Australian universities have been abandoned by the government and are facing huge losses. You can read my piece on how financialisation helped cause this mess at @OverlandJournal.
Autonomy, including financial autonomy, is essential if our universities are to operate as critics and conscience of society. COVID-19 has bleakly exposed the inadequacy of their dominant corporatised, profit-driven governance model, writes @lyndang. https://t.co/vfuvGDSKtS
I'm going to be doing Chat with an Editor this Friday at
#MLA2025. Sign up for a session with me if you're interested in publishing with Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities (JOSAH) - the oldest journal in Australasia focused on the Asian region. @asah_sydney
Don't miss Chat with an Editor this Friday and Saturday at #MLA2025#MLA25. Sign up to meet with a journal editor either at the convention or virtually next Wednesday, 1/15, and find out how to get your article published! @MLAnews
https://t.co/JpniZbiKbV
Just as everyone is about to go on summer break, @tanya_plibersek has approved three huge coal mines
Giving future generations an unlivable planet for Christmas
My latest in @Meanjin - calling for literary prizes to go to more ambitious and difficult books
Huge thanks to @mxcreant for comissioning and helping whip this one into shape!
https://t.co/tyve14ZAvz
Mina Roces is delivering the A. R. Davis Lecture this Thursday, 21st November, 5pm AEST. Come join us!
On-line registration here: https://t.co/HXWmSqBS0l
In-person registration for the event at USyd here: https://t.co/euCaOt5rso
Chevron’s income selling Australian gas last year was $33 BILLION.
They got virtually all the gas for free (didn’t pay royalties), and paid $0 PRRT
Now they’re cutting jobs
https://t.co/B7JZWI8nxY
A reminder that entries are open now for ASAH's Emerging Scholar Award. Please spread word if you have students who might benefit from this. All entries receive feedback.
The #USElection2024 is a timely reminder that for all its faults, Australian democracy is a model for the world.
➡️ Independently administered elections
➡️ Voters can list their true preferences without throwing away their vote
➡️ Compulsory voting ensures all voices are heard.
Descendants of the Northern Territory Stolen Generations who won a $50.45 million class action settlement are angry to discover some will receive just a few thousand dollars each, or nothing at all. https://t.co/zO7dOCJGQB
Devastating, short-sighted and shamefully irresponsible announcement by @UOW management today of 135 proposed sackings, including whole teaching departments such as history. All the while the VC is a partner in a consultancy firm reviewing the university’s operations. @NTEUnion