I concur. Sarah Ferguson interviewing Steve Bannon just about broke the ABC for me.

Hooray!! We have needed an orphan works provision in Australia for a long time.

It sounds like the amendment that was prepared during the final months of the LNP government, but which wasn't passed before the election. It had some important changes inspired by the difficulties of legally making materials available for teaching during lockdown. The detail will be in the Bill.

#Academicchatter #academicsky #goodnews #altmetrics

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Hey we get it. It's dark out there. But there's so much good stuff going on too.

Here's a timeline cleanse courtesy of the endless determination of the world's researchers.


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The recording will go up in due course. I'm also looking forward to watching the other presentations - it was late on this side of the world.

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Melanie Swalwell, Professor of Digital Media Heritage at Swinburne University in Melbourne, opens the conference with a talk on games preservation in Australia. I feel oddly patriotic for some reason seeing 1990s Aussie games in emulation & preservation. #vgpres26

Apparently the hashtag to use is #vgpres26

We are in Melbourne but there are also options for Sydney- and Adelaide-based artists. Fill out the (brief) application form and we'll be in touch.

*Some other obsolete formats also possible.

Calling artists with content on Floppies or CD-ROMs*!!

The Digital Heritage Lab is sharing access to our specialist disk imaging equipment. We will show you how to preserve your obsolete disks* (CD-ROMs, Floppies, Zips).

The #AusEAASI website has details: auseaasi.org/artist-outre...

@atosha.bsky.social

Videogame Preservation: Practices and Approaches, an Online Symposium

I'm delighted to be keynoting next Thursday at the Online Symposium "Videogame Preservation: Practices and Approaches" organised by the Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. I will present on "Play It Again" & the #AusEAASI network. @aarnet.edu.au
www.digitalscholarship.ox.ac.uk/event/videog...

For pioneering roles in online search engines, and in digital preservation and open access to knowledge provided by the Internet Archive If you want to solve hard problems, have hard problems. — Brewster Kahle

Congrats to @brewster.kahle.org for being named to the Computer History Museum 2026 Fellows!

"For pioneering roles in online search engines, and in digital preservation and open access to knowledge provided by the Internet Archive"

More info ➡️ computerhistory.org/2026-fellow-...

Apparently Phoenix FM 106.7 are providing emergency broadcasting for the ABC. That's according to a Vic Emergency alert.

Victorian government makes historic apology to Aboriginal people The Victorian government makes a historic apology to Aboriginal Victorians, in one of the first public acts to follow the signing of the state's treaty agreement.

Following on from the signing of Treaty last month, the Victorian state government today offered a formal apology to First Peoples, recognising past injustices. It's well worth watching. Allan has my respect.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Oil company Santos admits business plan is based on 4C temperature rise Chairman Peter Coates says company’s plan is ‘consistent with good value’, but experts call it ‘a breathtaking failure to come to grips with a world in transition’

Sorry, 4 degrees Celsius, as per the article. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

You mean 'committed to 3 degrees Celsius global warming' Santos? It always did my head in, esp living through SA heatwaves while working for a university with a former Santos head as Chancellor (Flinders). Still does.

Covert Action in Chile: The Significance of the Church Committee Report 50 Years Later Washington D.C. December 4, 2025 -  Fifty years ago today, Senator Frank Church convened the first public congressional hearing ever held on CIA covert operations to overthrow a foreign government, fo...

Covert Action in Chile: The Significance of the Church Committee Report 50 Years Later
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This is why I mask, because I don’t want Long Covid (or worse).

DPC Blog: Call for comments on a new guide to help you copy those floppies www.dpconline.org/blog/call-for-comments-o... thanks to #FutureNostalgia led by @makethecatwise #DigiPres

We are delighted to team up with @europeana.bsky.social supporting a webinar on November 26, 2025, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. CET, on the significance of #computergames as and for #culturalheritage.
The webinar is aimed at professionals in the #GLAMsector. Registration is free of charge.

Universities in 'battle of the century' with journal publisher Elsevier One New Zealand university told its staff all universities in New Zealand and Australia would "lose some degree of access" to the publisher's 1600 titles from the start of next year.

The irony here is that academics don’t just write the articles for free—we also referee and edit for them for free. Something is deeply broken.

“New Zealand's eight universities spent $30-million a year on journal licences and about half of that sum went to Elsevier.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Yes, the first Treaty in Australia (in the state of Victorian) was signed into law today. So many people who've worked for Treaty have not lived to see it, so those of us here need to celebrate...

Yothu Yindi - Treaty (Original Version) YouTube video by Yothu Yindi

youtu.be/Jf-jHCdafZY?...

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

This is a hugely significant step.

Artists tell AI to 'solve the problem' as copyright carve-out ruled out Labor has ruled out changing copyright laws to give tech giants free rein to train artificial intelligence models on creative works after the proposition was met with widespread backlash from artists.

Some good news from Australia - no text and data mining exceptions to copyright will be introduced for training AI.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

I am sensing something of a pattern here 🤔
Audited accounts show surpluses - not budget crises - at ANU and UoN. Who's next?

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New Australia Institute analysis shows the University of Newcastle had net assets over $1.8 billion at the end of 2024, contrary to claims that the university is in a finanical crisis.

#auspol

This is incredible news, and shows the incredible power of collective action. The fight against the neoliberal university (my own included) goes on, but its nice to hear some good news for a change.

Australian academic colleagues will want to fill this out: "The Australian University Census on Staff Wellbeing: An investigation of psychosocial safety climate in Australia's universities" doit.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

New Australia Institute analysis shows the ANU had a $90 million profit in 2024 and INCREASED the value of its net assets...

All while the ANU was claiming a budget crisis to justify staff cuts!

@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol