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drdrehistorian.bsky.social
Historians wanna talk like they got something to say | NZ and Australian history, politics, trains, music, sport, higher ed | he/him | Melburnian Kiwi in Perth
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Ooh, the pope has appointed a new Bishop of Urgell: press.vatican.va/content/sala... Which, because crazy history, means a new Head of State in Andorra: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-prin...

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The list of what degrees & areas of study will be scrapped is ridiculous! Degrees incl archaeology, music, ancient languages, electronics engineering, two IT fields. Sociology and ancient history decimated. No more majors in politics, gender studies, criminology, and psychological studies.

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The worst things that can happen to you as a New Zealander, ranked

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Missed in all the Dorinda Cox coverage, this critical shift in internal Greens power dynamics. Hyphens now have the upper hand.

submitted 13 hours ago • 10 comments

This is one of the best points I've seen so far on Cox's defection. The North West Shelf Project is contrary to Green values and insulting to Indigenous cultural heritage, but Labor has approved it to operate until 2070. It speaks volumes that she has seen fit to *join* this party mere days later

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Almost certainly the best photo I've ever taken of some ducks.

submitted 1 day ago • 131 comments

Understandable. Played the greatest ODI innings of all time. No more worlds for the great man to conquer. Now… let’s get him back in the Test side. 🏏

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

holy shit WHAT

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Speaking of nineties NZ politics, Jim Bolger turned 90 on Saturday, NZ's first ex-PM to reach that age. 5/42 PMs have lived to 85 but only Bolger beyond 87. He's the 17th longest-lived head of govt in Aus/NZ; above him, Barrie Unsworth is still alive (91, NSW) and Jack Lang the record (98y280d, NSW)

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Hold on I'm receiving a vision from across the ditch of just how well this revival is likely to go for the Alliance

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Growing up in Invercargill in the early / mid 90s it was impossible to miss the pain this visited upon our communities. Public sector retrenchment in regional centres. The decline of blue collar jobs. The cruelty with which the people who needed help were treated. A traumatic combination.

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Ruth Richardson is why I live in Australia. What her policies and worldview did to NZ's low-income and vulnerable communities, to single mothers like mine—well, my opinion on Richardson is not fit to print. That's not because I shy from profanity, but because words fail to convey my disdain properly

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Absolutely stoked to have won the @historycouncilsa.bsky.social Wakefield Press Essay Prize and I wish I could've been in Adelaide to receive it in person. This piece had a challenging evolution, and now it all feels very worthwhile! Pouring myself a big glass of a Barossa merlot to celebrate

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