He should smile more

Greatly enjoyed doing this interview for Australian Academy of the Humanities on historian Alan Atkinson. Our today, appropriately, with unlikely reference to Taylor. humanities.org.au/power-of-the-h…

Coming out in paperback on 29th Oct, and now dedicated to our late friend and co-editor, Trevor Burnard.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526159557/

If I had no self control I’d just be sending these posts to Clare Corbould 📚 every day.

The podcast of this: soundcloud.com/experience_anu…

This x 1000000000

This event now has the keynote's abstract up: Catch Pacific art expert Peter Brunt on 'Turning British Art on its Head.' 17-18 Oct ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences - free but register! events.humanitix.com/british-art-pa….

The AHA (Australia) calculated that approx. 44% of the Labor caucus has a BA. None of them paid close to $50k for it - which is what they expect young people to pay today

Years ago I was on a search committee at Trinity College and we were puzzling over one letter of rec that seemed sort of lukewarm until my dear colleague Jerry Watts held it up and pointed at the signature line and said "She is British!"

We spend money on defence like we have a border with North Korea and a history of Russia invading us

'British art, Pacific subjects, Contemporary values' is a public lecture and workshop convened by Kate Fullagar (member of the ADB's Oceania Working Party). 🗓️ 17-18 October 2024 📍 Sir Roland Wilson Building ourANU Register now! 👇 tinyurl.com/fullagarworksh…

We want teenagers to have real experiences with real people

Penny Allman-Payne I'm still mystified Labour hasn't worked out how many of their own natural left/moderate Labour voters never vote for them in the Senate. And then they rant on about the Greens. Self Destructive beyond imagining.

Thank you Australian Academy of the Humanities for new report on JRG. ‘As the Minister for Education’s own example shows…the JRG hurts humanities students as much as 10 times more than the fee indexation proposed in this Bill helps them.’ humanities.org.au/uncategorised/…

Really pleased to be heading to Canberra in October to be part of the 2024 CBR Writers Festival ! Tickets for our event, 'Let's Queer Up A Few Things', are on sale here: tickets.canberrawritersfestival.com.au/Events/Let-s-Q…

Don't forget, the Call for Panels for our 2025 AAPS Conference is now open! The conference will be at Sydney University, 3-6 June, convened by the awesome Professor Jioji Ravulo. Get your panel proposal in by 28 Oct, on the theme "Pacific Discourses and Destinies"! pacificstudies.org.au/2024/08/aaps-c…

Do you know how to swim? Very excited that this podcast is launching today after lots of hard work from all the team at Impact Studios UTS - Ep1: It’s the start of another scorching hot summer and Angelica is looking for relief. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/sin…

Clare is paralysed on this, thinking it’s too costly to change. But it’ll only get more costly. He himself has an affordable BA, like 44% of his caucus. His party also clearly opposed it four years ago. #shame. (Also the replies to Ryan are 🤯)