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Ariadne Vromen @ariadnevromen.bsky.social · Aug 11

This is such a lovely post on mentors in academia - they are there at the start, and many stay important all the way through your career. As a sounding board, or writing yet another reference for you!
I’ve been lucky to have three people I consider great mentors & who helped me pay it forward too

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Aug 8

New, from me: I became a PhD student mostly because one person, Patricia Wallace Ingraham, told me I should do it.

She passed away recently, and it made me think about the role of mentorship in our lives. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

What it means to be a mentor

Who was the person that changed your life?

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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.

#AUListen 🎧 #DemocracySausage ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra...

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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Pandanus Petter @pandanuspetter.bsky.social · Jul 30

@marijataflaga.bsky.social @markriboldi.bsky.social and I have a chat about UBIs & crisis thinking in housing and social welfare policy. I haven't listened, so if I say anything regrettable just know I've grown and changed since back then (yesterday). 😱🏠💰🗣️

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Democracy Sausage: 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.

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Dr Nathan Fioritti @nathanfioritti.bsky.social · Jul 29

The latest from me in @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-greens-e...

The Greens’ expulsion of a co-founder is unlikely to jeopardise the party’s future

The expulsion of co-founder Drew Hutton shows transgender rights and safety are not negotiable for the party.

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Katrine Beauregard @katrinebeau.bsky.social · Jul 23

Just so infuriating everything

Our ANU @ouranu.bsky.social · Jul 23

"You would think that after the Nixon Review you would increase support for the one dedicated teaching program and research program in gender studies and feminist thinking that we have in the university.”

Prof. Melinda Cooper @melindacooper.bsky.social

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/902190...

ANU feminists slam cuts for 'destroying' gender studies program

ANU leadership likened to Donald Trump's chainsaw cutting of public service.

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Pandanus Petter @pandanuspetter.bsky.social · Jul 24

Should we lower the voting age to 16, and if so should we make it compulsory? The gang (@jillesheppard.bsky.social, @powercleanpolitics.bsky.social @blairwilliams26.bsky.social Faith Gordon) and I weigh in. Check it out!
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Should Australia lower the voting age to 16 like the UK? We asked 5 experts

The UK wants to allow 16 and 17-year-olds to vote in the next general election in 2029. 5 experts give their verdicts on if Australia should do the same.

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Josh Holloway @jholloway.bsky.social · Jul 25

Good idea. Australia's R&D investment is abysmal, and Australian big business in particular ride on the coattails of everyone else.

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · Jul 25

The solution to Australia's productivity problem could be more investment in research and development, and a new tax on big business might be one way to achieve that.

Tax big businesses that don't invest in new technology, science body argues

The solution to Australia's productivity problem could be more investment in research and development, and a new tax on big business might be one way to achieve that.

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Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · Jul 18

Call for Papers: APSA T&L Group Workshop: AI and Digital Literacy in Teaching Political Studies – 11 and 12 September 2025

auspsa.org.au/job-alert/latest/apsa-tl-group-workshop-ai-and-digital-literacy-in-teaching-political-studies-11-and-12-september-2025/

APSA T&L Group Workshop: AI and Digital Literacy in Teaching Political Studies – 11 and 12 September 2025 - Australian Political Studies Association

Call for papers The Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) Teaching and Learning Group invites abstracts for an upcoming education workshop to explore what it means for political studies grad...

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emilyrosefoley.bsky.social @emilyrosefoley.bsky.social · Jul 17

Hello Sydneysiders! On Tuesday 23rd Sep join Frank Bongiorno, George Megalogenis, @bspiesbutcher.bsky.social, @lizhumphrys.bsky.social & me for our public event A New Australian Politics: Rupture or Realignment. Registration is free & we'd love to see you there! events.humanitix.com/a-new-austra...

A New Australian Politics: Rupture or Realignment
Please join us on at the University of Technology Sydney on Tuesday 23 September 2025, for a public event on the future of Australian democracy.

Is Australia entering a new political era? With a record majority off a near record low primary vote, the new parliament continues the rise of new electoral coalitions, unsettling our assumptions about class, gender, race, and power.
Our stellar panellists George Megalogenis, Frank Bongiorno, Elizabeth Humphrys, Ben Spies-Butcher, and Emily Foley will be engaged in a wide-ranging discussion exploring whether we’re witnessing a rupture or a realignment in Australian politics, and what it means for political life today. The conversation will explore how the traditional party duopoly is being eroded under pressure from shifting demographics, growing economic inequality, and increasing political disillusionment. What happens when the working class no longer feels represented, and when younger, more diverse voters no longer see themselves in the major parties?
Tuesday 23 September — UTS Green Lecture Theatre

Building 7 — Room 025 (full location details below)
Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/a-new-australian-politics-rupture-or-realignment
Speakers
George Megalogenis is an author and journalist with over thirty years’ experience in the media, including over a decade in the federal parliamentary press gallery. His latest Quarterly Essay, Minority Report, explores the strategies and secret understandings of a political culture under pressure.
Frank Bongiorno is based at the Australian National University and author of several works of Australian history, including The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed Australia (2015) and Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia (2022). He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of Humanities.
Elizabeth Humphrys is the Head of Discipline of Social and Political Scie…

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Mark Riboldi @markriboldi.bsky.social · Jul 16

"Part of a worldwide trend towards right-wing populism, Advance will likely continue to be at the centre of conservative politics in Australia."

Me writing for @theconversation.com on conservative campaign group Advance.

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Right-wing political group Advance is in the headlines. What is it and what does it stand for?

The husband of antisemitism special envoy Jillian Segal has donated to Advance. Here’s what the group’s all about.

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Katrine Beauregard @katrinebeau.bsky.social · Jul 13

New paper from my colleagues. But also love that the staff-led campaign against ANU budget cuts gets tag here

Representation @repjournal.bsky.social · Jul 13

Hot off the press!

Check out our new article by Keith Dowding & Adriano Giuliani @ouranu.bsky.social

From reviewing 51 different terms, they find "most conceptions of #representation are logically & empirically compatible with each other"

Go take a look!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Political Representation: A Typology and Synthesis

There is a vast array of different terms applied to diverse aspects of political representation. We provide a review of 51 different terms which we discuss under three broad types: fundamental (or ...

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Ariadne Vromen @ariadnevromen.bsky.social · Jun 23

Thank you for the incredibly engaged review of our book Story Tech! - currently available free online 📚

LSE Review of Books @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · Jun 23

Story Tech: Power, Storytelling, and Social Change Advocacy by Filippo Trevisan @michaelvaughan.bsky.social‬ @lseinequalities.bsky.social @ariadnevromen.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social @uofmpress.bsky.social

#Review by Juliana Reimberg @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social‬

Storytelling for advocacy in the digital age - LSE Review of Books

Story Tech: Power, Storytelling and Social Change Advocacy by Filippo Trevisan, Michael Vaughan & Ariadne Vromen examines digital storytelling for advocacy.

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Ben Raue @benraue.com · Jun 19

Today's blog post uses my dataset of election results adjusted to modern boundaries dating back to 2025 to look at how each seat's position *relative to other seats* has changed over that time, and since 2022. The article focuses solely on 2PP for simplicity's sake #ausvotes

How seats changed relative to Australia in 2025

I’ve previously posted a number of times before about the dataset I have compiled of election results since 2004, adjusted for 2025 electoral boundaries. Most recently, prior to the election,…

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Andrea Carson @acarson.bsky.social · Jun 17

Join Us. 👇
As president of @auspsa.bsky.social we have sent a letter to Macquarie Uni @macqpac.bsky.social expressing our deep concern at proposed cuts to politics teaching and jobs. auspsa.org.au/job-alert/ap...

APSA's letter to Macquarie University - Australian Political Studies Association

APSA Statement on Proposed Cuts at Macquarie University APSA has expressed deep concern over proposed cuts to Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, including the resting of the...

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Sofia Ammassari @ammassarisofia.bsky.social · Jun 17

Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been published open access today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 💫

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on.

A quick 🧵:

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emilyrosefoley.bsky.social @emilyrosefoley.bsky.social · Jun 17

We're in @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social's Political Insight this week unpacking a bit about what British parties could learn from Australia’s election journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

What British Parties Could Learn From Australia’s Election - Emily Foley, Zareh Ghazarian, Rob Manwaring, Ben Wellings, 2025

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Jun 11

We'll be kicking off the Seoul IPSA Conference on Sunday 13 July with a panel on "The Supply & Demand of Right-Wing Populism in the 2020s"

Featuring papers by @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, @dafnoukos.bsky.social, @benstanley.eu, @rheinisch.bsky.social, & me.

If you're not at church, do come along!

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Pandanus Petter @pandanuspetter.bsky.social · Jun 12

A really fascinating article which has come along just as I'm thinking about political place-making, representations of self and Bob Katter...

Journal of Australian Studies @jas-jozstudies.bsky.social · Jun 12

Next in 49.2, guest editor @sybiln.bsky.social examines the impact of Menzies' narrative of self as a child of the Victorian Mallee on shaping public knowledge about the regions.

#OzStudies #Menzies #elites #RegionalHistory #Mallee

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Screenshot of journal article. Title: "Robert Menzies’s Mallee: The Region as a Frame of Elite Struggle". Author: Sybil Nolan, University of Melbourne. Abstract: This article explores how Australia’s longest-serving prime minister, Sir Robert Menzies (1894–1978), framed his origin story as a child of the Victorian Mallee. By 1898, when Menzies was three, the Federation drought had begun. Local water trusts charged farmers and residents for water that often they were unable to deliver. The result was political conflict over water security. Although Menzies, who grew up in Jeparit, remembered the drought all his life, the water crisis itself received scant notice in his memoir, Afternoon Light (1967). This article considers the agency of elites in shaping public knowledge of the regions from which they rise and how critical elite history can use interdisciplinary approaches to produce new insights into elites and their social impact.

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Centre for Deliberative Democracy @deldemucan.bsky.social · Jun 10

We had the pleasure of hosting the @auspsa.bsky.social @popgroupaus.bsky.social Workshop, where scholars from around Australia discussed timely topics.
Thank you to organisers, Dr Jordan McSwiney and @friedelm1.bsky.social, and to Faculty of BGL Dean, Prof Uwe Dulleck, for his warm opening remarks.

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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · Jun 2

New article!

‘With great power comes great responsibility’: climate change and the politics of simulation of the oil industry by Luca Mavelli.

Welcome to the desert of the real and the politics of simulation of the oil industry!

doi.org/10.1080/0964...

ABSTRACT
Research on how oil companies have misled the public and deflected responsibility for climate change suggests that, since the mid-2000s, the oil industry has shifted from traditional to new denialism regimes, including greenwashing and framing climate change as consumer-driven. I argue that a more profound transformation is underway: the oil industry is embedding itself within climate leadership not merely to circumvent the barriers posed by climate change to fossil capital accumulation but to remove them by reshaping reality through simulation. Drawing on Baudrillard, I show how this simulation reframes climate change as a techno-capitalist challenge and socio-economic opportunity, recasting the oil industry from main culprit to ultimate saviour. Prompted by Al Jaber’s controversial appointment as COP28 president, I examine how, in this neoliberal simulated reality, the existential question of climate change is ‘dissolved’ and ‘resurrected’ within a market-driven logic that advances fossil capitalism no longer despite but through climate change.

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Ben Raue @benraue.com · Jun 2

Excellent piece from the data journos at @australia.theguardian.com explaining the mechanics of why the Greens lost seats - widely dispersed votes, redistribution, three-cornered contests and yes, going backwards in the vote.

What went wrong for the Greens in the Australian election?

The Greens lost three seats and a leader at the 2025 federal election. Here’s how it happened

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Pat Leslie @palesl.bsky.social · May 28

Hello ANU staff members.

We are once again asking for you to read and consider signing this latest open letter to our executive, requesting that they reconsider the path that they are taking (cutting further than they need to).

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open letter: Staff call on the ANU executive to stop these unnecessary cuts

Fact sheet on 'Renew ANU so far': https://shorturl.at/iYVjc Open Letter PDF for print with QR codes to sign: https://shorturl.at/5KYs3 For updates: Subscribe to OurANU Substack: https://substack.com...

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Ben Spies-Butcher @bspiesbutcher.bsky.social · May 29

The Macquarie PhD scholarship on our new Climate Economy project is now open - working with me, @garethbryant.bsky.social Sophie Weber, @clairerhiannon.bsky.social & Svenja Keele. We'll explore how climate change remakes our political economy. Topic negotiable.

www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...

The climate economy: Emerging strategies for Australia

Join a PhD project on Australia's climate economy, exploring how transport, policy, and finance adapt to climate change.

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Ariadne Vromen @ariadnevromen.bsky.social · May 26

Powerful statement by the most influential and well known political scientists - worth reading in full

Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science @skytteprize.bsky.social · May 23

Twenty-one Skytte Prize winner in a joint letter in today's @financialtimes.com : “President Donald Trump and his administration are on a spectacularly dangerous path”

Read more here : www.skytteprize.com/news/twenty-...

Twenty-one Skytte Prize winners speak out | Skytteprize

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Mark Riboldi @markriboldi.bsky.social · May 22

"...revolving-door pathways from student politics to Parliament and then private sector boardrooms bypass real work experience and meaningful community engagement.”

I chatted to the European Centre for Populism Studies for this "incisive" interview:

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Dr. Riboldi: State Capture by Big Business Is a Core Threat to Australian Democracy—As Elsewhere - ECPS

In this incisive interview with the European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS), Dr. Mark Riboldi—a lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney and

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