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Insightful analysis of the challenges and limitations of using migration as a ‘fix’ for Australia’s looming aged care crisis by Sophia Kagan lowyinstitute.org/the-interprete…

Unlike Australian workers, guest workers from Pacific nations are denied the right to switch employers. Thousands who have fled bad employers live in Australia informally without support. @OurANU theconversation.com/promoted-as-a-…

The Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme is helping some workers but harming others – it needs to be reformed | Matt Withers ift.tt/XMdgzQ5

NEW: Me, Rafael Azeredo & Ben Iaquinto trace the evolution of the Working Holiday Maker backpacker visa that has become an essential labour cohort for rural AU. Out now in Rural Studies — sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Pacific Labourers overtaxed and exploited in Australia - The Australia Institute australiainstitute.org.au/post/pacific-l…

Economists like competitive markets, so why not for PALM? There are no intrinsic reasons why workers couldn't have the right to change employers - only a lack of policy imagination and insufficient political will to support basic human and labour rights.

New research out today by Australia Institute: the top VC salaries, the CEOs of public universities, have more than quadrupled over the past 40 years. Can’t say the same for the wages of staff. NTEU calls for urgent action to curb corporate governance in #highered #AusPol2025

New Cambridge Element Emigration States by Matt Withers is now free to read for 4 weeks! cup.org/4hbGjka #cambridgeelements #sociology

⁦Jason Clare MP⁩ and ⁦Australian Research Council⁩ are 'probing' the competitively won, peer reviewed grant of an excellent scholar. All academics and academic associations need to stand up and oppose such interference Anti-Israel scholar’s $870k grant p archive.md/2025.01.31-093…

Our Pluralising Social Reproduction Approaches piece is out in International Feminist Journal of Politics !Great to work at this with Shirin Rai & Sara Stevano, & alongside so many other fellow feminists,including Xfriends Serena Natile (Dr) Surbhi Kesar Dzodzi Tsikata et al (check list)! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Happy to have an article published in the Journal of Contemporary Asia. It was written before KADIN’s September split. Initially, I thought the split might invalidate my argument, but after January’s jubilant reunification, I think the argument stands. tandfonline.com/eprint/BG27FJX…

Professor Michael Burawoy was such a decent, decent man. I am so sad to hear of his death. He was the best of us. Here he is speaking with such moral clarity on the question of academic freedom of speech on Palestine. I sincerely hope TASA will one day take such a principled

Academics everywhere: Please consider signing this letter in support of my colleague Palestinian-Australian academic Dr Randa Abdel Fattah. The attacks on her are also attacks on our fundamental rights to academic freedom docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Ussama Makdisi Noura Erakat

Thank you to Overland Journal for publishing this incredible statement of solidarity in defence of academic freedom. Humbled and so grateful for the support. I stand in unequivocal solidarity with Professor Chelsea Watego, Senator Lidia Thorpe Tasnim Mahmoud Sammak 🇵🇸 , Sarah Schwartz ,

Join us 13 March in Canberra for the launch of TEMPORARY: we wanted workers but we got people — an exhibition of images and stories of temporary migration from the Pacific to Australia. By Matt Withers, Kirstie Petrou, Jeanette Tanghwa, Ema Moolchand & me eventbrite.com.au/e/temporary-we…

Voting for the ourANU Council election is now open! Vote at apollo.anu.edu.au/apollo/default… It's more important than ever to have people willing to hold University Executive to account. Vote for Dr Francis Markham! Francis is the NTEU endorsed candidate. ✊

Postdoc opportunity. Please distribute widely. We’re looking for an emerging scholar doing community-centred or community-led research in Pacific History. Minimal teaching duties, research, relocation funds and visa sponsorship available. usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_EXT…

Dear Teachers, Principals, and School Leaders, I am offering a FREE 1-hour Zoom session to any school in Australia, providing an introductory lesson on Palestine. I cover its history (including pre 1948), and our ongoing struggle for liberation and justice. My class is designed

Our book is out and available for purchase in the U.K. Writing this book with Carolina Alves Surbhi Kesar & Ingrid H. Kvangraven was a long and arduous process that has arguably changed us all, and we’d be honoured for y’all to read it. Get it now from Polity and in bookstores!

Staff at ourANU say enough is enough. NTEU contends there is no financial justification for further job cuts. canberratimes.com.au/story/8980985/…