Listen to 'Late Night Live' as David Marr speaks with Luke Taylor, co-author (with Ivan Namirrkki) of 'Peter Marralwanga', about his latest book exploring the life and art of a pivotal Aboriginal artist in the Western Arnhem Land painting tradition.
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I'm going to watch @jillshepherd.bsky.social on the big screen
If you missed the launch of ‘Landslide' last week, it’s now available to watch on YouTube!
Hosted by veteran journalist Nick Bryant, in conversation with co-author Jill Sheppard, they discuss the unexpected landslide victory for the Australian Labor Party in 2025.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMFO...
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A standout review by Liz Conor on ’The Wild Australia Show: The Story of an Aboriginal Performance Troupe and its Afterlives', published in Australian Book Review.
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ANU Press Coming Soon. Cover image of 'Believing on Upside Down Country'.
Coming soon: An innovative history of religion, place and belonging in Bendigo!
'Believing on Upside Down Country' shows how people in one dynamic region have managed to negotiate religious and cultural diversity.
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My chapter on Vā in Papua New Guinean ideas of place is finally out along with this excellent open access volume from ANU Press
#anthrosky #anthropology #Moana #oceania
Excited to see this in print! Co-edited with my @utas.edu.au colleagues Kristyn Harman and Anna Claydon, the result of several years' labour by a group of amazing scholars!
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ANU Press New Release. Cover image of Australian Journal of Biography and History: No. 11, 2026
The latest edition of the 'Australian Journal of Biography and History’ emerges from a powerful convergence of history, geography, environment and lived experience unified from the theme 'Writing Tasmanian Lives’.
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BOOK REVIEW
Faleolo, R. (Lute). (2026). Mandates and Missteps: Australian Government Scholarships to the Pacific – 1948 to 2018: By Anna Kent. Canberra, ANU Press,The Journal of Pacific History, 61(1), 194–195. doi.org/10.1080/0022...
ANU Press Coming Soon. Cover image of Australian Journal of Biography and History.
The upcoming issue of the 'Australian Journal of Biography and History' explores what it means to write lives connected to Lutruwita/Tasmania, an island shaped by both isolation and connection.
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ANU Press New Release. Cover image of 'Va Moana'.
Ever heard of vā?
'Vā Moana: Space and Relationality in Pacific Thought and Identity’, brings together a range of voices, many from Pacific communities themselves, to share how vā is understood, lived and evolving across different places and contexts.
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Thrilled to see that the latest edition of @auswhn.bsky.social’s Lilith: A Feminist History Journal features not one – but two – book reviews by my PhD students! 📚
Congratulations Kaitlin Mills and Michael Stockwell 🤓
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ANU Press New Release. Cover image of 'Lilith: A Feminist History Journal'.
This issue of ‘Lilith' explores gender in 20th-century Australia and Britain, from maternal feminism and 'Citrus Queen' pageants to motherhood and mental health, and the arguments that won abortion law reform in 1960s Britain.
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#feminist #feminism #gender
Proud to have a chapter in this upcoming volume along side some amazing Moana scholars!
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ANU Press Coming Soon. Cover image of 'Va Moana'.
Vā may be a small word, but it carries expansive meaning.
Our upcoming title, 'Vā Moana: Space and Relationality in Pacific Thought and Identity’, explores how vā, wā, and related Indigenous concepts are lived, theorised and practised today.
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You can grab your weekend reading - a chapter on the Greens' federal campaign from Stewart Jackson and me - right here: doi.org/10.22459/L.2...
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📚 BOOK LAUNCH 📚
What really happened in the 2025 election?
Hosted by renowned journalist Nick Bryant, join leading experts for the launch of 'Landslide: The 2025 Australian Federal Election'.
🗓️ 16 April
⏰ 6 pm
📍National Library of Australia
Register 👇
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One for the political tragics. My chapter is in there somewhere.
#auspol
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ANU Press New Release. Cover image of Landslide: The 2025 Federal Election.
Australia’s 2025 election upended politics. Labor’s landslide, the Liberals’ collapse and a surging non-major vote are examined through campaigns, demographics, social media, AI, misinformation and the 'Trump effect' in this authoritative illustrated book.
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ANU Press Coming Soon: Cover image of Lilith: A Feminist History Journal: Number 31
Issue 31 of ‘Lilith' comes at a time when feminist history feels both urgent and under threat. From rising fascism to cuts in academic freedom, history and gender studies are being slashed, while scholars face growing precarity.
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ANU Press New Release Cover image of Peter Marralwanga Painter of the Djang of western Arnhem Land
Peter Marralwanga was not simply an artist, he was a custodian of country, a keeper of sacred knowledge and a defining force in the painting traditions of western Arnhem Land.
This book is not just history; it’s a living legacy.
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🚨OUT TOMORROW🚨
This richly illustrated forthcoming book explores the life and art of Aboriginal artist, Peter Marralwanga, a pivotal figure in the Western Arnhem Land painting tradition.
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ANU Press Coming Soon. Cover image of Peter Marralwanga: Painter of the Djang of western Arnhem Land
“There are only a handful of studies that give such brilliant, in-depth, serious analysis of an individual Aboriginal Australian artist’s life and work. The combination of genealogical, cultural and thematic analysis is superb.”
– Dr Henry Skerritt, University of Virginia
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