More than a third of Australians are seeking food relief for the first time About one in three people are accessing food relief services for the first time, according to a new report from Food charity OzHarvest.

Please bring back subeditors before I lose my mind
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history is unfixed; reactivating the archive - even from absence, or destruction, or silence (so many archives are hollows/negative spaces/chiaroscuro to begin with) - is always possible: the animating force is the speaking/compositing eye of the historiographer, i.e. narrative (or apophenia).

Who's really behind 'Big Australia'? Taylor's high immigration stance raises eyebrows Angus Taylor's criticism of high immigration puts a strange spotlight on his own party's policy legacy.

It's a dog whistle solely for domestic political purposes. Howard did the same thing.
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Travellers in Europe may face major flight disruption over jet fuel crisis Europe could experience major flight disruptions within weeks as global energy officials warn the continent has "maybe six weeks of jet fuel left", which could lead to further price hikes and cancella...

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I hope they're keeping an eye on his burner phones ..

‘Exceptional circumstances’: why was Ben Roberts-Smith granted bail? A bail judge has ruled there are ‘exceptional circumstances’ in the Ben Roberts-Smith case and granted the accused war criminal bail.

Update on the Ben Roberts-Smith case: he was granted bail. In this Conversation piece, I discuss bail & the 'exceptional circumstances' of the granting of bail to BRS & Oliver Schulz, two former #Australian SAS soldiers charged with #warCrimes of murder. #ausLaw theconversation.com/exceptional-...

Fabulous!

This story is so Garry Disher-coded, get Hirsch onto it #crimefiction

Footnotes are where you do justice to people who need justice done to them.

Why do we even bother with endnotes--this is my personal pet peeve as a historian, I need to read the spicy, sassy, whiny footnotes immediately

Grant proposal reviews are always like "but I don't see how this is going to revolutionise the field" while article peer reviews are always like "stop saying that you're going to revolutionise the field".

Bob Mortimer holding a card to read on Would I Lie To You?

“I added all the necessary footnotes to the draft article as I wrote it and did not wait to insert them later”

Is Shaddap You Face Australia’s best ever novelty song, or a poor ethnic stereotype? Joe Dolce’s Shaddap You Face has been inducted into the National Film and Sound Archive’s Sounds of Australia. How can we best understand this song in 2026?

New article by @drjessc.bsky.social
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Given all the news, today is the day to remind everyone that you cannot assume postive outcomes from scholarship programs...

Victor Orban studied in the UK with an Open Society Foundation scholarship...

Viewing Archie Moore's Biennale-winning exhibition Kith & Kin immediately gave me an idea for my next book. Wonderful, inspiring!! Look at those archive piles!

Ooh 🧐

Both situations should be a reminder that our job as historians is never to decide what history is worth doing based on what we imagine might be "relevant" in some hazy future.

Ha, I've been told that about both migration and Nazis

Is international diplomacy more complex than the art of the deal? Probably unwise to get rid of all those humanities peeps

"Train wouldn't make it up the range mate" 🤔🧐

@drdrehistorian.bsky.social could u write an article on this nonsense

Missing the Sydney launch of Dan Goldberg's The Hunt for the Last Nazis, soon showing on SBS 🎉

Haha I should have been a subbie

Now my flight has been cancelled

In a bus. He's taking a detour in a km. There are sharp corners on the detour: go slow. We're all going to die.

Stuck in a traffic jam on the highway, trying to make flight to Sydney. Could we get a train from Brisbane to the LARGEST INLAND CITY IN AUSTRALIA PLEASE

They're getting worse

Blight lol

Don't think so mate #hardquiz