Opinion piece in The Sydney Morning Herald about community radio station 2SER-FM. Titled 'Shutting this priceless cultural asset would hurt.'

The University of Technology in Sydney is poised to close community radio station 2SER-FM. Here's my opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald, arguing that it would be pure folly to do so.

How will history regard the Albanese government? On turning a blind eye to war crimes in Iran, Gaza and Lebanon

Is there any moral limit to what Israel or the US could do, any war crime that goes too far, for Australia to place conditions on our loyalty? It seems there are no red lines.
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b&w photo of people on a train platform. In the centre, looking towards the photographer, is a young woman wearing tartan skirt and dark sunglasses, holding a radio transistor in her hand. A train carriage is behind her and various passengers on the platform.

b&w photo of the inside of a train carriage with a young woman seated holding a radio transistor, another woman passenger is in the row in front wearing a hat.

This young woman photographed using a transistor radio on a train in Sydney's Redfern on 21 April 1960 (photo by Alec Iverson, State Library of NSW)🗃️

Australian screen industry crushed as Universal shutters Matchbox Pictures, with 60 jobs lost Peak screenwriting body says the closure is a reminder industry cannot rely on ‘whims of international studios to keep us afloat’

Australian screen industry crushed as Universal shutters Matchbox Pictures, with 60 jobs lost

Peak screenwriting body says the closure is a reminder industry cannot rely on ‘whims of international studios to keep us afloat’ #AusPol

www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

As part of our Best Article Prize announcement, we're featuring articles from the Special Issue on the Nuclear Pacific.
Marco de Jong's open access article, '‘Our Pacific Through Native Eyes’: Māori Activism in the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Movement, 1980–5, is available here>

When quizzed about it, the premier flagged that arming CSG NSW would also be considered. "Clearly from media reports and my own enquiries, that CSG was in contact with NSW Police, and while there were police on site, clearly not enough to deal with the threat as history's tragically shown," he said. "Now that means a root and branch change to security protocols and provisions in place. "It also means we need to have a longer, deeper look at arming CSG. Now that is a step that we haven't taken in the past."

We should be deeply alarmed that the Premier is talking about permanently arming the “Community Security Group”, a Mossad-linked Zionist organisation that runs paramilitary training camps in Israel. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children - The Shot Breathe, slowly. It helps.  Cry if you need to. All of this hurts. But please understand, before we go any...

Here's me. "Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children"

📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life

Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?

Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Save the State Library of Victoria!

A petition in support of the State Library of Victoria, currently facing significant cuts: c.org/Ny9tCp8jRM

This text is taken from the Jan-June 2026 UNSW Press catalogue (too much to fit in this box) - https://unsw.press/catalogues/

Happy to share my new book 'Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War', which will be published by UNSW Press on 1 April 2026.

CFP: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present, a 2 day workshop (15-16 June 2026) 🗃️Please share - and submit an abstract!

If Gough Whitlam hadn’t been dismissed 50 years ago today, he may never have gone on to popularise fax machines and the “smart phone” in these 1989 ads for Voca #vhsrevue #dismissal

Grandparenting tells us much about our history. It’s important to preserve these stories Grandparents can play a fundamental role in families, yet they have often been overlooked in Australian history.

Excited to be part of this incredible team writing the first history of grandparenting in Australia! grandparentsaustralia.net

Screening multicultural Australia • Ien Ang How migrants have made their presence felt in an evolving TV landscape

Thanks to Ien Ang and @insidestory.bsky.social for this very thoughtful review of my new book! inside.org.au/screening-mu...

Congratulations to AHA member David Lowe for the publication of his new book, "The Colombo Plan: Development Internationalism in Cold War Asia"! It's available to purchase here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

2026 Fellowships announced The State Library has awarded $314,000 in research funding.

We would like to extend our congratulations to all the recipients of The State Library of New South Wales 2026 Fellowships including #hcnswmember Dr Mark Dunn and our 2025 Max Kelly Award winner Ruby Ekkel!

Check out the full list of recipients via the link below

Straya!!! Albanese, Bowen and Watt helping break the world record. Go ALP.

Really strong story from @newcastleherald.bsky.social about the Hunter Region’s role sending F35 jet fighter weapons parts to Israel for its genocide in Gaza. The F35 regional hub in Williamtown isn’t for Australia’s defence, it’s a US controlled global weapons hub run by the US, for the US

Two History postdocs at UNSW (Sydney) and the net is wide: "open to candidates working on any time period from Ancient History to Contemporary History, any area or region, incl. global and international history, and any methodology, incl. oral history, gender history, history of race and more."

Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973* Abstract. In the aftermath of Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda’s South Asians in 1972, some of those made technically stateless arrived in India unsupported

I have a new article out.

TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.

academic.oup.com/past/advance...

Programs: Uncommon Sense – 7 October 2025, Uncommon Sense — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio An episode of Uncommon Sense on 7 October 2025

Thanks @uncommonsenseradio.bsky.social @3rrrfm.bsky.social for a wonderful interview this week about our new book 'Migrants, Television & Australian Stories'. Listen back here from 2hrs19mins: www.rrr.org.au/explore/prog...

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

This woman is amazing, not making her capture & mistreatment the story, keeping all eyes on Gaza and their plight against a genocidal regime. She is the best of us. Our governments around the world must act. Stop the genocide.

#FreePalestine

Prime Minister's Literary Awards Celebrating outstanding literary talent in Australia and the valuable contribution Australian writing makes to the nation’s cultural and intellectual life.

Congratulations to AHA member Geraldine Fela, who last week won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History for her book "Critical Care: Nurses on the frontline of Australia's AIDS crisis" (UNSW Press)! Read more about the winners here: creative.gov.au/news-events/...

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Chris Sidoti

Chris Sidoti, former Human Rights Commissioner, at the National Press Club:

“The Genocide Convention not only requires that we not commit genocide - it also requires that we act to prevent genocide.”

#npc

Interview about my new book from co-authors @sukhmanikhorana.bsky.social and Kate Darian-Smith on @2ser.bsky.social! www.2ser.com/stories/migr...

If The Thieving AI Company Can Survive The Legal Settlement, Then It Is Not Big Enough | Defector There is an easy answer to the question “How long does it take to write a book?” but it is not a true one. The easy answer is the duration between when you actually start putting your pen down on the ...

I wrote about how I am not buying the narrative that the anthropic AI settlement is good for authors: defector.com/if-the-thiev...

Learned so much from his work. R.I.P.

www.booktopia.com.au/migrants-tel...