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by Kate Fullagar

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Questions for Mai – ABR essay
Loved writing this more (for me) personal and reflective essay for Australian Book Review. It begins: Zoom in. The most unusual detail in this painting is the left hand, with tattooed dots carefull…
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by Kate Fullagar

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Job Ready Graduates. August 2025. @jasonclaremp.bsky.social #scottmorrisonneverforgive #ALPhardlybetteronhighered
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A good piece about the situation in Australia HE (several years ahead of the rest of the Anglosphere in destroying its sector). Consultants must go - but before that happens, knowledge of what they do must increase among uni communities. Many don't even know consultants are involved in the debacle.
Universities have lost their way, but cost-cutting and consultants are not the answer
Last week in Sydney, we saw a melodrama acted out that could stand in for the state of Australian universities more generally.
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VERY helpful compilation of pieces about Higher Education consultancy NOUS. They repeat the same pattern in Australia, Canada, & now #UKHE: prey on a sector under pressure, promise drastic savings to managers, and then cut staff input + blandify the programme + cut support, and pocket all the money.
Nous Group and UniForum
Resource List ResourceDescriptionExcerptDeb Verhoeven and Ben Eltham. “Nousferatu”: Are corporate consultants extracting the lifeblood from universities?Analysis of the ‘vampiric’ tende…
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by Kate Fullagar — Reposted by: Kate Fullagar

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Enjoyed this (now rather old) podcast I did with Richard Whatmore on his book, The End of Enlightenment. We discuss eighteenth-century Europe, Trumpian USA, and Australia's Voice referendum. katefullagar.com/2025/08/27/p...
Podcast on Enlightenment
Loved doing this podcast with Richard Whatmore for the ANU’s new Urgent History series. It was based mostly on Richard’s last book, The End of Enlightenment (2023), which I reviewed in …
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by Kate Fullagar

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Why is Aussie media so bad, shallow, and right wing? archive.is/pNQrm afr. www.afr.com/policy/healt...
Long-term vision for universities hung up on short-term politics
Jason Clare’s blueprint calls into question the raison d’être of universities and whether they should exist merely to fill the pipeline of human capital for industry.
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by Kate Fullagar

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@historymatterssyd.bsky.social and I are delighted to see the UNSETTLING PORTRAITS podcast get Highly Commended in these Digital History Awards! www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/nsw-h... (link to the podcast in this linked page)
our judges' comments were: A bold and intellectually rich contribution to historical storytelling, this series tackles the inherent challenge of discussing visual sources in an audio format with ingenuity and sensitivity, vividly evoking colonial portraits for listeners without relying on visuals. By combining expert narration with scholarly and Indigenous voices, the series decodes artworks that span continents and centuries, situating Australian examples within the global processes of empire and colonialism. The series exemplifies original, decolonising historical work, challenging Eurocentric readings and expanding historical consciousness through cross-cultural and transnational perspectives. Particularly striking are the discussions with Indigenous scholars, which reframe the meaning and significance of colonial images and, importantly, ask what use such images are in the present day. The series’ analytical depth, emotional resonance, and imaginative use of sound make it a standout example of how non-print media can powerfully reframe public understanding of the past.
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by Kate Fullagar

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Fascinating story. @newrepublic.com
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Aug 2
“The NYPL, the MIT computing school, and Yale’s performing arts ctr all bear the name of Stephen Schwarzman, co-founder of Blackstone. The idea that these men are facilitating free-market natural section has contributed to a lack of meaningful regulation—though the donations… certainly don’t hurt.”
Inside the Private Equity Scam—and the Livelihoods It Has Destroyed
Financiers have bamboozled the public for years about their expertise in “fixing” companies. Yet they often—and sometimes deliberately—run them into the ground.
newrepublic.com
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“The NYPL, the MIT computing school, and Yale’s performing arts ctr all bear the name of Stephen Schwarzman, co-founder of Blackstone. The idea that these men are facilitating free-market natural section has contributed to a lack of meaningful regulation—though the donations… certainly don’t hurt.”
Inside the Private Equity Scam—and the Livelihoods It Has Destroyed
Financiers have bamboozled the public for years about their expertise in “fixing” companies. Yet they often—and sometimes deliberately—run them into the ground.
newrepublic.com
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by Kate Fullagar — Reposted by: Kate Fullagar

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Shorten reeeeeally grasping for straws here. “Can’t wave a wand.” My man, they’ve been in power for over three YEARS. They just spent 20b on debt relief. The cost of scrapping JRG (they say here) is 1b They have lost the messaging here @australianlabor.bsky.social archive.is/rxSze
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by Kate Fullagar — Reposted by: Kate Fullagar

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Very cool. Though much of this research undertaken by @austhistassoc.bsky.social Help take action by addressing our petition: :) www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...
Repeal Job-Ready Graduates Policy Now: Restoring Equity in Higher Education - Online petition
We sign this petition in solidarity with those who signed the Open Letter to the Prime Minister on 28 July 2025 (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/28/open-letter-to-australian-govern...
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by Kate Fullagar

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@austhistassoc.bsky.social taking a lead here. Pls sign this petition and share it around:) www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...
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Canada has long been committed to a two-state solution — an independent, viable, and sovereign Palestinian state living side by side with the State of Israel in peace and security.
 
My statement on Canada’s recognition of a Palestinian state:
Statement by Prime Minister Carney on Canada’s recognition of a Palestinian state.
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by Kate Fullagar

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More media on this. Now me on ABC Lismore radio at the 45 minute mark: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... See also our list of media growing here on the petition: www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...
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The government's proposed HELP repayment system puts more female debtors at risk of a lifetime of debt. andrewnorton.id.au/2025/07/29/t...
The new HELP repayment system and lifetimes of student debt
The prime minister says that a degree should not come with a lifetime of debt. For that goal, the government’s HELP legislation introduced last week is contradictory. It will cut all debt owe…
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by Kate Fullagar

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Now with a signatory Peter Tesch (former ambassador to Germany, Russia, and former Dep Sec Defence) on ABC radio at 35 minute mark, explaining and demonstrating the value of his BA: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Kate Fullagar @kfullagar.bsky.social · Jul 28
The @austhistassoc.bsky.social is proud to have initiated this open letter asking for the repeal of the egregious JRG punishment of humanities and social sciences in Australia. Read about the 100 signatories below, and please sign in solidarity yourself: www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...
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by Kate Fullagar

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Well, and the millions who voted for them. And the many more millions who appeased them. And the even more millions who decided that it was better to adore a US that never existed than get real about the suffering it inflicted on itself.
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by Kate Fullagar

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‘If Labor won’t act to defend equity in education, what is the point of them – I mean, what do they really stand for?’ Tim Winton in @australia.theguardian.com today. Good question @australianlabor.bsky.social
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Kate Fullagar @kfullagar.bsky.social · Jul 28
The @austhistassoc.bsky.social is proud to have initiated this open letter asking for the repeal of the egregious JRG punishment of humanities and social sciences in Australia. Read about the 100 signatories below, and please sign in solidarity yourself: www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...
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by Kate Fullagar — Reposted by: Kate Fullagar

kfullagar.bsky.social
The @austhistassoc.bsky.social is proud to have initiated this open letter asking for the repeal of the egregious JRG punishment of humanities and social sciences in Australia. Read about the 100 signatories below, and please sign in solidarity yourself: www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...
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by Kate Fullagar

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"I can guarantee you no side of politics will justify a quarter of a billion dollars a year on someone’s Cybernetic futures interdisciplinary vanity project, no matter how well meaning they are." @ouranu.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/Anu/commen...
From the Anu community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the Anu community
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"Professor Parry has defended the Change Proposals by stating that the ADB could easily have been cut altogether. She appears to regard the ADB as an academic unit within the gift of the dean rather than as a collaborative national institution" inside.org.au/the-jewel-in...
The jewel in the crown of the ANU • Inside Story
Celebrated by previous vice-chancellors, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and its fellow national project, the Australian National Dictionary, are threatened by university cuts
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by Kate Fullagar

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👆🏼land grants girl.
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by Kate Fullagar

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by Kate Fullagar

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An especially good one today on the humanities in Oz. Every word true. graemeturner.org/2025/07/20/w...
Why do they hate us? That’s the question academics in the humanities are asking. - Graeme Turner
This is the question I was asked last week. Why are government, the media, even university administrations, so carelessly participating in the gradual demolition of one of the foundation stones of our...
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by Kate Fullagar

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Excellent from @chriswallace.bsky.social on the decline of history in Australia. Late Night Live www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
The decline of history teaching threatens our future leaders - ABC listen
History Professor Chris Wallace is worried about the decline in both enrolments in, and the offering of, history and other humanities subjects at Australian universities, which she says has resulted i...
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by Kate Fullagar

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You have all these credentials and you don’t know how MAGA works ?
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by Kate Fullagar

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This. Of Course they will let it go.
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by Kate Fullagar

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None. Of. This. Matters. Scandal will not help you guys. You gotta know this by now. Find a constitutional way.
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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · Jul 15
He didn’t get shot.
He didn’t win the election.
He is on the list.
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Working on fall syllabi? Consider incorporating @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social articles in your courses! Check out Erika Vause's "Teaching Students to Read Secondary Sources with Age of Revolutions" here. ageofrevolutions.com/2022/03/14/t...
Teaching Students to Read Secondary Sources with Age of Revolutions
By Erika Vause In his seminal 1961 essay “The Historian and His Facts,” E.H. Carr compared writing history to preparing fish. Carr argued against seeing history as a “corpus of ascertained facts” l…
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He didn’t get shot.
He didn’t win the election.
He is on the list.
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