Mark Riboldi
@markriboldi.bsky.social
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Lecturer in social impact and social change at UTS. Non-profits, civil society, democracy, etc: https://profiles.uts.edu.au/mark.riboldi AWFC / Tillies. OG Fool. Chaotic Good.
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"For organisations claiming some kind of broad democratic role or impact, there is a responsibility to question whether what we are doing is having the intended impact."

Thanks to The Commons Social Change Library for publishing this shorter, conciser, version of the main hook of my PhD thesis.
Power and Connection - Exploring how Organisations Engage with Communities
The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice.
commonslibrary.org
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🚨 🚨 Some inspiration for those opposing job cuts and the general corporatisation of public universities around Australia - the staff/union led campaign at ANU has resulted in the halting of forced redundancies.

Join your union ✊

www.miragenews.com/union-triump...
Union Triumphs: ANU Halts Forced Redundancies
The Australian National University (ANU) has announced that there will be no forced redundancies.Quotes attributable to NTEU ACT Division Secretary Dr
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markriboldi.bsky.social
Thanks Marija. I mostly good :)
markriboldi.bsky.social
Thankfully not. But yeah, really awful.
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nteunion.bsky.social
Senator @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social: ‘Is ANU being trashed by the Bell and Bishop leadership?’

ACT Division Secretary @lachlanclohesy.bsky.social: ‘Absolutely. We need a new leadership approach or we need a new leadership.’

The Senate Inquiry into university governance continues…
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robertsaunders.bsky.social
The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.

The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.
markriboldi.bsky.social
I had a listen before posting, you did great!
markriboldi.bsky.social
In which I sneak in a gag about an AI-generated Presidential penis.
pandanuspetter.bsky.social
@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). 😱🏠💰🗣️

reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stories/...
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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From a supporter email Climate 200 sent today - a good example of how the organisation exhibits 'party-like' behaviour, as @phoebehayman.bsky.social, @bspiesbutcher.bsky.social and I wrote about @ausjpolsci.bsky.social in 2024: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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emilyrosefoley.bsky.social
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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The corporatisation of universities races for the zenith, with Macquarie University proposing to cut completely sociology, politics, and more.

Sign the petition to support those in line to lose their jobs, and current and future students.

www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...
SAVE SOCIOLOGY AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY
We urge Macquarie University management to reverse this decision and preserve the vital disciplines of Sociology and Politics. Sociology has a key place in the social sciences as the broadest and mos...
www.megaphone.org.au
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Looking at the latest ACNC data on registered charities (including universities) and spotted this ridiculous rate of casualisation at QUT, the ninth biggest employer in the sector.

This is 2023 data reported to the ACNC. Almost twice as many casuals as full-time staff.

@nteunion.bsky.social
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auspsa.bsky.social
APSA is deeply concerned about the proposed cuts to Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University. Our letter to university leadership outlines the discipline’s outstanding research, strong teaching record, and impact.
📄 Read the full letter here:
auspsa.org.au/job-alert/ap....
APSA's letter to Macquarie University - Australian Political Studies Association
APSA Statement on Proposed Cuts at Macquarie UniversityAPSA has expressed deep concern over proposed cuts to Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, including the resting of the ...
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cameronwilson.bsky.social
there's a lot of suggestions for how this prof could do alternate assessment... but p much all of them are significantly more time consuming.

chatgpt is just revealing and exacerbating a problem with our higher education system
andrew.heiss.phd
On the verge of declaring defeat with chatgpt in my asynchronous online dataviz class. Something changed this semester compared to past ones and SO MANY assignments are essentially 100% LLM output.
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Australian Christian Lobby sends a 'Reconciliation Week' supporter email, soliciting donations, and not mentioning Australia's First Nations peoples - i.e. THE PURPOSE OF THE WEEK - at all.

Not surprising but also pretty damn audacious.