We are so pleased that our colleagues Dr Karen Fox and Associate Professor Amanda Laugesen have been awarded an ARC Discovery Project to investigate the role of women in shaping the history of colloquial language in Australia. Congratulations!! 🎉🎉 rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Dow…

📚💻 📚 Online now! Watch the BSANZ webinar "Collecting & Curating," a fascinating conversation led by Simon Farley with @MaggiePatts, Dawn Albinger, and Chris Browne sharing their insights & experience. Thanks Marie Larsen for organising. tinyurl.com/4m4afu93 SHARP News

We have lost one of the true giants of the screen. Gene Hackman could play anyone, and you could feel a whole life behind it. He could be everyone and no one, a towering presence or an everyday Joe. That’s how powerful an actor he was. He will be missed, but his work will live on

"‘Laid to Rest in Australian Soil: The Legacies of  Repatriation Policy Change during the Vietnam" co-written with Kate Ariotti is online. It discusses what happened to those killed in the Battle of Long Tan when their bodies came home. Open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Wondering what to do lunchtime 14 May in Canberra? Come to Aust War Memorial to hear me speak about the post-liberation experiences of the Australian airmen of Stalag Luft III. Details and booking here awm.gov.au/whatson/author… See you soon!

Historian Dr Kristen Alexander is visiting to discuss her book 'Kriegies: The Australian Airmen of Stalag Luft III', sharing the experiences of the 345 Australian airmen incarcerated at the POW Camp. When: Wednesday, 14 May 2025 @ 12.30pm More info: trybooking.com/events/landing…

What would Nugget say? ‘The cuts will undermine the ability of ANU to deliver on its mission’ canberratimes.com.au/story/9010812/…

Strong statement of concern from Australian Academy of the Humanities over ourANU cuts, warning "the cuts pose a serious threat to Australia’s national intellectual and cultural capabilities." NTEU agrees. Time to stop the cuts. humanities.org.au/news/alarm-ove…

From bluey to bogans: Researchers who help define how the nation speaks to lose their jobs at ANU: sad news indeed. smh.com.au/national/from-…

I can't believe ANU is proposing to disestablish the Australian National Dictonary Centre. Over the last 20 years of writing I've often consulted staff over the origins of obscure words and phrases. We need the dictionary to record and explain our changing language.

The ANU proposes to abandon the study of Australian English - but cybernetics is on the up and up! Truly, the worst University leadership in my lifetime. From bluey to bogans: Researchers who help define how the nation speaks to lose their jobs smh.com.au/national/from-…

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Australian National University (ANU) is closing the Australian National Dictionary Centre* & its Humanities Research Centre as part of its major budget cuts. Australia's "cultural cringe" lives on. [*traces Australian language: what's a "larrikin"?] smh.com.au/national/from-…

This piece is on the proposed closure of the Australian National Dictionary Centre at ourANU. NTEU will be holding a rally tomorrow at 12pm in Kambri against this sort of destruction, and the damage of Renew ANU more broadly. smh.com.au/national/from-…

This rally, and the CASS People's Town Hall, were excellent today. Both showed the best of ourANU.

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Anyone who cares about the history of language / thinks language is an important part of a nation's culture, will be appalled at this. I don't know how irrevocable the decision is; if you know of anyone who could join the call to keep the centre open, please let them know. …/

Job going at VU in Melbourne! Senior Lecturer in Arts & Humanities within the Bachelor of Arts program, focusing upon Gender Studies, Political Science, and Sociology, while also considering other disciplines. seek.com.au/job/85535627?r…