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The closure of Meanjin has triggered outrage across Australia’s literary and academic communities. The solution is straightforward — transfer the journal to new custodians who can ensure its future. More at https://savemeanjin.org

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Save Meanjin@savemeanjin.bsky.social · 10mo ago

"It took more than an hour after the story broke, and was covered by several mastheads, to receive official notice from MUP; a group email confirming Meanjin’s immediate closure." ~Emma Sutherland, Archives Editor at Meanjin in @artshub.bsky.social this weekend. www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...

I was the Archives Editor at Meanjin – its closure is baffling

As Archives Editor, Emma Sutherland had ‘read everything’ in Meanjin's past, but was unprepared for its troubled present.

artshub.com.au

Save Meanjin@savemeanjin.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The silencing continues... The National Press Club of Australia, caving to the Israel lobby, Cancels My Talk on Our Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists open.substack.com/pub/chrished...

The National Press Club of Australia, caving to the Israeli lobby, Cancels My Talk on Our Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists

The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.

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Lucy Hamilton@lucyham.bsky.social · 10mo ago

In 2024, Meanjin published this essay by my father & myself on Australia’s democracy crisis as displayed through the Voice referendum symptoms. Now that this 85yo Aus cultural institution is being destroyed by neolib visigoths at Melbourne Uni, you should have it from behind paywall. #auspol

The Year in Truth-Telling The Voice and Australia's democracy crisis dire state of truth in Australia's civic space crystalised in 2023. We had seen the waning influence of News Corp's impact on our elections and assumed it meant that enough of us were becoming inoculated against the propaganda. The defeat of the notoriously mendacious Coalition government might have signalled a ceasefire, a moment for the 'conservative' parties to rediscover their integrity. We had underestimated, however, the strategising of vested interests. The year also revealed starkly what happens when the world's instant communication platform, X (formerly Twitter), is owned by one malevolent billionaire. All these forces converged in a grim battle over the Voice to Parliament referendum. The overwhelming rejection of Scott Morrison's Coalition government in 2022 had been in large part an indictment of its lack of transparency and integrity. Revelation had followed revelation about the brazen pork-barrelling undertaken with the help of colour-coded spreadsheets kept in a ministerial office. The flood of deception, echoing Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, was such that Bernard Keane assembled a whole book on it.? Solid gold Liberal seats were lost to community independents known as the 'teals' who were focused on climate action and integrity. Anthony Albanese's government was sworn in with…
Mez of Gryffsville@mezofgryffsville.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Making an effort to read the Australian literary mags that I subscribe to (which had included #Meanjin) - rewarded by reading "Extinctions" by @dani-netherclift.bsky.social on @islandmag.bsky.social islandmag.com/read/extinct...

Extinctions – by Dani Netherclift | Australian Literary Arts Magazine | ISLAND

The threat AI poses to writers and the art of writing seems to have arisen swiftly. Who threw open those doors? What is an entry? A door is an aperture to possibility. These are important concerns for...

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Esther Anatolitis@anatolitis.bsky.social · 10mo ago

and not a class hierarchy permanently fixed time; in a democracy, we decide. My next book—out Wednesday—speaks to the need for renewed democracy movements that question privilege and power. Seems quite timely today in light of the prime minister's remarks: estheranatolitis.net/2025/05/28/w...

When Australia Became a Republic: out 1 October 2025

Monash University Press: In the National Interest seriesPublished October 2025 Australia became a republic many years ago—culturally, if not yet constitutionally. We’ve long stopped identifyin…

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Esther Anatolitis@anatolitis.bsky.social · 10mo ago

recognising that tax incentives and disincentives communicate their own ethical and cultural messages as well as financial ones. Who we privilege financially in a democracy says everything about the people we are today, and the Australia we want to become. Who we privilege is a choice that we make,

Esther Anatolitis@anatolitis.bsky.social · 10mo ago

and that work has never seemed more crucial. Now more than ever, it requires all of us—and demands our very best. Last week's Art of Tax Reform Summit (stay with me on this!) was a valuable first: govts are thinking well beyond subsidy, embedding the arts across policy and into treasury operations,

Esther Anatolitis@anatolitis.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Art, tenacity, democracy. The ways we create and experience new work, sustain the courage of our convictions, and make important decisions together: they're all intertwined. I've devoted my career to the ethics of creative and civic practice, working to expand public spaces and champion new voices,

Andy Tseng@andytseng.bsky.social · 11mo ago

No, it doesn’t add up! #UniMelb should and can do better! #Meanjin #MUP #Australia #Publishing #CultureMatters #AcademicSky #ResearchSky

gina rushton@ginarush.bsky.social · 11mo ago

“When people talk about cultural vandalism and the insult to the legacy of Meanjin, I think they mean the decision to close the journal severs a connection to this history, to the possibility of a cultural nationalism that isn’t defined by racism & imperial fealty” www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/08/m...

Patrick Allington@patrickallington.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The report that Melbourne University Publishing will stop publishing the lit mag #Meanjin is bad news for readers, writers, thinkers, dreamers, doers, publishers, and policymakers - and for citizens who have never heard of or read Meanjin. #Auslit #litmags www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing

Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

crikey.com.au

Jane Doe 🐸✊🏽❤️@noticingclimate.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Sherlock, no shit: "But it’s worth reiterating that entrusting a literary journal — especially one such as Meanjin with a long-standing record of political integrity and radicalism, —to the custodianship of an institution like the University of Melbourne was bound not to last."

“No Guernicas, no sacred places”: On the closure of Meanjin - Overland literary journal

Australia’s literary culture depends for its life on its journals. Literary journals are not just clearing houses for pithy snatches of commentary and readable middlebrow fiction — they’re incubators ...

overland.org.au

Jane Doe 🐸✊🏽❤️@noticingclimate.bsky.social · 11mo ago

How many lessons do we need to learn that fossil fuelled universities are killing people, planet + culture? @anatolitis.bsky.social so many great women being caught up in this battlefield. May you go onto greater things without fossil fuels behind them.

Save Meanjin@savemeanjin.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Toby Fitch: “MUP’s gagging of Meanjin‘s editor, their failure to pursue all the various ways a literary journal raises money, their refusal to release the journal’s copyright to new backers who have come forward..." 1/2 honisoit.com/2025/09/seco...

Second oldest Australian literary journal Meanjin to shut down after 85 years of operation - Honi Soit

Meanjin, Australia’s second oldest literary journal, will close down after running for 85 consecutive years.

honisoit.com