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AusPSA @auspsa.bsky.social · 16d

🌿 Reminder: APSA 2025 Prizes Open

🏆 Pete Hay Prizes in Environmental Politics
• 🎤 Conf. Presentation (ECRs)
• 📄 Publication (all career stages)
⏰ 25 Oct 2025

🏆 ANZSOG Siobhan O’Sullivan Prize
• 📄 Best policy studies article (postgrad/ECR)
⏰ 10 Oct 2025
🔗 auspsa.org.au/2025-apsa-co...
#APSA2025

APSA Prizes and Awards 2025 - Australian Political Studies Association

In recognition of the contributions made to all areas of political science, APSA will award the below prizes in 2025. These prizes cover a wide spectrum of achievement, from the PhD Thesis Prize award...

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Dr Nathan Fioritti @nathanfioritti.bsky.social · 21d

With today's 2035 emissions reduction target announcement, it is a good time to remind everyone that @climatecouncil.org.au has long argued that, in order for Australia to act in line with the Paris Agreement, we should be aiming for net zero by 2035. www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/wh...

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 21d

With a 2035 emissions reduction target of 62-70%, I think we can say Ketan called it.👇

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21d

Australia's going to release its 2035 target today....here's my prediction. Going off remarks, rumours and murmurings it might end up with a much lower actual target (in the low 60s), with an even more egregious aesthetic 'range' to make it sound more ambitious

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23d

PREDICTION

- Australia's 2035 target will be 65% by 2035

- It'll be presented with a range, "65% - 68%", to make it sound higher, despite that still being a 65% target

- the gov't won't exclude dodgy, constantly revised land use data

- no exit plans for coal and gas export

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Dr Nathan Fioritti @nathanfioritti.bsky.social · Aug 24

Massive Free Palestine rally in Naarm today - the front was already at Flinders Street before the union contingent had even left State Library. Proud to join and march with NTEU comrades for an end to the two-way arms trade, genocide, ethnic cleansing and occupation. ✊🇵🇸

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

Thanks Tim - it was somewhat frustrating seeing how overblown this all was, so I figured I'd offer some grounded analysis

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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.

theconversation.com

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Dr Nathan Fioritti @nathanfioritti.bsky.social · Jul 20

Some particular highlights of #IPSA2025 were chairing an excellent panel on climate change and the state, hearing Professor Donatella della Porta's plenary address on academic freedom, and finding a potential publisher for a book based on my PhD thesis - stay tuned for more on that!

Dr Nathan Fioritti @nathanfioritti.bsky.social · Jul 20

It was an incredible privilege to join over 3,300 peers last week at the largest ever International Political Science Association (IPSA) World Congress in Seoul.

Thanks to all who helped organise the conference, shared their work and came to hear about and offer feedback on my own.

IPSA @ipsa.org · Jul 12

Welcome to Seoul, #IPSA2025 participants! 🎉
We’re thrilled to gather again following our last World Congress in Buenos Aires. Let’s make #IPSA2025 another historic event for IPSA!

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · Jul 1

One hundred recommendations are handed down as Australia's first truth-telling inquiry finds crimes against humanity and genocide were committed against Aboriginal people in Victoria.

Breaking: Truth-telling inquiry recommends redress for Aboriginal Victorians

One hundred recommendations are handed down as Australia's first truth-telling inquiry finds crimes against humanity and genocide were committed against Aboriginal people in Victoria.

www.abc.net.au

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Dr Nathan Fioritti @nathanfioritti.bsky.social · Jun 18

The Convention was part of the Victorian Schools Parliamentary Program - run by National Curriculum Services on behalf of the Victorian Department of Education - and included students from Saint Ignatius as well as Clonard College, Kardinia International College, and St Joseph's College.

Dr Nathan Fioritti @nathanfioritti.bsky.social · Jun 18

I found students were really engaged in both the topic and the parliamentary procedures they adopted as part of the debate, and I hope they came away from this event with a stronger grasp of the Australian Constitution and political system as a whole.

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Dr Nathan Fioritti @nathanfioritti.bsky.social · Jun 18

To the frustration of some, I did not offer a straight answer, but rather, focused on key considerations students should account for when approaching this question.

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Dr Nathan Fioritti @nathanfioritti.bsky.social · Jun 18

It was my great pleasure to join and deliver a keynote address to students at Saint Ignatius College last week as part of a Local Parliamentary Convention on the Australian Constitution and whether it is fit for purpose or obsolete. Thank you to all involved for having me.

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Dr Nathan Fioritti @nathanfioritti.bsky.social · Jun 7

Thanks to our hosts at @deldemucan.bsky.social at the University of Canberra, and the POP Exec for organising.

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Dr Nathan Fioritti @nathanfioritti.bsky.social · Jun 7

It was a pleasure to join, reconnect with and meet new members of the @apsa-pop.bsky.social community this week and present papers on political systems and extreme polarisation (with Narelle Miragliotta) and the Greensland phenomenon in Brisbane (with @phoebehayman.bsky.social and Stewart Jackson).

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · May 15

Here's me. 'The Prime Minister is lying to your face about selling weapons for Israel’s genocide'

This article also features not one, but two excellent new cartoons from @fionakatauskas.bsky.social

The Prime Minister is lying to your face about selling weapons for Israel’s genocide - The Shot

The hairs Albanese is splitting are on the heads of murdered Palestinians. Australia is contributing to Israel's genocide of Palestine.

theshot.net.au

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · May 15

Larissa Waters will be tasked with rebuilding the Greens in the lower house after its near election wipe out and managing the sole balance of power in the Senate

Fresh start for the Greens, with new leader Larissa Waters

theconversation.com

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Dr Nathan Fioritti @nathanfioritti.bsky.social · May 15

On the same day Larissa Waters - formerly a lawyer with the Environmental Defenders Office - was appointed leader of the Greens, the Crisafulli Government, after pledging pre-election that they'd continue to fund the EDO, has revealed they're cutting it. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Environmental Defenders Office funding completely cut in Queensland

The office provides legal aid to those dealing with environmental and planning disputes and has received about $500,000 per year over the past five years from the Queensland government.

www.abc.net.au

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Dr Nathan Fioritti @nathanfioritti.bsky.social · May 15

Larissa Waters is the Greens' new leader. Besides having an apt surname for an ecological party leader, what do we know about her? And what might we expect from her leadership of Australia's largest minor party?

New piece from me in @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/fresh-start-...

Fresh start for the Greens, with new leader Larissa Waters

Larissa Waters will be tasked with rebuilding the Greens in the lower house after its near election wipe out and managing the sole balance of power in the Senate

theconversation.com

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Dr Nathan Fioritti @nathanfioritti.bsky.social · May 2

It's election day in Australia and I've provided some commentary to @anadoluajansicom.bsky.social on key issues this election campaign and what we might expect to see later today and over the course of the next parliamentary term. Read the story here: www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/...

Australia election: Cost of living, economy, Trump define ballot

Over 18 million Australians are registered to vote in Saturday’s federal election that pits Prime Minister Albanese’s Labor against the conservative Liberal-National Coalition - Anadolu Ajansı

www.aa.com.tr

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Dr Nathan Fioritti @nathanfioritti.bsky.social · Dec 17

Excellent piece from A/Prof Grant Blashki, noting that heatwaves are Australia’s deadliest natural disaster – surpassing bushfires, floods, etc. As Blashki writes, at the heart of this issue is climate justice, with vulnerable groups disproportionately impacted pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/hea...

Heatwaves and climate change are Australia’s deadliest ‘unnatural’ disaster

With the mercury soaring in much of the country, extreme heat and heatwaves are fast becoming Australia’s most urgent climate-driven health emergency, says University of Melbourne expert

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au

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Dr Nathan Fioritti @nathanfioritti.bsky.social · Dec 13

Thank you!

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Dr Nathan Fioritti @nathanfioritti.bsky.social · Dec 13

I recognise that this is a really privileged position to be in, and have every intention of using it to drive social change and uplift others. Looking forward to whatever comes next!

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Dr Nathan Fioritti @nathanfioritti.bsky.social · Dec 13

Graduation day today! Got to don the floppy cap and sit alongside the big wigs. Thank you to all who supported me through my PhD - you know who you are!

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Cam Walker @camwalker.bsky.social · Dec 7

This report was tabled with little coverage. Its a routine update on the unfolding climate catastrophe, with some important messages:

-the climate is already changing
-heatwaves & droughts are going to have huge impacts on VIC
-what we do now matters

www.climatechange.vic.gov.au/victorias-ch...

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