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Michelle Arrow
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Historian. Author, The Seventies (2019), co-author Personal Politics (2024). Writing a biography of Anne Deveson. President, Australian Historical Association. Whitlam Institute Fellow. FASSA. She/her. Views my own. http://newsouthbooks.com.au/books. .. more

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Michelle Arrow is an Australian historian, academic and author who is currently a Professor of History at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. She is best known for her work on Australia in the 1970s. Arrow won the Ernest Scott Prize in 2020 for The Seventies: The personal, the political and the making of modern Australia. Arrow is the Vice-President of the Australian Historical Association. .. more

Political science 37%
Sociology 25%
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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 3h
There’s a whole Honours thesis to be written about this one:

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ozkitsch @ozkitsch.bsky.social · 4h
COLDEST 100: 2026 EDITION
19. Have a Go (1978)
Mojo Singers
#coldest100 #hottest100
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19 COLDEST 100 | Mojo Singers | Have a Go (1978)
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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 4h
And this definitely deserves its place in the top 25

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ozkitsch @ozkitsch.bsky.social · 4h
COLDEST 100: 2026 EDITION
22. You Should Hear How She Talks About You (1985)
Simon Gallaher
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22 COLDEST 100 | Simon Gallaher | You Should Hear How She Talks About You (1985)
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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 4h
She’s definitely the best performer in this extravaganza

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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 4h
Also outstanding:

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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 5h
This is outstanding:

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ozkitsch @ozkitsch.bsky.social · 5h
COLDEST 100: 2026 EDITION
42. Centrelink Hold Music (2025)
Brekky Boy
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42 COLDEST 100 | Brekky Boy | Centrelink Hold Music (2025)
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ozkitsch @ozkitsch.bsky.social · 6h
COLDEST 100: 2026 EDITION
51. Viva Las Vegas (1995)
Warwick Capper
#coldest100 #hottest100 @rhrettrospective
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51 COLDEST 100 | Warwick Capper | Viva Las Vegas (1995)
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ozkitsch @ozkitsch.bsky.social · 7h
COLDEST 100: 2026 EDITION
84. Border Shopping Town (1986)
Border Shopping Town Albury
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84 COLDEST 100 | Border Shopping Town | Border Shopping Town (1986)
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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 6d
And one more thing. Students. If you have a professor who is, for some reason, outsourcing their own job to ChatGPT....drop the class.

If they tell you to "ask ChatGPT" for sources, drop the class.

Because they apparently don't know their own discipline well enough to teach it.

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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 10d
Rich private schools are gouging parents with huge fee increases while also pocketing millions a year in govt money – yet 98% of public schools don’t get their minimum funding.

Should Labor be pouring billions a year into the private system while public schools are underfunded?

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Sky Kirkham @skykirkham.bsky.social · 11d
Powerful statement from Louise Adler and a huge loss to see her go from AWW.
I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler
Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation
www.theguardian.com

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Bethany Keats @bethanykeats.bsky.social · 12d
📣Postdoc in creative writing 📣

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Postdoctoral Fellow, Creative Writing - Cairns, QLD, Australia - Townsville, QLD, Australia - Other, QLD, Australia
College of Arts, Society and Education | James Cook University Fixed term to December 2029 Part-time (20%), increasing to 60% by 2027  Located at either the Cairns Nguma-bada campus or Townsville Beb...
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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 12d
‘It’s financial stupidity to enter the humanities in any of our universities, and the current federal government has done nothing to abate that.’ Great piece by Ben Quilty on our undervaluing of the arts in Australia:
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘A nation of rich cowards’: Australia needs its dreamers but the arts are underfunded, undervalued and despised
We need a society that values its visionaries, those who go against the grain to create new dreams that reveal other ways of being
www.theguardian.com

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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 13d
BREAKING: 3 members of the Adelaide Festival Board have resigned after it refused to reverse its decision to rescind Dr Abdel-Fattah's invitation. No statement has been issued but their names have been quietly removed from the website.

Four people are now responsible for the ongoing crisis.

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 14d
The Adelaide Writers Festival now wrecked by the Adelaide Festival Board, half of which was appointed late last year: a marketing executive; a former politician; a local councillor/real estate agent; an airport manager; a lawyer; a media consultant; and a banker. Another public arts takeover fiasco.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 15d
Where’s Tony Burke?

It’s times like these you realise that arts ministers have no interest in defending the arts, and that govts are willing to burn millions of $ for political reasons.

Adelaide’s board has just squandered millions of $ and months of work and countless opportunities for writers…

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James Ley @jamesley.bsky.social · 15d
Denis Muller on the Adelaide shitshow

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As authors abandon Adelaide Writers’ Week after cancelling of Randa Abdel-Fattah, is free speech in tatters?
The decision to silence a Palestinian Australian author goes well beyond the standards of the Racial Discrimination Act and ordinary standards of free speech.
theconversation.com

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Catriona Menzies-Pike @catrionamp.bsky.social · 15d
Imagine if the board of a major arts org issued a statement saying they would respect and defend the programming decisions of their staff? Unlikely to happen, but it would be an invigorating and much needed win for artistic and curatorial freedom.

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 15d
Bendigo Writers Festival, Meanjin, now Adelaide Writers … powerful vested interests would rather destroy the cultural institutions they are supposedly responsible for than allow certain voices to be heard
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Adelaide Festival board facing a stark choice: Are they willing to sacrifice the entire festival to prevent a single Palestinian-Australian author from speaking?

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 15d
Adelaide Festival board facing a stark choice: Are they willing to sacrifice the entire festival to prevent a single Palestinian-Australian author from speaking?

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 15d
This is how the Oz are reporting the (main??) criticism of Bell: she once made a decision with others on the HIGH COURT about environmental protest law bans (I remember covering those, draconian) that was later CITED by a different court to allow anti genocide protests to go ahead. My god.

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Jane Caro @janecaro.bsky.social · 15d
My statement regarding my decision to withdraw from this year’s Adelaide Writers Festival.

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Australian Women's History Network @auswhn.bsky.social · Dec 18
As we approach the end of 2025, historians @michellearrow.bsky.social and @zorasimic.bsky.social reflect on Anne Summers’ 1975 book, Damned Whores and God’s Police, fifty years later.

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Anne Summers: Living in the Seventies | Australian Women's History Network
Vera Mackie joins Michelle Arrow and Zora Simic in commemorating fifty years of Anne Summers' 1975 feminist blockbuster, Damned Whores and God's Police.
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · Dec 14
Looks like we've become complacent since the gun restrictions of the 1990s - time for even more stringent rules. The worst gun violence in Australia in 30 years...
Australia had the ‘gold standard’ on gun control. The Bondi beach terror attack may force it to confront its surging number of weapons
There are now more guns in the community per capita than in the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre, with at least 2,000 new firearms lawfully entering the community every week
www.theguardian.com

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Frances Jones @francesjones.bsky.social · Dec 8
‘No one seems to care’: scholars decry plight of British Library

Historian Peter Mandler said it was “a sorry state when a major piece of public infrastructure like this is hit so badly and no one in authority even seems to notice, much less care”.

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‘No one seems to care’: scholars decry plight of British Library - Research Professional News
Humanities researchers suffer amid “agonisingly slow” recovery from 2023 cyberattack, as strikes cause further delays
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Prof Melanie O'Brien @drmelob.bsky.social · Nov 27
THIS 👇
marygillis.bsky.social Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · Nov 27
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · Nov 27
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business
Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...
www.cnn.com