A rare piece of good news from #Egypt: Alaa Abd El Fattah has been pardoned by Al Sisi. The most lucid, sharp, and consistent activist of the past 20 years — his prison writings are proof. His release is thanks to his mother’s hunger strike outside Downing tinyurl.com/5fy9ukzn

What epic news! Congrats to you and all who I fought so tenaciously to free my friend and former prison cellmate. Alaa Abd El Fattah. He is an extraordinary human who should have been celebrated, never imprisoned.

My dear friend Alaa Abd El Fattah Abd el Fattah is free!! Such love and joy! With thanks to all who believed in and backed the cause.

This Senate inquiry exposed a culture where secrecy was the norm, overpaid university executives treated public institutions like their own backyard, and consequences were rare for misadventure. ANU is a textbook case: tone-deaf restructures, staff unrest, and a vice-chancellor

The 80th anniversary of the UN is a suitable time to reaffirm its co-operative objectives and the role it plays in creating and sustaining a multilateral global order. #auspol #UN johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09/r…

Emily Gallagher's "Playtime" is Non-fiction Pick of the Week: "superbly realised, often haunting ... Gallagher has a genuine lyrical flair ... a thoroughly engaging piece of imaginative historical writing, always thoughtful and quite often moving." smh.com.au/culture/books/…

“The situation should never have been allowed to get so bad at the ANU.” - NTEU ACT Division Secretary Dr Lachlan Clohesy Union members have been standing up for work health and safety at ourANU. ✊ region.com.au/federal-work-h…

Happy as Larry to get a pat in at the end of a long day of meetings.

Thank you Jane, from all the animals x

#BREAKING - Macquarie University has become the second NSW university in as many months to be put on notice by the state’s workplace health and safety regulator over its approach to sweeping job cuts. ➡️ bit.ly/3IT4acv

Macquarie University has been hit with a warning from SafeWork NSW over its plans to cut more than 60 staff after years of operating in the red skynews.com.au/australia-news…

📰BREAKING📰 SafeWork NSW has stepped in to force Macquarie University to make work health and safety improvements to their consultation on proposed workplace changes. These failures reveal a wider governance problem made visible thanks to NTEU New South Wales members at MQ from the

And what a disastrous year for the ANU it has been.

#Breaking | ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences will not face structural changes at this time. No renaming, merging, or disestablishment of areas. Change management appears to have been halted, even walked back completely. It’s unclear the impacts of this announcement on music.

John Frew's is the best overview of a - maybe the - key driver of the slashing of humanities disciplines/academics/courses: a consultant groupthink that works via interlocking memberships and dependencies of university executives and councils, and the firms they hire for advice.

Are you a university staff member? Take 5-6 mins and help independent researchers shine a light on the state of staff wellbeing in our unis: nteu.info/census

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A stairway to heaven. This is the banned book staircase created by Newport Public Library, Oregon. A timely reminder how books lift you up & the fact that it’s only control freaks, killjoys & prudes who want to police what you do between the covers. #bookban

"Macquarie University Cuts Funding From 2SER After 45 Years" cityhub.com.au/macquarie-univ… this doesn't bode well. hope they can find alternative funding

'Mervyn Bishop: Close Up' celebrates one one of Australia's most important photographers. This new exhibition offers a rare glimpse of the man behind the lens and honours the enduring legacy of Australia’s first Aboriginal press photographer. sl.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/me…