New special issue of journal #LanguagePolicy - 'Critical Ethnography of Language Policy in the Global South: Insights from Research in Timor-Leste' - with this on developing local language for teaching in #multilingual #highereducation rdcu.be/cdkJp Springer Nature

Guess which group was told by the PM they were lucky to not get shot?

Haven't felt an #earthquake that strong or last that long since I lived in Japan. Whole house shook for 20-30 seconds. Add Sth Gippsland to the list of places around Vic that felt it.

5.3 apparently, with the epicenter just north of us. No wonder it felt like the cement pilons holding up the house weren't gonna make it...

New for our Teaching in Higher Education (TiHE) special issue on the #MultilingualUniversity Article on ‘Conceptualising multilingualism in higher education in Timor-Leste: the case of petroleum studies’ By Trent Newman Available at: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

#OnThisDay 1996: Discworld author Terry Pratchett explained where his love of reading and writing began.

Lots to recommend about this critical discussion of multilingualism in Timor-Leste higher ed. Focus on petroleum studies lecturers reconciling ideological forces, and inherited 'the' colonial language problems, Portuguese and Indonesian, and English. tandfonline.com/eprint/KKACNCN…

So good to finally have a foreign minister to be proud of! And one that understands the immense value of #multilingualpractices to the conduct of diplomatic communication. Bravo Senator Penny Wong instagram.com/reel/CefV070pN…

What took you, NSW?

Kodama live here. #shinto #mononokehime #princessmononoke #fungi @ The Gully instagram.com/p/CelaFt9BCmd/…

How to write: Stop not writing. Sit at desk. Keep butt in chair for a while. Write any old paragraph. Fret. Write 1 more shitty paragraph. Get up, start some laundry. Back to desk, 1 more shitty paragraph. Fret. Check laundry. Sit back down, bitterly. Wait! You’ve written a page!

When the penalty for aborting after rape is more severe than the penalty for rape, that's when you know it's a war on women

📢 Exciting News! The latest issue of @IJONMES, the International Journal of Modern Education Studies, is out now! 🎉 Check out the fascinating manuscripts published in this issue: #️⃣1️⃣Opinion of primary school teachers about the Culturally responsive education practices used in