Senior Lecturer in History
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. Union Thug. ADHD. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Tweets mine. He/him
Every tech startup needs to have a historian on staff who can press a big red button that says ‘NO’ whenever someone propose a new technology that is just scientific racism but with an algorithm
I teach history, and am very clear with my students that I don’t expect them to memorise dates. Because that’s not history, it’s trivia. As historians we want to understand how and why events happen. Let’s expect the same from politicians: less arcane facts, more deep thinking.
The movie Home Alone was released in November 1990, at the start of the US-led Gulf War. It was
#1
at the box office until that wars end, in February 1991. The film’s popularity can in part be explained by its fitting with liberal arguments about America’s failure in Vietnam 1/10
In Tanya Plibersek’s home state of NSW, protesting on a public street can attract a $22000 fine or two years in jail under draconian anti protest laws passed in April this year. Australians have no ‘right to peaceful protest’.
'This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet...This storm is what we call progress.'
Walter Benjamin, 1940
Students must feel safe at university classes.
Families must feel safe in their own neighbourhoods.
People must feel safe to practice their faith in peace.
Lets be clear: this is about creating a two tier system, where critical knowledge is available to those with the appropriate property qualification, and children of the working class are forced into underpaid professions by economic necessity. As a
#firstinfamily
, im gutted.
Congratulations
@AlboMP
& Jodie. Marriage is a fundamental good for society. It promotes mutual dependency and support. And with home ownership first, and superannuation second, you have the foundations of prudence, responsibility & security for life. Congratulations.
What's the third most iconic man made structure in Australia? Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge top two obviously. There's like ten or more you could make an honest case for.
In 1988, a re-enactment of the first fleet was jettisoned from the Bicentenary program as celebrating colonialism was deemed simply too offensive. Very cool that 31 years later we’ve revised that decision.
I'm reminded right now of the fact that, when the racial discrimination act was passed in 1975, the majority of complaints received in the first few years were from British migrants upset at being called poms.
How to be a good landlord
> Fix things
> Don’t evict for no reason
> Understand you profit from a deeply flawed housing structure that makes houses (on stolen land) an asset when they should be a human right and odds are you and yours would be better off with a fairer system too
Is Dark Emu perfect? No. Does Pascoe misread some sources, and discount past work? Yes, as much as any popular historian does. But today’s
@GoodWeekendMag
take down reeks of gatekeeping and confected outrage. Read Tom Griffiths take instead 👇
Victorian greens busy platforming TERFs, while Queensland greens locking on to a disabled public housing resident’s front door to stop his eviction. We are not the same.
Me: sets an early alarm
My body: ‘would you like to wake up every 10 minutes for the hour before said alarm to ensure it’s still on or something?’
Me: ‘...no?’
My body: ‘let’s just do it anyway.’
That open letter attacking the
#SydneyFestival
boycott claims the campaign is an ‘affront to both Palestinians and Israelis who are working to advance peace through compromise’. Here’s a visual representation of the ‘compromises’ already made thus far:
Fraser anning was not elected with 19 votes, he was on the one nation ticket and they got enough votes to fill his quota. Saying that only a handful of people voted for him totally let’s his racist bullshit off the hook and doesn’t help us fight structural white supremacy
My Uni is doing staff photo shoots next week, and has sent out a his and hers style guide to help us poor academics out. What do youse recon I should go with?
First, the set up. Kevin McCallister is accidentally left ‘home alone’ by his negligent parents as they embark on an overseas holiday. It’s interesting that his family’s destination was Paris. A metaphor for The US following France into the quagmire of indo China? Perhaps. 2/10
Today marks 52 years since Joh Bjelke-Peterson took over as premier of Queensland. Queensland’s finest decided to mark the occasion in traditional style: intimidating an elected representative in the dead of night.
For an example of what the CFMEU is costing taxpayers and the public, the wages they have strongarmed for lollipop people, a qualification that takes 1.5 days to obtain, are $49/hr plus allowances.
The award wage is $28/hr.
For comparison, a registered nurse gets paid $34/hr.
Sorry everyone, I'm hearing that a rent freeze won't work without substantial increase in affordable housing and stricter rules forcing landlords to maintain their properties. Sadly, we may end up having to make the world even better :(
On 15-16 February 2003, almost a million Australians demonstrated against the looming second gulf war. I was one of them, a 15 year old student. We were called crazy for saying that saddam’s WMDs were a lie. Well...