Paul Kiem

Educator and researcher, history and life writing

[Paul Kiem @PaulKiem]

Excited to start 2026 with the publication, with Klaus Rippert, of a remarkable transnational story: 'Jakob and Charlotte Rippert: Nubia to Nuriootpa'. Pilgrims, exiles and witnesses to a century of upheaval ... On sale in February. More details at: https://t.co/UzroJsh9LC

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

Genuine respect to the Liberal Party.

After Abbott and Morrison, finding a worse leader should have been physically impossible.

And yet, through sheer force of will, they've pulled it off.

[Paul Kiem @PaulKiem]

"The Weimar Republic has long been an overlooked topic, a historical blip between the much more interesting German Empire and the Third Reich." Except in NSW where, until recently, it dominated the popular secondary Modern History course. Looking forward to my pre-order arriving.

[Katja Hoyer @hoyer_kat]

"Hoyer is one of the most brilliant historians of her generation. Her latest work proves as much."
What a lovely review of WEIMAR by @SeanDurns 😊👇
https://t.co/ekgtBStubK

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

Sad to hear. A sublime writer, and a genuinely nice, humble man. I asked him once who was Australia’s greatest writer. ‘ Shakespeare,’ he replied. https://t.co/uQZbMf3ITb

[Harry Torso @harrytorso]

@Daractenus

[Paul Kiem @PaulKiem]

Vale Jon Kudelka insightful, funny and generous.

[Frank Bongiorno @fbongiornoanu]

Looking forward to delivering the Canberra Day Oration at the National Library of Australia, at 6pm on 12 March. The topic is: 'Does history have a future in Canberra?' Free event, but registrations at:

https://t.co/IcE6rrdXEY

[Paul Kiem @PaulKiem]

Enjoyed exploring some whimsical history and archaeology with @cairojim Our article, 'The Centurion and the Sapper', has just been published, open access, in the Journal of Australian Studies @aus_journal
https://t.co/DGsGoMIs57

[Andy Masley @AndyMasley]

I got into teaching partly bc of an interest in ed policy, and stuff like this is why I left the field. There are these gigantic problems that actually have very simple fixes that a lot of people can see, but there's no sense anywhere that anything can be done. The attitudes common in the field are just so strange and helpless and anti-agency. The people who rise to prominence are often lazy and just coast on slogans.

[Katja Hoyer @hoyer_kat]

After WWII, Austria declared itself the 'first victim' of Nazism. This guilt-free narrative allowed it, unlike Germany, to regain unity and sovereignty quickly. It only changed after the Cold War.
ZEITGEIST on Austria's long reckoning with its Nazi past 👇
https://t.co/YXnuBpbwYE

[Paul Kiem @PaulKiem]

@2ndNewMoon @hoyer_kat Our just published book, 'Jakob and Charlotte Rippert: Nubia to Nuriootpa' tells the story of a Palestine German couple who were interned in Australia in the 1940s. They were part of an overlooked non-Templer group who had a farm north of Acre/Akko: https://t.co/UzroJsgBW4

[Paul Kiem @PaulKiem]

@2ndNewMoon @hoyer_kat A small number of Palestine Germans were Jewish and a much larger number from the Dunera but I don’t know of separate repatriation figures. What date is the Orontes story?

[Paul Kiem @PaulKiem]

'Overlooked German Catholics of the Hunter Valley' - my recent article looking at the transience of deutschtum in the diaspora of 19th C German migrants to NSW's Hunter Valley, in the 2025 JACHS: https://t.co/HwVvimzc67...

[Darren Leslie @dnleslie]

Sweden is a cautionary tale for Scottish education.

After years of pushing digital-first learning and replacing textbooks with screens, the government is now spending millions to bring real books back into classrooms.

Not because technology is evil, but because overuse of screens weakened reading, focus and deep learning.

Foundational skills need paper, books and explicit teaching. Digital tools should support learning, not replace it.

[Frank Bongiorno @fbongiornoanu]

@ajamesbragg What has never happened before is an Opposition publicly blaming a Prime Minister for a terrorist act. Have you no sense of shame?

[Paul Kiem @PaulKiem]

@hoyer_kat I will keep any eye out for the book. Have you got any recommendations for a two day visit to Weimar (en route to Dessau)?

[Alexandra Wilson @amwilson_opera]

I am now asking myself whether my "unavoidable" redundancy was not just about money but about something more ideological, looking at the direction the department has taken. No place for opera any more, but "p*rn studies".

[Paul Kiem @PaulKiem]

@fbongiornoanu Congratulations Frank, look forward to seeing the history and ideas discussed

[Sean Walsh @seanyboi25]

@Churgersasx @matt_barrie @UNSW @NicholasHeffer9 it’s over for the University industrial complex shut it all down