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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · 2d

How has Australia's recognition of Palestine exposed an 'iceberg adrift' in our society?

#ICYMI Tune in to the latest episode of #DemocracySausage: Two years after October 7

🎙️Dr Bob Bowker & Professor @markgkenny.bsky.social

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · 10d

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Democracy Sausage Episode: An unfinished revolution | Australian Studies Institute

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · 10d

📌 #AUListen #DemocracySausage 🎙️ Author Virginia Haussegger joins @marijataflaga.bsky.social & @markgkenny.bsky.social to discuss her new book tracing fifty years of Australian feminism and ask why the revolution that began in 1975 remains unfinished.

Listen now 🎧https://bit.ly/4nRvyGC.

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Marija Taflaga @marijataflaga.bsky.social · 16d

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In this week's DS episode @jennaprice.bsky.social, Sinclair Davidson, Mark and I discuss the governance crisis in the Australian University sector.

It is telling when folk from across the political spectrum agree on the problem and most of the solution

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Universities in crisis

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · 16d

#AUListen #DemocracySausage 🎙️ Columnist Dr Jenna Price & economist Prof Sinclair Davidson join Dr @marijataflaga.bsky.social & Prof @markgkenny.bsky.social to dissect the crisis engulfing Australia's university sector and ask whether it can be fixed before it's too late.

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Democracy Sausage Episode: Universities in crisis | Australian Studies Institute

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · 17d

#AUViews "This is the reality Albanese confronts regionally and globally. One where smaller nations are less reluctant to eschew longstanding allegiances, and where larger nations grow ever more disdainful of those below them."

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Opinion: Albanese is seeking order in a wild world | Australian Studies Institute

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · 24d

#AUListen #DemocracySausage 🎙️ Historian @frankbongiorno.bsky.social joins @markgkenny.bsky.social & @marijataflaga.bsky.social to dissect the Liberal Party's existential crisis and asks whether Australia's 'natural party of government' is heading for collapse.

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Latest Democracy Sausage episode: Echo chamber politics | Australian Studies Institute

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ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) @anuregnet.bsky.social · 29d

📚 Join us for the launch of @k8henne.bsky.social and Matt Ventresca’s new book, which examines the social and regulatory impacts of concussion crisis discourses and how certain bodies are central within these narratives while others are pushed to the margins. Learn more & register: lnkd.in/epuPSjJb

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · Sep 10

🎧 #AUListen #DemocracySausage 🎙️ Former senior Australian diplomat Jane Hardy joins Professor @markgkenny.bsky.social to examine the new alliances emerging from Beijing's recent military parade and what they mean for global security.

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Democracy Sausage Episode: Axis of upheaval | Australian Studies Institute

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · Sep 9

📣We are pleased to share that our Director, Prof @markgkenny.bsky.social, has been appointed the inaugural Australia in China Fellow.👏

Mark will visit China later this year to deliver public lectures and participate in academic & cultural exchange activities.

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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · Sep 8

I tossed around various headline ideas for this piece, ie: “No raucous in this caucus” or “All quiet in the ambition factory”. Who would have thought the largest ever Labor backbench would turn out to have its smallest voice.

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · Sep 8

"Recent controversies suggest a government committing only to what it must while facing almost no internal pressure to aim higher or act faster."

#AUViews Read Now ausi.anu.edu.au/news/opinion... by @markgkenny.bsky.social via @canberratimes.bsky.social.

Opinion: Labor is professionalised to the point of pointlessness. Its MPs need to find their voice | Australian Studies Institute

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frankbongiorno.bsky.social @frankbongiorno.bsky.social · Sep 3

Social Sciences Week 2025 event! Join www.chass.org.au for my conversation with Cassandra Atherton, Tracy O’Shaughnessy and Jessica Wilkinson on their prize-winning project.
Monday, 8 September at 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm AEST
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Poetic Portraits: A Conversation with Cassandra Atherton, Tracy O’Shaughnessy and Jessica Wilkinson

‘Poetic Portraits’ was the winner of the Council for the Humanities Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) Distinctive Works Prize in 2024. This online event, for Social Sciences Week…

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · Sep 3

Is Tasmania ungovernable or just badly governed?

#AUListen #DemocracySausage 🎙 @markgkenny.bsky.social & @marijataflaga.bsky.social are joined by A/Prof Kate Crowley & @benraue.com ‬to discuss Tasmania’s perpetual political instability in the wash-up from July’s election.

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Democracy Sausage Episode: Tasmania's minority report | Australian Studies Institute

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · Aug 13

📢 We are excited to announce the #SFSP25 scholars joining the 2025 Stephen FitzGerald Scholars Program, supported by the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations.

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🎉 Congrats to all, and thanks to all participating universities for their support!

2025 Stephen FitzGerald Scholars Announced

Forty-five of the brightest international students from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan studying at universities across this nation will benefit from inside access to Australia’s defining cultura...

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · Aug 6

📣 #AUListen #DemocracySausage 🎙️@jillesheppard.bsky.social joins @marijataflaga.bsky.social to talk about the upcoming productivity roundtables, protests on starvation in Palestine and having the courage to act.

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Latest Democracy Sausage episode: Moral muscle

Political scientist Jill Sheppard joins Democracy Sausage to talk about the upcoming productivity roundtables, protests on starvation in Palestine and having the courage to act.What is a mandate and h...

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · Jul 31

How do politicians talk about housing, and does it impact policy?

#ICYMI Political scientists @markriboldi.bsky.social & @pandanuspetter.bsky.social join @marijataflaga.bsky.social to discuss housing policy, safety nets and the fair go.

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Democracy Sausage Episode: Safety nets below and a roof above

Political scientists Mark Riboldi and Pandanus Petter join Democracy Sausage to discuss housing policy, safety nets and the fair go. How do politicians talk about housing, and does it impact policy? W...

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · Jul 31

Our latest e-bulletin is out now!

👏Congratulations to the successful 2025 AuSI Visiting Fellows
📢#AUJoin Our team is looking for a new Manager
📌Apply Now: InASA ECR Publication Subsidy Scheme

& more 👉 bit.ly/2025Bulletin14.

ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · Jul 25

#ICYMI On the latest #DemocracySausage ep🎙️Professor John Blaxland joins @markgkenny.bsky.social and @marijataflaga.bsky.social to discuss the tone in new parliament, the US-Australia relationship and AUKUS.

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Latest Democracy Sausage episode: Speaking loud and soft

Security expert John Blaxland joins Democracy Sausage to talk Trump, Australia and taking a strategic approach to the relationship. As parliament returns and a new opposition leader in place, what ca...

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · Jul 21

"By far, the bigger risk for the PM now is hubris - dangerous assumptions like thinking he has a special bond with the people, that his government can inch along procedurally, and that the next election is already in the bag."

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Opinion: Parliament, politics, and the unity paradox

By Mark KennyA version of this article was originally published by The Canberra Times.Despite moral panics over Anthony Albanese (a) not getting a sit-down with Donald Trump, and (b) getting a sit-dow...

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · Jul 17

On the latest #DemocracySausage ep🎙️historian @frankbongiorno.bsky.social joins @markgkenny.bsky.social & @marijataflaga.bsky.social to unpack the current political environment and discuss how you cannot stand still in response to uncertainty. #auspol

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Democracy Sausage Episode: Pressure to act

Historian Frank Bongiorno joins Democracy Sausage talk about political independence, and the pressure to be agile and take action.Is Albanese’s John Curtin Oration pivot-point speech on the level of C...

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · Jul 14

"The tragedy is that this presidency has always been a shakedown, and it has occurred right out in the open."

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Opinion: Stress-testing democracy: a modern tragedy

By Mark KennyA version of this article was originally published by The Canberra Times.Suspend reality for a moment for this surprisingly instructive "thought" experiment.Imagine that US President Dona...

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ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) @anuregnet.bsky.social · Jul 10

After reaching unprecedented heights, net overseas migration is falling rapidly. Why is this happening and what does it mean for Australia’s economy and migration policy? Alan Gamlen and Peter McDonald explain 🔽
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Why is net overseas migration plummeting?

After reaching unprecedented heights, net overseas migration is falling rapidly. Why is this happening and what does it mean for Australia’s economy and migration policy?

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · Jul 9

New ep of #DemocracySausage is out! 🎙️
@shaunratcliff.bsky.social joins @markgkenny.bsky.social & @marijataflaga.bsky.social to unpack the latest election numbers and what they reveal about the state of our democracy.

Don’t miss this one! #auspol 🎧 #AUListen bit.ly/4kwNcNQ.

Democracy Sausage Episode: The pendulum swing

The numbers are in. Pollster Shaun Ratcliff joins Democracy Sausage to dissect the latest election data and what it means for the future of #auspol.What do the numbers tell us about when the shift to ...

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · Jul 7

"In this, the age of impunity, Sir Major invites us to consider whether we are different from Trump's Americans or merely distant." #AUViews

bit.ly/4nBkKNo by @markgkenny.bsky.social via @canberratimes.bsky.social.

Opinion: Major questions facing Australia and the West

By Mark KennyA version of this article was originally published by The Canberra Times.How did you feel when Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, removed aid from the poorest people on the planet?I...

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