What's going on at ANU right now is quite extraordinary. ANU made a $135m surplus last year and has billions of dollars of assets and reserves. Suddenly VC Genevieve Bell is declaring she needs to save $250m this year

BREAKING 👀ON the 1-yr anniversary of 🇦🇺 failed Voice to parliament referendum we harness 3.3 million news stories and social media posts using a computer learning to trace the major YES & NO narratives. READ IT HERE Great work by Justin Phillips Simon Jackman url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/_LPhCMwv0QUZ…

Join us Oxford Anthropology + All Souls w cutting edge scholar to celebrate ethnography at new frontiers - hackers Gabriella "Biella" Coleman to far right groups Agnieszka Pasieka, and financial elites Dr. Dan Souleles, prisons w C Ramble to multispecies Radhika Govindrajan. Delighted to convene w Mathijs Pelkmans

Right, it's time to talk about how Australia's Minister for International Development and the Pacific is also the Minister for Defence Industry...yeah.

How shameful! Human Rights Watch has called out the Anthony Albanese gov for failing to support UN chief António Guterres in the face of Israeli attacks. 104 states signed a letter supporting him - but not U.S. Mission to the UN UK at the UN 🇬🇧🇺🇳 Germany in the United Nations or Ambassador James Larsen 🇦🇺🇺🇳! Why not Senator Penny Wong?? hrw.org/news/2024/10/1…

Launch of SI on Social Reproduction of Agrarian Change in J of Agrarian Change just before Historical Materialism Journal conference kicks off. With Sara Stevano & me as editors (with Lyn Ossome & Dr Hannah Bargawi), & Lorena Lombardozzi 🍉 https://bsky.app/profile/lor Cosku Celik Stha Yeni, China Sajadian as authors. All authors in🧵

On the relationship between crises and the academic discipline of international relations. New commentary by Dr Maria Tanyag from ANUBellSchool in Australian Journal of International Affairs.. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

What is AUKUS and how is it changing Australia? Designed in an accessible way, and encouraging a diversity of perspectives, we hope to examine both the strategic merits and potential drawbacks of AUKUS. S tinyurl.com/48t92c5p #AUKUS #pacifc #peace #militarisation

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Is AUKUS changing Australia? All are welcome to register for seminar by Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social on Authoritarian Statism and Militarised Neoliberalism. Monash GPS #AUKUS Monash Politics & IR shorturl.at/8j98a

How military aesthetics places war beyond contestation and creates affective attachments that sustain settler colonialism. New essay by @Federica_Caso in Security Dialogue. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

My latest deep dive. It looks to me as if the resolve is to supply Israel with materiel irrespective of what it does contrary to common humanity, let alone international law. Apart from the law, what Israel is doing is atrocious by any moral standard. declassifiedaus.org/2024/11/05/aus…

I just woke up to the news that Trump is again the president of the United States. I want to say I am surprised, but I am not. I have been conducting fieldwork in Hawaii since June 2023 for our project on immigrant conservatives. I spent 1.5 months with Filipinos and many other

For all you critical Australian Jews, this new survey, made by trusted colleagues, is worth your time: griffithuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8j…

The Australian government has announced a massive trade deal with the UAE, directly linking Australian farmers(❤️) to a State violating a UN arms embargo and fuelling conflict in Sudan. theconversation.com/sudan-is-burni… #Sudan #Governance #armsembargo

"We're seeing more families forced to make choices between putting food on the table, keeping the lights on or paying the mortgage." ab.co/3P2T1Fq

NEW from Drop Site: The BBC's Civil War Over Gaza A landmark investigation by Owen Jones into BBC’s Gaza coverage. Interviews with 13 journalists and staffers reveal how senior figures skewed stories for Israel and dismissed internal objections dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-wa…

Israel has banned the following items from entering Gaza: •Anesthetics •Anesthesia machines •Oxygen cylinders •Ventilators •Water filtration systems •Dates •Sleeping bags •Medicines to treat cancer •Water purification tablets •Maternity kits

Parliaments passed laws to criminalise protest and impose mandatory sentencing based on offences the AFP identified as being a con job. The laws need to be fully reconsidered and repealed. My questions to AFP below.

I’ve taught college for 30 years so I am confident saying that the students being abducted by ICE from our campuses are our best. They are the ones we stay up late for, writing elaborate comments on their brilliant work, hoping they will feel our respect and gratitude