president of the Women’s #Suffrage League of South Australia, a journalist, advocate and public intellectual who toured the US and Canada.« https://t.co/BeZtewPzJ4

[GASt - Gesellschaft für Australienstudien @GASt_GAfAS]

CALL FOR ISSUES | The open-access Zeitschrift fuer Australienstudien | Australian Studies Journal (ZfA|ASJ, ISSN 1864-3957) invites proposals for special issues focussing on specific topics related to Australia. #AustralianStudies #CfP #Journal #Australia https://t.co/I9xlIoDG8S

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»Edith Cowan Uni recently unveiled two significant public artworks by Indigenous artists at its new ECU City Campus in Boorloo/Perth. [...] the works celebrate the cultural, spiritual and ecological narratives of the Noongar people of the southwest of WA« https://t.co/yS4MY586Wv

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»Punitive taxes on cigarettes and restricted access to lower-risk nicotine products have diverted Australians who use nicotine into illicit markets and may also have increased cigarette smoking among young people.« https://t.co/CJ3H8QNdcY