Sabrina Balfour
@sbalfour.bsky.social
Bipedal homo sapien on Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar land
But using a nation platform to humiliate such an operation is bullying. I guess a bit of manufactured outrage works well as click bait.
Censorship of frontier conflict is not from volunteers or small outfits. The state institutions publishing nothing online or otherwise seems blatant censorship IMO
Censorship of frontier conflict is not from volunteers or small outfits. The state institutions publishing nothing online or otherwise seems blatant censorship IMO
August 6, 2025 at 4:27 AM
But using a nation platform to humiliate such an operation is bullying. I guess a bit of manufactured outrage works well as click bait.
Censorship of frontier conflict is not from volunteers or small outfits. The state institutions publishing nothing online or otherwise seems blatant censorship IMO
Censorship of frontier conflict is not from volunteers or small outfits. The state institutions publishing nothing online or otherwise seems blatant censorship IMO
So if it’s impossible how is it “censorship”, the next sentence admits it’s cost prohibitive btw…An 80 yo,not for profit business, publishing niche books for local libraries and researchers not bookshops. It’s not UWA Press or Fremantle Arts. Poor editorial decisions are not censorship.
August 6, 2025 at 4:21 AM
So if it’s impossible how is it “censorship”, the next sentence admits it’s cost prohibitive btw…An 80 yo,not for profit business, publishing niche books for local libraries and researchers not bookshops. It’s not UWA Press or Fremantle Arts. Poor editorial decisions are not censorship.
Who is pretending it’s impossible? Cost prohibitive, yes.
Yes it is a form of censorship and cultural institutions steering away from controversial topics is also. Difference being that’s the role of an institutions publication program but not necessarily a micro not for profit publisher
Yes it is a form of censorship and cultural institutions steering away from controversial topics is also. Difference being that’s the role of an institutions publication program but not necessarily a micro not for profit publisher
August 4, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Who is pretending it’s impossible? Cost prohibitive, yes.
Yes it is a form of censorship and cultural institutions steering away from controversial topics is also. Difference being that’s the role of an institutions publication program but not necessarily a micro not for profit publisher
Yes it is a form of censorship and cultural institutions steering away from controversial topics is also. Difference being that’s the role of an institutions publication program but not necessarily a micro not for profit publisher
All cultural institutions have had budgets for digitalisation since late 90s (not enough) so choices are made, those choices are a form of censorship.
SLWA chooses to publish this online. Don MacCleod? Pilbara strike only thing close slwa.wa.gov.au/stories/wa-h...
SLWA chooses to publish this online. Don MacCleod? Pilbara strike only thing close slwa.wa.gov.au/stories/wa-h...
WA history | State Library of Western Australia
slwa.wa.gov.au
August 4, 2025 at 6:57 AM
All cultural institutions have had budgets for digitalisation since late 90s (not enough) so choices are made, those choices are a form of censorship.
SLWA chooses to publish this online. Don MacCleod? Pilbara strike only thing close slwa.wa.gov.au/stories/wa-h...
SLWA chooses to publish this online. Don MacCleod? Pilbara strike only thing close slwa.wa.gov.au/stories/wa-h...
It’s copyright free, go ahead and reproduce it yourself
August 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM
It’s copyright free, go ahead and reproduce it yourself
highlights how much you have missed the real censorship story.
Why didn’t the state library publish it online like so many other artefacts? Again a small unprofitable press making a poor decision is not censorship
Why didn’t the state library publish it online like so many other artefacts? Again a small unprofitable press making a poor decision is not censorship
August 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
highlights how much you have missed the real censorship story.
Why didn’t the state library publish it online like so many other artefacts? Again a small unprofitable press making a poor decision is not censorship
Why didn’t the state library publish it online like so many other artefacts? Again a small unprofitable press making a poor decision is not censorship
No I have no relationship at all but have been involved in cultural institutions for decades. I know Hisperians whole reason for its existence is because the museums and libraries were not providing access to their holdings.
Not only an unnecessary swipe to the main information, it’s triviality
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Not only an unnecessary swipe to the main information, it’s triviality
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August 4, 2025 at 2:13 AM
No I have no relationship at all but have been involved in cultural institutions for decades. I know Hisperians whole reason for its existence is because the museums and libraries were not providing access to their holdings.
Not only an unnecessary swipe to the main information, it’s triviality
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Not only an unnecessary swipe to the main information, it’s triviality
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Were there financial restraints? Do your article based on others research but don’t malign a small NFP. Isn’t the real censorship question about why the state library, museum or media didn’t bother to reproduce the diary and code online or in print over the last decades? Who is getting a free pass?
August 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Were there financial restraints? Do your article based on others research but don’t malign a small NFP. Isn’t the real censorship question about why the state library, museum or media didn’t bother to reproduce the diary and code online or in print over the last decades? Who is getting a free pass?
Totally unnecessary punching down. Story is fine better include more @kateauty.bsky.social or Owen knowledge than your judgment. God help us when the media becomes an arbiter of censorship. Petty at best and considering all the other censorship that operates through official channels it’s laughable
August 4, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Totally unnecessary punching down. Story is fine better include more @kateauty.bsky.social or Owen knowledge than your judgment. God help us when the media becomes an arbiter of censorship. Petty at best and considering all the other censorship that operates through official channels it’s laughable
There is a story of censorship of history in WA but it’s not Hisperian Press. It is the media, government, government inquiries, police policies, institutions and commercial interests. It’s multifaceted and requires effort to unpack.
August 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
There is a story of censorship of history in WA but it’s not Hisperian Press. It is the media, government, government inquiries, police policies, institutions and commercial interests. It’s multifaceted and requires effort to unpack.
It also wastes time and energy by ignoring real censorship which operated through Royal Commissions (like Canning route RC transcripts reproduced by Hisperian) or Forrest River Massacre court and Inquiries, Ugle Inquiry set up by the government of the day…knock yourself out covering real censorship
August 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It also wastes time and energy by ignoring real censorship which operated through Royal Commissions (like Canning route RC transcripts reproduced by Hisperian) or Forrest River Massacre court and Inquiries, Ugle Inquiry set up by the government of the day…knock yourself out covering real censorship
Any chance of touching on Mary Kostakidis case?
August 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Any chance of touching on Mary Kostakidis case?
You’re not a qualified historian? Yeah sure, a small NFP press run out of backyard is ‘censoring history’ not government or institutions? This is laughable except it wastes time of the trivial rather than a big picture and the violence which actually occurred documented and ignored by today’s media
August 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
You’re not a qualified historian? Yeah sure, a small NFP press run out of backyard is ‘censoring history’ not government or institutions? This is laughable except it wastes time of the trivial rather than a big picture and the violence which actually occurred documented and ignored by today’s media
A gripe against one book is a disproportionate response and unbalanced. A response which the Guardian only occasionally touches upon. There are lots of source material for frontier violence, perhaps report on those publications rather than slagging of a NFP press ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks/7230/
Dark deeds in a sunny land: or Blacks and whites in North-West Australia
The frontier of European settlement in the colony of Western Australia a hundred years ago stretched way beyond the south-western corner to the far north, and pastoralists were pushing steadily inland...
ro.ecu.edu.au
August 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
A gripe against one book is a disproportionate response and unbalanced. A response which the Guardian only occasionally touches upon. There are lots of source material for frontier violence, perhaps report on those publications rather than slagging of a NFP press ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks/7230/
Punching down on Hisperian Press. Seriously? Not WA Museum or the old history departments at Universities over here, government funding policies … Hisperian Press does a fantastic job at reproducing original source material which is invaluable to historians.
Perhaps speak to Professors at UWA etc
Perhaps speak to Professors at UWA etc
August 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Punching down on Hisperian Press. Seriously? Not WA Museum or the old history departments at Universities over here, government funding policies … Hisperian Press does a fantastic job at reproducing original source material which is invaluable to historians.
Perhaps speak to Professors at UWA etc
Perhaps speak to Professors at UWA etc
It’s a different legal system. Not everything revolves around the USA.
August 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
It’s a different legal system. Not everything revolves around the USA.
“Along with the horror at what’s happening in Gaza, there was also a palpable sense of anger towards Minns and, to a lesser extent, the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, over Australia’s fence-sitting.”
Not fence sitting, his government is supplying military material, supporting US policy
Not fence sitting, his government is supplying military material, supporting US policy
August 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
“Along with the horror at what’s happening in Gaza, there was also a palpable sense of anger towards Minns and, to a lesser extent, the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, over Australia’s fence-sitting.”
Not fence sitting, his government is supplying military material, supporting US policy
Not fence sitting, his government is supplying military material, supporting US policy
There are more suppositories of wisdom that could be included in his eulogy
August 3, 2025 at 9:21 AM
There are more suppositories of wisdom that could be included in his eulogy
Obituary should add George Pell was his moral compass, and in his spare time wrote a character reference for convicted paedophile priest and unsuccessfully shirt fronted Putin.
August 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Obituary should add George Pell was his moral compass, and in his spare time wrote a character reference for convicted paedophile priest and unsuccessfully shirt fronted Putin.