Jobs!

Congrats not only to the winner and those shortlisted—these are all terrific books—but goodness the citation written about each book is beautifully done & a real service to the profession. Thank you, Frank Bongiorno & Grace Karskens!!

Open day! notredameaus in beautiful Walyalup/Fremantle

An absolute honour to learn that I have won the ACNZSN Domna Coates Book prize!

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.

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/…

Colleagues, historiography teaching! How do you approach it? Any feedback on my rough sketch below v welcome. It’s part lecture, seminar, case studies & group work for 3rd year undergrad. Haven’t quite found a place for Greg Dening yet 😳 & wanting it to be rich & inclusive

The Gweagal spears are on their way home. How extraordinary smh.com.au/world/europe/f…

'The first physical evidence that Tasmanian Devils once lived in the Pilbara is among the discoveries made by archaeologists investigating what is left of a rock shelter blasted by Rio Tinto in 2020'!! watoday.com.au/national/weste…

Read the report this morning and 🎉 🎊

Glen O'Hara Voices of Academia Great piece - all sounds very familiar

It’s so good to see public attention on this issue. Our universities spend more than $1b per year on publishing and subscription fees, to publish research funded by Australian taxpayers, to companies which make huge profits from free academic labour: theguardian.com/australia-news…

Wow there is ‘new federal regulations that require museums to obtain consent from tribes before displaying or performing research on cultural items’ nytimes.com/2024/01/26/art…

Early data from my research about academic blogging indicates that policymakers and policy advocates periodically cite research from blogs – which are, crucially, almost exclusively open access – in reports.

This appears to be consistent w/ what the Chief Scientist is saying ⤵️

Book reviews in 1981 🔥

I’ve been thinking about these 1980s WA beer adds all night & the memories shared by a legendary brewer. The masculinity of beer drinking before craft beers / Europeans beers arrived is quite something

If you're in Canberra on Wed 21 Feb at 4.15pm, don't miss this brilliant panel session ANUHistory on Shannyn Palmer's 'Unmaking Angas Downs', with Laura Rademaker Jess Urwin and Frank Bongiorno. Details below!

“A recent survey suggests that humanities subjects (broadly defined) account for 60% of the degrees held by tertiary-educated Australians, 52% of the tertiary teaching faculty, but only 16% of the research funding available.”⁦ Kate Fullagar⁩ on Arts in oz nacbs.org/post/british-s…