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DEADLINE!!! Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal for #EAHMH25 in Berlin by March 10. It's going to be a fantastic conference with keynotes @historyelaine.bsky.social , Projit Mukharji and Birgit Nemec. More information and link to submission site at eahmh25.org #histmed #histSTM

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The AHA Executive Committee has issued a statement in response to the proposed definition of antisemitism put forward by Universities Australia. Read the full statement here:

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The ARC Board has proposed a major shake-up of the National Competitive Grants Program ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/engage-us/co... I've only skimmed so far, but they propose reducing 13 grant schemes to 6, with intent & scope in the table👇 Submissions are being accepted in response until 13 April. Get to it!

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This semester the UON course I teach (HIST1051: The Australian Experience) has over 700 students, which means so so so many emails, but this year to avoid exhaustion-by-typing I've started using the speech to text button on Outlook and it is INCREDIBLE. Recommend. 5 stars. 10/10.

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This morning after I put my lunchbox in our staff kitchen fridge and then closed the fridge door, I then (without thinking in any way) took out my car key, pointed it at the fridge and pressed ‘lock’, so yeah - I think I can say this week’s going well.

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I will be speaking about my chapter in this book at Deakin’s Centre for Contemporary History on 5 March at 11am AEDT. My paper: ‘Locating the ‘moral genealogy’ of war trauma in the Australian Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide’. Zoom details here: cch.deakin.edu.au/news/2025/02...

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Out on 28 March! There are chapters about communities, Indigenous people, veterans and PTSD, depathologisation of trans health and much more. We are having a little online launch on the evening of 31 March so if you’re interested please DM me for details.

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Some hope: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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The AHA strongly opposes Minister Jason Clare's call for the ARC to investigate Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's grant. Such political interference, which the Minister promised to end, undermines the integrity of the ARC and its independent, peer-review processes.

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Proofs for the book I have co-edited with Natalie Ann Hendry, 'Critical Mental Health in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: Social and Historical Perspectives' are here! It will be published on 28 March by Palgrave. link.springer.com/book/9783031...

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I guess I can thank the Luigi Mangione cultural moment for Britney Spears’ ‘Criminal’ making its way onto my Apple Music ‘heavy rotation’ mix. What innocent times those were.

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My introduction to a forum on university 'truth telling' in @historyaustralia.bsky.social, now online, open access. Worth reading the multiple contributions. Especially as US and other universities cowardly withdraw from any truth telling... #history #histstm #sts @humanitiesau.bsky.social

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I do understand why the ALP lost the 1966 Fed Election (when Calwell called for 'demonstrations from one end of the country to the other' against conscription) but this ad helped to clarify it. Why did the ALP show an image of Mao to communist-fearing Australia? It also needed a lot more pizzazz.

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The 1953 records of a Victorian mental health organisation reports that when its President was farewelled before her trip to England she was given a basket of fruit and a pair of stockings as a gift. I find this so interesting. Can someone write a book on historical gift-giving?

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Doctor Kerry Georges is back for another semester of ranting to approx 700 amazing UON students about one of her favourite subjects, Australian history. 😂

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This morning, right after I saw on the gym tv that Tr*mp will ban trans people from the military, I noticed a person next to me wearing Adidas socks w LGBTQIA+ colours & realised that in 2025 it's harder for an elderly bigot to erase the incredible contributions trans people have made to our society

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New development on the Botanic Gardens corpse flower livestream is that the camera facing ‘Putricia’ (as she’s been named by fans) gets almost as much attention as Putricia herself, people waving and smiling to those watching from home. It’s so cute. (By the way, she’s started to open)

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Thinking about the incredibly courageous Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde while I sit down to write about Archbishop John Stoward Moyes who led a group of Anglican bishops in engaging in a very public exchange of letters w Liberal PM Robert Menzies in 1965 about ending the Vietnam War. Absolute heroes.

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Horrendous www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

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Friends who need to access historical newspapers for whatever reason, in case you didn't know, the State Library of NSW now has digitised versions of The Age and Sydney Morning Herald from the 19th century onwards here: www.proquest.com/hnpaustralia...

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I’ve had the Botanic Gardens corpse flower livestream on in the background all day & while I’m not posting, I am sort of obsessed with the little community that has been established in the YouTube comments. Some travel into the Gardens & wave on camera to the others www.youtube.com/live/mrylcCA...

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If anyone’s wondering what I’m doing this weekend, I’m spending it watching the livestream of the corpse flower at Sydney Botanic Gardens which is set to bloom tomorrow, Sunday or Monday. Thanks to @ncushing12.bsky.social for telling me about it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=mryl...

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I'd like to figure out why not just one, but two Austn transport giants were anti-Vietnam War activists. One was Gordon Barton of the Liberal Reform Group (who started IPEC, now Toll) and the other was Ken Thomas, who started K.W. Thomas, later Thomas Nationwide Transport (TNT). Is is a coincidence?

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To mark the death of the great David Lynch, I'm going to rewatch Twin Peaks. Please excuse me if my eyes resemble saucers for the next few months.

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So many great Lynch stories being shared - one of my personal favourites is Laura Dern and Justin Theroux nominating him for the Ice Bucket Challenge, him doing it with iced coffee while playing 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' on trumpet, then nominating Vladimir Putin

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Simon Townsend: children’s TV host was fearless anti-Vietnam war activist jailed twice for pacifist beliefs | Effie Karageorgos for the Conversation

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