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Christian Downie @christiandownie.bsky.social · 20h

Our forthcoming book Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment is profiled in The Guardian this morning

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... @anuregnet.bsky.social @cssn.org

Media and political attacks on Australia’s emissions targets ‘straight out of the climate obstruction playbook’, expert says

Prof Christian Downie points to the Business Council of Australia and News Corp newspapers as examples of deliberate obstruction

www.theguardian.com

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ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) @anuregnet.bsky.social · 18h

Join bsky.app/profile/seye... as he discusses The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health, his latest essay collection examining how power shapes knowledge practices, with a focus on what this means for efforts to transform academic global (public) health. Learn more: regnet.anu.edu.au/event/foreig...

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ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) @anuregnet.bsky.social · 5d

📢 We’re hiring a Research Fellow! Based at RegNet, this role contributes to the ARC Training Centre for Radiation Innovation (RadInnovate) through independent research on RadInnovate’s co-designed industry projects.

📅 Apply by 24 November. Learn more and apply here: jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...

ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) @anuregnet.bsky.social · 5d

ASEAN and Canada should seize the present opportunity to champion democracy and gender equity — and to follow through with meaningful action. Read the latest from @mutiara-indriani.bsky.social, Bernadette P. Resurrección and @cyncouette.bsky.social ▶️ fulcrum.sg/the-gender-d...

The Gender Dimension in ASEAN–Canada Relations: A Beacon of Hope | FULCRUM

ASEAN and Canada should seize the present opportunity to champion democracy and gender equity — and to follow through with meaningful action.

fulcrum.sg

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Christian Downie @christiandownie.bsky.social · 6d

When the UN Secretary-General is calling out PR firms for blocking action on climate change, we need to do something. My latest in @theconversation.com on PR firms and climate misinformation in Australia.

theconversation.com/pr-firms-are...

@anuregnet.bsky.social @anu-iceds.bsky.social @cssn.org

PR firms are spreading climate misinformation on behalf of fossil fuel companies. Could Australia stop them?

This week, Australian policymakers heard about the real and growing problem of climate misinformation. Stopping it would mean regulating the PR industry.

theconversation.com

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ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) @anuregnet.bsky.social · 7d

In session three of the RegNet AI Series, join @dalupton.bsky.social as she discusses her current work on how generative AI and the infrastructures supporting these tools affect the natural world. Learn more here: regnet.anu.edu.au/event/regnet...

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ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) @anuregnet.bsky.social · 7d

Economic shocks, social strains, and rising inequality have unsettled democracies everywhere. In this atmosphere of fear and anger, immigration has been cast as the culprit, offering populists a simple story for a complex age.

Read the latest from Alan Gamlen 🔽

The perfect storm: Why immigration has become the scapegoat for our age of crisis - 360

Economic shocks, social strains, and rising inequality have unsettled democracies everywhere. In this atmosphere of fear and anger, immigration has been cast as the culprit, offering populists a simpl...

360info.org

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Christian Downie @christiandownie.bsky.social · 14d

Ahead of our forthcoming book Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment, the inimitable @amywestervelt.bsky.social of @drilledmedia.bsky.social has just dropped the first episode of a podcast series covering each chapter.

The book is out 14th Oct & will be free to download, links below. @cssn.org

Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 21d

If you're a @drilledmedia.bsky.social listener you know I think social scientists are key sources if we want to understand why governments haven't acted on climate. So imagine my nerd delight to get my hands on an incredible new batch of research on climate obstruction. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

Welcome to the World of Obstruction

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

drilled.media

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ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) @anuregnet.bsky.social · 12d

Latest opinion piece from Hridesh Gajurel on the chances of real political progress in Nepal following the Gen Z revolution:
kathmandupost.com/columns/2025...

Opinion | Rapid political progress or more instability?

Nepal may serve as a global and historical inspiration if it successfully gets over the current transitional phase.

kathmandupost.com

ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) @anuregnet.bsky.social · 12d

Next Tuesday, join us for the launch of @k8henne.bsky.social's book, Violent Impacts: How Power and Inequality Shape the Concussion Crisis, co-authored with Dr Matt Ventresca.

📅 30 September 2025 | 4-6pm AEST
📍 Tea Room, Coombs Building, ANU
🔗 Learn more: lnkd.in/epuPSjJb

ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) @anuregnet.bsky.social · 26d

📚 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 School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) @anuregnet.bsky.social · 14d

RegNet PhD scholar and The Sir Roland Wilson Foundation scholar Kristian Hollins recently presented his research at the AIAL Conference, contributing to discussions on contemporary challenges in administrative decision-making. Read more here: regnet.anu.edu.au/news/kristia...

Kristian Hollins presents at the Australian Institute for Administrative Law’s National Conference | School of Regulation and Global Governance

PhD Scholar and Sir Roland Wilson Scholar Kristian Hollins presented their ongoing research to the AIAL National Conference in Perth.

regnet.anu.edu.au

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ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) @anuregnet.bsky.social · 14d

💡 From stewardship to regulating emerging technologies, RegNet academics and PhD scholars brought fresh perspectives to the NRCoP - National Regulators Community of Practice 2025 National Conference, helping to shape the future of regulatory thinking and practice. Read more here: lnkd.in/g-vVcmyF

Shaping the future of regulation: RegNet at NRCoP 2025 | School of Regulation and Global Governance

RegNet academics and PhD scholars brought fresh perspectives to the NRCoP 2025 National Conference, shaping the future of regulatory thinking and practice.

regnet.anu.edu.au

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Christian Downie @christiandownie.bsky.social · 20d

Plenting happening in climate and energy policy this week. Great to be on ABC Afternoon Briefing to discuss greenhouse gas targets and more (51min mark). @anu-iceds.bsky.social @anuregnet.bsky.social

iview.abc.net.au/show/afterno...

Afternoon Briefing: Thursday 18/9/2025

Melissa Clarke covers reaction to the government's 2035 emissions target, speaking with Greens Leader Larissa Waters, Nationals Leader David Littleproud, Innes Willox, Su McCluskey, Christian Downie p...

iview.abc.net.au

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ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) @anuregnet.bsky.social · 21d

Join @akamalnath.bsky.social as she shares insights from her forthcoming book, Corporations, Technology, and the Law, which explores how various new and not so new technologies are transforming corporations, and the legal and governance challenges that follow. More here: lnkd.in/gstpnyX7

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Regulation & Governance @reggovjournal.bsky.social · Sep 2

As we approach our 20th anniversary, we look back at an early contribution to Regulation & Governance, including this first editorial by the John Braithwaite, Cary Coglianese & David Levi-Faur that asked:

'Can regulation and governance make a difference?'

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Screenshot of the first paragraphs of first editorial in regulation & governance

Regulation and governance have become popular phenomena for social scientists to study and for good reason. Although redistributive, distributive and developmental policies still abound, the expanding part of governance is regulation. Indeed, few projects are more central to the social sciences than the study of regulation and regulatory governance. Regulation and the significant issues raised by it have become central to the work of social scientists from many disciplines – political science, economics, law, sociology, psychology, anthropology, history and others. Furthermore, the strong interest of other professional and scholarly communities, such as physicians, nutritionists, biologists, ecologists, geologists, pharmacists and chemists, makes regulatory issues even more central to scientists and practitioners who are perplexed by the demands for better, fairer, more efficient, and more participatory systems of governance.

We have established this journal to serve the needs of these varied professional and scholarly communities. We aim to provide a leading interdisciplinary platform for the study of regulation and its implications for governance. We seek to bridge and solidify discussions among a variety of relevant disciplines, serving the development of core theoretical and empirical insights in the study of regulation.

In this editorial introduction, we introduce the new journal first by offering an avowedly brief history of how interest in regulation has grown across the social science disciplines in the course of the last century. We then argue that the most recent buildup of that wave of research interest has coincided with a shift in political studies from an interest in government to governance. Finally, we distinguish regulation from governance and set out broadly, yet clearly, the intellectual agenda and vision for Regulation & Governance.

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ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) @anuregnet.bsky.social · 23d

Join Grace Arnot as she presents her research on how Australian youth view the commercial and political determinants of climate —from lobbying, marketing and greenwashing to strategies for embedding youth influence in climate research, policy and practice ▶️ regnet.anu.edu.au/event/engagi...

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Art Cotterell @artcotterell.bsky.social · 26d

How we talk about outer space shapes the futures we imagine and build. Indigenous perspectives offer a better way forward. Out today: collaborative piece by myself and William Grant, promoted by the revival in rhetoric of space as the “manifest destiny” of the US. theconversation.com/for-too-long...

For too long, colonial language has dominated space exploration. There is a better way

How we talk about outer space shapes the futures we imagine and build. Indigenous perspectives offer a better way forward.

theconversation.com

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ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) @anuregnet.bsky.social · 26d

📚 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 School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) @anuregnet.bsky.social · 28d

Nick Bainton, Nicholas Drake and members from the Building a First Nations Research Agenda to Support the Centre for Future Materials project team travelled to Pilbara to spend time with their research partners from the Ngarluma Yindjibarndi Foundation Ltd (NYFL): regnet.anu.edu.au/news/strengt...

ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) @anuregnet.bsky.social · 28d

Week 2 of the Future Leaders Program began with Christian Downie talking about climate obstruction, and Nick Bainton sharing his experiences and insights on the challenges of the energy transition. At the end of the day, the Fellows took the classroom outside to share reflections on their learnings.

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ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) @anuregnet.bsky.social · 28d

Students in REGN8012 Special Topics in Regulating Innovation in Uncertain Times have been exploring how innovation can be governed in uncertain times. Offered in person & online, this course is part of our broader postgraduate offerings in #regulation and #governance. Learn more ▶️ lnkd.in/g-Teq6mT

ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) @anuregnet.bsky.social · 28d

We’re delighted to share the online launch of a new special issue, Memory Politics of Colonial Heritage in Asia and the Pacific: Conflict, Remembrance, and Peacebuilding by the Centre for Heritage & Museum Studies, co-edited by Yujie Zhu and Lia Kent. Learn more: lnkd.in/geSsbTEg

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Art Cotterell @artcotterell.bsky.social · Sep 5

Good to be interviewed about plans to setup nuclear power reactors on the Moon by the US and China and Russia, and why we need int’l cooperation rather than launching global rivalries and inequalities off-Earth: www.news.com.au/technology/s... @anuregnet.bsky.social @acsg.bsky.social

www.news.com.au

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ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) @anuregnet.bsky.social · Sep 3

Join Brad Clarke as he discusses the pervasive use of chemicals in modern society and research efforts to combat the urgent health threat posed by 21st-century synthetic chemicals. Learn more here: regnet.anu.edu.au/event/chemic...

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Mutiara Indriani @mutiara-indriani.bsky.social · Aug 27

www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/putt...

With Suerie Moon, we argue that developing #ASEAN wide measures to support the #PandemicAgreement wouldn’t duplicate global efforts but would translate them into regional action, a crucial governance step long missing. @thinkglobalhealth.org

Putting the Pandemic Agreement Into Practice: A Case for ASEAN | Think Global Health

The Southeast Asian bloc is positioned to implement the pandemic treaty’s provisions before they come into legal force

www.thinkglobalhealth.org

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