Hello Wollongong friends I'm going to be on ABC Illawarra tomorrow morning between 10 and 11, talking about Bridgerton!

Excited to be awarded an ARC Industry Fellowship to develop new evidence-based strategies to make local kids TV more discoverable in the streaming era! I'll work with ACTF & ACMI over the next few years on a suite of industry/public outcomes. RMIT University ADM+S Centre #IE24

BOTD: bushranger Ben Hall.

The son of two ex-convicts, after his house was burnt down by a police inspector in 1863 Hall became the leader of a gang of bushrangers that instigated many holdups and raids.

Betrayed by an informer, he was killed by police just 2 years later.

In 1993, Paul Keating had his 'sweetest victory of all'. Here's a reminder of the anti-GST campaign Labor ran that year... Furs, champagne and Ferraris

If you're looking to do a Fellowship or a scholarship somewhere, I highly recommend working with the State Library of NSW teams and collections.

#twitterstorians #Fellowship #scholarship

A new **open access** article by John Mikler and Imogen Ryan explains the power of Australia's mining and energy industries. Is it structural power, discursive power, instrumental power or all of the above?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Our newsletter is out! Dr Ayesha Jehangir on Australia's falls in the World Press Freedom ranking, Monica on the risk to Israel’s democratic legitimacy with the suspension of Al Jazeera's operations and oh so much more!🔻
uts.edu.au/research/centr…

A photo for Mother's Day on Sunday of the most famous political mother in Australia. Enid Lyons was the mother of 11 children when she moved into the Lodge with her husband, PM Joe Lyons, in 1932. In 1943, she became the first female member of the House of Representatives

I have a cover.

My new book (a concise history of the university) will be published before the summer.

One of the sorrows of historian Lyndall Ryan's death is that she will never compete the biography of her mother Edna Ryan. Lyndall visited the ANU History Department in 2003 to work on her biography, but Windschuttle's attack on her Tasmanian work sideswiped her. A great loss.

Sir Frank Packer (1906-74) who died #OTD was brilliantly portrayed by Lachy Hulme in 'Power Games' mini-series (2013) #mediahistory

Our new Centre for Media Transition podcast is up!! Sign up here podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/dou… Do you think we should let people comment on news sites as they please?

I'm talking about the lives of Katharine Susannah Prichard and her son, Ric Throssell, at 1pm, Saturday 4 May at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre in Greenmount. Here's a photo of my props!

'Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives' 50% off in Springer Nature
flash sale. #mediahistory #ozhistory
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Sir Frank Packer (1906-74), who died #OTD , in Australian Media Hall of Fame. Sketch by Louise Kahan now held by National Portrait Gallery
halloffame.melbournepressclub.com/article/frank-… Melbourne Press Club #mediahistory

Vale. An immense loss to the Australian historical profession. A marvelous obituary for Lyndall Ryan from her friend and colleague, Ann Curthoys. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Sir Frank Packer, founder of Australian Consolidated Press/PBL & Nine.com.au, & publisher of Women's Weekly & The Daily Telegraph, died #OTD in 1974. Read about him in National Centre of Biography & see his portrait by Judy Cassab in National Portrait Gallery #mediahistory
adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pack…

The Australian Academy of the Humanities acknowledges, with deep sadness, the death of Emeritus Professor Lyndall Ryan AM FAHA.

Lyndall was a pioneering and highly influential Australian historian, whose work recast and reconceptualised the historical experiences of Aboriginal

A lovely tribute to our much loved colleague Lyndall Ryan. Vale to a great woman whose impact will live on.

This May Day we've been digging around in the ADB archives to learn about those who dedicated their lives to fighting for workers' rights in Australia.

One of these figures was Edna Ryan (née Nelson, 1904-1997).

📷 Edna Ryan, 1991, ourANU Archives