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AuSI connects researchers focused on Aust-based topics & brings an awareness of Australian perspectives to global conversations.
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[National Museum of Australia @nma]

Born in Broken Hill on 28 May 1895, Aussie actress Vera Pearce made her film debut in a 1914 film called 'The Shepherd of the Southern Cross'.

That film is referenced on the back of this 1915 postcard, which calls it, ‘the greatest of all Australian photo plays.'

[ANU Australian Studies Institute @ANUausi]

📰 'Why the tide may be turning against global political intolerance' #AUViews

Read the latest piece from AuSI Director Prof @markgkenny on shifting political currents worldwide.

👉 https://t.co/7vDovRLILA via @canberratimes

[ANU Australian Studies Institute @ANUausi]

Is social media now a more powerful force reshaping Australian democracy than any politician, party, or policy? Hear from author of 'Angertainment' @edcoper on the latest episode of #DemocracySausage 🌭🎙️ with @markgkenny & @MarijaTaflaga.

🎧👉 https://t.co/JxlilLNg6E

[ANUHistory @historyANU]

🚨Call to @ourANU students!
Applications are still open for the 2026 #MinoruHokariScholarship. Don't miss this opportunity to support your fieldwork research and/or Indigenous languages research!
Closes: 17 July (11:59 pm)
ℹ️ https://t.co/86I8EDQPKv

[National Museum of Australia @nma]

This #NAIDOCweek celebrates the milestone ‘50 Years of Deadly’ and today, we’re honouring Yorta Yorta elder William Cooper, an inspirational leader in the fight for recognition.

In 1936, he helped found the Australian Aborigines’ League.

Learn more: https://t.co/dfvN36yXfU

[ANU Australian Studies Institute @ANUausi]

"Under Peter Dutton, surrendering the cities was always a high-risk strategy. Under Taylor it is several orders of magnitude crazier because the rural-regional base has already slipped from the Coalition." #AUViews #auspol

📰👉 https://t.co/p40vknAebX
@markgkenny @canberratimes

[ANU Australian Studies Institute @ANUausi]

NEW #DemocracySausage 🌭🎙️!
@zalisteggall & @spenderallegra join @markgkenny & @MarijaTaflaga from @ParlHouseCBR to unpack the launch of Community Strong Australia — its logic, its irony, & whether teal voters will buy a party that insists it isn’t one.

🎧https://t.co/ywB1rliy51

[ANU Australian Studies Institute @ANUausi]

📢Special Lecture – Andrew Fisher: So Much More Than a Prime Minister

Join AuSI Foundation Fellow David Headon as he delivers a #FirstEightProject lecture at the Royal Australian Historical Society next week.

📌Thu 9 Jul, 1–2pm
🎟️In-person & online

👉https://t.co/Q6J7hFMXq7

[ANUHistory @historyANU]

A number of our colleagues are attending and presenting at the Australian Historical Association Conference #AHAConference2026. Thanks to Ben Silverstein, Ben Mercer, Emily Gallagher, Michelle Staff, Ruth Morgan, and Ruby Ekkel for representing us!
ℹ️ https://t.co/5FRmzf49mR

[ANU National Security College @NSC_ANU]

📢 How can #AUKUS help support peace in our region?

In this episode, Justin Burke speaks with Peter J. Dean and Jennifer Parker on public support for nuclear-powered submarines, our position in the region, and #Australia’s long-term maritime strategy.

Listen now ⤵️
https://t.co/6NWp43ufET

@DefenceProf @JAParker29 @justinburke

[National Museum of Australia @nma]

The Women’s Cricket World Cup is on now 🏏

But when the Australian Women's Cricket Team toured England for the Ashes in 1937, there was no World Cup - and the journey involved sightseeing and restaurant stops en route.

[The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand @ConversationEDU]

A new study shows that workplace priorities for Australian historians make it harder for their work to reach Australian readers – despite strong public interest. @MichelleArrow1 @YvesRees @fbongiornoanu @latrobe @Macquarie_Uni @UniCanberra https://t.co/CYg3D4qSi0

[Lilith Journal @LilithJournal]

The final article spotlight for Lilith: A feminist History Journal Number 31 is on ‘Hope and Grief: Mothering and Mental Illness’ by Miranda Francis (La Trobe University, Australia). https://t.co/SYv74fIoxV (1/2)

[National Museum of Australia @nma]

In 1928, Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew completed the first transpacific flight ✈️

Their epic journey through harsh conditions enthralled the public and thousands gathered to witness their arrival in Brisbane..

Learn more: https://t.co/ReRi3VnTbl

[ANU Australian Studies Institute @ANUausi]

📢 New #DemocracySausage episode is out now! 🌭🎙️

Political Scientist @pat__leslie joins @markgkenny & @MarijaTaflaga to make sense of the collapse of the Starmer government and the rise of Andy Burnham.

🎧👉 https://t.co/rsj8vUFwZj

[ANU Australian Studies Institute @ANUausi]

With One Nation rising in the polls, big questions loom. #ICYMI, @Jkoutsoukis joined @markgkenny & @MarijaTaflaga on last week's #DemocracySausage 🌭🎙️ to unpack the threats to Labor & the Liberals & what they need to do to arrest decline in the polls.

🎧 https://t.co/gyNm34T6FX

[ANU Australian Studies Institute @ANUausi]

"The brash anti-establishment mood sweeping Western democracies showed its first real fragility last week, just as its hubristic leader in this country overstepped the mark." #AUViews

Read more 📰👉 https://t.co/RIS3R5IalN by Prof @markgkenny via @canberratimes

[devpolicy.org @devpolicy]

AAC2026 call for papers now open! 📢 Submit an abstract, panel or launch by 21 August

Join us from 2-4 December for the 2026 Australasian AID Conference at ANU's Crawford School in Canberra.

Details: https://t.co/j8iIedS1PK

#AAC2026 @Asia_Foundation

[ANU Australian Studies Institute @ANUausi]

"If Hanson rates governmental accountability so lowly that even when she could use it to her advantage, she goes missing, imagine her contempt for being answerable herself were she PM." #AUViews #auspol

Read more 📰👉https://t.co/CbIJl9qFxD by Prof @markgkenny via @canberratimes

[Monash University Publishing @MonashPub]

80 per cent of Australians today are estimated to have been exposed to asbestos at some point in their lives. In ASBESTOS NATION, historian James Watson tells the complex story of asbestos in Australia over the past 150 years.

Available for pre-order now. https://t.co/3Y6bSDPNoO