theconversation.com/change-or-di... me, Zareh Ghazarian and @matteobonotti.bsky.social on the liberal party. We're edited a new two volume book on party and we apply some of the findings to the party's present circumstances

Change or die: how the Liberal Party’s long resistance to reform has left it fighting for life

The Liberals never gave members the same scope to be involved and influence policy as Labor did. Now, they are paying the price for it.

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Somewhere a university academic is being told to "do more with less" by someone whose job title didn't exist two reorgs ago.

NEW - Thinly Veiled: The Use of Femonationalist Speech in European Parliaments - https://cup.org/4fPucuL - @jmfernandes86.bsky.social, Bonnie M. Meguid & @anacweeks.bsky.social #OpenAccess

New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: 34% of non-US universities require all three elements of Wahlke elements of a political science curriculum vs just 18% in the US. Richard Frank’s cross-national study of 218 programs across 5 democracies reveals what drives curriculum design. doi.org/10.1080/1036...

👨‍👩‍👧 Does parenthood make politicians more future-oriented? 🏛️ @chanret.bsky.social and @profsarahchilds.bsky.social compare UK House of Commons MPs (1945–2023) language use: 👨‍👧 Fathers speak more about the future↗️ 👩‍👦 mothers less ↘️ 🧷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨New paper out in JEPP @jeppjournal.bsky.social 🎉 Women are underrepresented in local politics, and the problem isn't only their election but retention. In a survey experiment with 500+ English councillors, we find that family-friendly council policies increase women's static ambition. 🧵

When we say Australian universities have some governance issues, maybe we need to be a bit more specific, as in, "the Director of Governance at the University of Wollongong resigned one day before corruption hearings opened" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

ICAC told favoured candidates got questions before uni's job interviews

A University of Wollongong governance manager has admitted that recruitment processes that led to her appointment were not fair or transparent.

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Universities target individuals in redundancy processes. We've all seen it. They see some people as too difficult, too female, too diverse, too disabled, too outspoken, too union... Proud of @nteunion.bsky.social. Shame on #MacquarieUni. Solidarity Jo & Jumana! ✊ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

'Punched in the guts': Sacked academics take uni to Fair Work Commission

Two senior academics from Macquarie University allege they were targeted for redundancy because of their union activity.

abc.net.au

Time to go back with another 30+ hour trip. Thanks to @ecprgender.bsky.social for the conference and for keeping me always updated on Australian time (far right clock)

I did not know this! www.sbs.com.au/news/the-fee...

Did you know there were 12 Africans on the First Fleet?

There's been a long history of African settlement in Australia dating as far back as the First Fleet. It's something the Axam family discovered they were apart of, they are descendants of two former A...

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Jonathan Green@greenj.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The first fleet had 60 nationalities and ethnic backgrounds among convicts, crew, and marines. 15 people of African descent. Multicultural Australia.

Hello Newcastle #ecpg

In this blog we argue that blanket social media bans (like in Australia) conflate restricted access with safer access, and frame young people as vulnerable objects for protecting - rather than as rights-bearing participants in digital society @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP)@techpolicy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

With the UK's Government moving ever closer towards banning social media content for under 16s, @maia-aa.bsky.social & @ariadnevromen.bsky.social share their thoughts on "Why an under 16s social media ban won’t improve online safety" in the TIP Blog. 👇 technologypolicy.substack.com/p/why-an-und...

It‘s a damning indictment not only of ANU but the whole culture of corporate university governance. We’re told we need a board full of bankers, managers, politicians and finance people because universities are too large and complex for faculty and staff governance, but look at how that ended here.

Massive governance failure at the ANU where the executive made up a financial crisis to justify redundancies. We were put through hell for nothing

NTEU ACT@nteuact.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The ANAO report on #ANU is out. Careers were destroyed, livelihoods lost, lives wrecked and people damaged - for what? @nteunion.bsky.social members stood up for the ANU and won. Join at www.nteu.au/join. ✊️

The ANAO report on #ANU is out. Careers were destroyed, livelihoods lost, lives wrecked and people damaged - for what? @nteunion.bsky.social members stood up for the ANU and won. Join at www.nteu.au/join. ✊️

‼️ New paper with Ian McAllister (ANU) out at @respol.bsky.social. We use @ess-survey.bsky.social data to study over-time changes in the association between education and left-right self-placements.

Research & Politics@respol.bsky.social · 2mo ago

@rdassonneville.bsky.social & McAllister show that education divides voters less by changing opinions than by changing political labels, as immigration increasingly shapes how Europeans understand left and right. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The authors of 'Silenced Voices: How Violence Marginalizes Women and Immigrant Politicians in Policy Debates', @sandrahkansson.bsky.social & @ceciliajosefsson.bsky.social discuss their April 2026 article here - https://cup.org/4nMUoZs #OpenAccess

Fear silences women politicians in public debate

In the study, the researchers drew on six surveys sent out between 2012 and 2022. They analysed a total of 43,000 responses from Swedish politicians at both national and local level. The researchers w...

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The US has private health care. Australia has private schools

Rod Campbell@rodcampbell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Private schools are sending Australians broke! Literally! Private schools file more bankruptcy proceedings than banks, insurance companies and local governments...COMBINED. My post over on @thepointau.bsky.social liveblog. live.thepoint.com.au/2026/05/the-...

Trump 2 has been considerably more stable than Trump’s first admin, but 🚺 account for 4 of 5 cabinet departures, sending strong signals about whose voice belongs in decision-making. This cabinet is about to be as male as George H.W. Bush's! More on 🚺 & executive branch politics: tinyurl.com/yrvc5je7

My article 'Measuring Descriptive Representation' was published this afternoon in Representation. In the paper I propose a new approach based on disproportionality, which makes better use of the data we have and avoids the very common pitfall of category concatenation. doi.org/10.1080/0034...

6 years ago, I started asking a question that political science had largely ignored: how & why do women get involved in PRR parties as grassroots members? Today, my 1st book proposes an answer. Grassroots Women in the Populist Radical Right is now out online with OUP: academic.oup.com/book/62754

Grassroots Women in the Populist Radical Right

Abstract. This book investigates women’s involvement as members of populist radical right (PRR) parties. The latter have long been characterised as ‘men’s

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What is parliamentary speech used for in a Westminster style system? How much are parliamentary skills valued by party leaders when looking for new ministerial talent? These are questions I look at in my paper on speech and ministerial selection, recently published in Legislative Studies Quarterly.

Two new papers out this week from our ARC Discovery project on agenda-setting in the High Court of Australia. A thread. @anucrawfordschool.bsky.social

@leahruppanner.bsky.social’s fantastic new book Drained is out and covered by NPR life kit (including our research on US parents!). Run don’t walk to get her mental load audit & practical advice !! www.npr.org/2026/04/21/n...

Want to lighten your mental load? First, let go of these gender myths

"Men can't see the mess." "Women are better at chores." These myths position women to take on more emotional thinking, says researcher Leah Ruppanner. She shares what works to reclaim your headspace.

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The European Political Science Review (EPSR) has published my solo-authored paper on Affinity Voting in Europe 🤓 In it, I ask: Do voters prefer in-group politicians? Answer: Sometimes, sometimes not. Minorities prefer their in-group less often than majorities do. 🧵 doi.org/10.1017/S175...

ANU governing body must go region.com.au/serious-misc...

'Serious misconduct' allegations: New Genevieve Bell controversy prompts call for ANU Council spill | Region Canberra

Revelations that former ANU vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has been suspended from her role as distinguished professor over allegations of serious…

region.com.au

The Renew ANU job cuts were only stopped because @nteunion.bsky.social members stopped them. Now it's time for #ANU Council members to be held accountable. It's time to put a broom through the appointed members of ANU Council. #cleansweep

NTEU ACT@nteuact.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The draft ANAO report on #ANU apparently vindicates the @nteunion.bsky.social position that the deep and damaging cuts of Renew ANU weren't necessary. Now ANU Council members need to be held accountable for hundreds of careers destroyed and livelihoods ruined. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Just 1 example of the kind of thing unis are getting for their massive spend on consultants. ANU spent $6k on a "non-significant meeting" with a reputation management firm at which apparently no one took a note. That's more than a tutor gets for a semester's work thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

ANU spent $6k on a 'non-significant' meeting. Then why do they pay tutors even less for a semester?

Last year the Australian National University (ANU) was getting some bad press, so they engaged a company called Bastion Reputation to help with the media fallout from restructures and the heavily crit...

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Lessons from ANU for Australia’s university governance crisis

The Australian National University (ANU) has spent the past eighteen months in a state of rolling crisis. The headline issues are now familiar. In October 2024, a large projected deficit was announce...

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