Journos finally catching up with & calling a trajectory evident to historians since 2015. Better late than never, I guess. Parents, whatever else they study, encourage your kids to enrol in history units too - while history units still exist. #everythinghasahistory #trumperica

Terrific journalism from @hughriminton. Completely blow's Littleproud's nonsense apart. His claim is out by 97%. Be very interesting to see if he retracts. #auspol

@c_s_wallace As the billboard above the Chelsea highline walk used to say, “the French aristocracy didn’t see it coming either”.

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‘Another backbencher said: “The leadership of the party is in complete disarray. If they had three feet they’d have shot all three. They are frightened of their own shadow…’ Bring on Rayner & Miliband to replace Starmer & Reeves, I say.

‘Mamdani has shown how to get your fight back. It’s very inspiring. Money doesn’t buy everything. All that money went into stopping him and he still won. And you don’t have to like his ideas to be glad of that. I’m very glad of it.’ https://t.co/5z0k4CQibG

‘In the last few years, we have been so bullied by the superrich. There’s a sense that the rich are the ones who have the voice in every debate, whether it’s about academia or the way the nation is run or how we live our lives with the tech revolution.’ https://t.co/5z0k4CQibG

Go past clickbait headline, this is important initiative by Govt to buy back flood-affected properties in NSW northern rivers. Test case for inevitable planned retreat that will have to be rolled out up & down our coast & along our rivers, & bushfire prone edges. At what cost?

The dramatic decline in the proportion of GDP spent on higher education has forced universities to become businesses and the public good they represent has eroded to a serious degree. Another consequence of neoliberal economic theory and policy.

Hence the shameful decline as characterised by several recent authors

@c_s_wallace A national disgrace. Whitlam's headstone must be shaking with his rage at the shameful, counterproductive trashing of his vision of free education. Lift your game, @JasonClareMP, @AlboMP High quality, affordable education for all is THE most valuable investment in Oz's future.

The Albanese Government’s ‘one-off decision to wipe 20% off student debt (is) akin to addressing the housing crisis by paying off 20% of every current mortgage without doing anything to reduce the cost of housing.’ https://t.co/FTpMQTFQA0

‘To put it another way, in the 1980s the federal government contributed around 80% of the sector’s funding, now it is closer to 40%, while the number of students has more than tripled to over 1.6 million.’ https://t.co/FTpMQTFQA0

‘In 1995, the federal government spent 0.9% of GDP on universities, with this dropping a third to 0.6% in 2021 (implying a $6.5 billion reduction).’ https://t.co/FTpMQTFQA0

Trump ‘spent hours with Virginia Giuffre at my house’, Epstein claimed

Unique sight - a governor-general in the House of Representatives, from which they’re usually excluded. G-G Sam Mostyn at the opening session of the 50th anniversary of The Dismissal, Old Parliament House. #auspol @MoAD_Canberra

Good idea ⁦@ConversationEDU⁩ - well worth reading. Sign of the times at University of Canberra that three out of ten contributors (⁦⁦⁦@michellegrattan⁩, ⁦@fbongiornoanu⁩ & me) are #UniCBR academics. #auspol #thedismissal

‘…the bigger, existential question is how do you create an authentic local cultural moment in an age of algorithmic digital colonisation? Decolonisation was hard a century ago and will be again.’ @JulianneSchultz Sigh… https://t.co/ayINh6Xspb

The evidence-free fear campaigner. Dire political interventions by a top spy official—leading the PM by the nose with ‘suspicions’ and no arrests. Coming just when ASIO is trying to get extreme new security laws legislated. ‘Burgess in the Afternoon’

An ‘empty Joy Division t-shirt’. Ouch! You know how to hurt a guy, Paul…

@c_s_wallace The Labor Caucus is a pressure cooker waiting to burst. New Members were voted in on climate action, gambling reform, Robodebt, NACC, Genocide, etc and they are made silent. Where is Jim Chalmers?