I love graduations, and it was a particular honour to be mace bearer at the recent @CQU one in Townsville where over 150 students crossed the stage including two PhDs. Congratulations to our wonderful graduates 🎓 🎊🥳
The Liberals cannot be both a serious alternative government and populist headline-grabbers. They cannot compete with Labor on serious policy issues and be absorbed with culture wars.
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Bill Leak in the Oz in 1999. Seems fitting for the new book from @amyremeikis.bsky.social
New advance access book review published by @jich.bsky.social
@drbenjaminjones.bsky.social reviews Henry Reynolds' "Looking from the North: Australian History from the Top Down"
@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social
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It was great to chat with Chris Spyrou on The Briefing podcast about Australia Day and what patriotism really means. I always appreciate longer discussions especially on topics that so often get reduced to meaningless soundbites. Chat starts at 12:12. play.listnr.com/podcast/the-...
If anyone here has ever used my research (book, chapters, articles) in their teaching could you send me the details of where and how so I can document 'research impact' better for my institution. Could be on neoliberalism, unions, heat and climate change, anything. Many thanks!
Some thoughts from me on fascism and Australian history. Including multiple perspectives in the national story is not woke, it is what democracy looks like.
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I don't follow Elon on X but on the odd occasion I still log in, I always see the latest thing he has posted. To be honest, I find it sad as much as anything.
This was a pleasure to edit. The papers come from the wonderful histories of northern and regional Australia stream at the AHA conference this year. Thanks to all the talented contributors.
In Elections Matter, Richard Reid argues convincingly that 1969 was one of the most significant elections. If Gough got in 3 years earlier, it all would have looked very different.
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I wonder how many fantastic scholarly books MUP knocked back to make room for this.
Uber driver picking me up from campus: so what do you study?
Me, choking back tears: thank you 🙏
It was a pleasure to deliver the keynote for the Australian Independent Schools History Symposium. My talk was titled, is real history possible in an era of fake news. You can read it here.
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Publication day! New issue of the Australian Studies Journal is open access. It was a pleasure to guest edit this special issue on histories of northern Australia. The articles come from papers presented at the 2025 AHA co-hosted by CQUniversity and JCU.
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My new website is live! It's a work in progress, with lots I still want to do, but after many years my last site became completely non-functional so this is the first step: mikejonesonline.com #archives #history #historian #consultant #GLAM #academia #website
Design the marking rubric so that they can be failed for other factors (be prescriptive about what sources must be used etc). Sadly AI use is more or less unprovable and the uni will back the student if they challenge.
Wonderful outcome but this national treasure never should have been under threat.
a huge day for the ANU and the @nteuact.bsky.social campaign to stop forced redundancies in the college of arts and social sciences and the college of science and medicine. This is genuinely an incredible result!
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In Canberra next week? Come along and celebrate the launch of Playtime 🧸
Delighted to have Play School actress & singer Justine Clarke launch the book!
🗓️ 22 September, 6pm
📍 ANU Harry Hartog
MUP claims that it is closing Meanjin on "purely financial grounds", yet it also asserts "the journal is not for sale"? They would rather it end and receive $0 than let somebody acquire it for $$?
Truly, one of the most shameful episodes in Australia's cultural life is unfolding
"If the ANU is not committed to research that tells the Australian story then well may we ask, what is the point of a national university?"
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I wrote for Crikey about the decision to shut Meanjin down - and to sever a connection to a hopeful progressive vision of Australian culture
I don't fall into the extreme camps that see generative AI as either the end of the humanities or its saviour. That said, I would never use AI in any of my writing and would request my name be taken off any joint paper that uses it. Imperfect, and frequently with typos, my voice is my own.
"Despite my role in authoring a hybrid model, I am increasingly convinced that a direct-election model has the best chance of passing the high bar of a referendum."
A mea culpa of sorts from me and a concise history of the Republic debate in Australia.
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ANU School of History invites applications for a PhD scholarship to research the Communist Party of Australia, 1970-91. The project continues the work of the late Prof Stuart Macintyre and is valued at AU$100,000 over a four year period.
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Chancel Culture, David Pope
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