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Anna Kent

@annakent.bsky.social
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Historian. International education, international development, scholarships.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Erin Cook @erincook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today is a very important date in Indonesian history. In a few hours, 61 years ago, the beginning of the anti-communist purges would begin with the slaying of five generals. Australia had a role, though much smaller than the larger powers: www.insideindonesia.org/archive/arti...
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Accomplice to atrocity?
A quarterly magazine on the peoples of Indonesia - cultures, politics, economy and environment
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Now, after a near total population collapse, bogong moths are delighting scientists with sudden spring abundance www.theage.com.au/environment/...
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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 26/09/2026
Whatever kind of football you care about, this is just fabulous, impassioned writing. Hand that person a Walkley already.
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In the greatest and cruellest of grand finals, only the Lions believed
The AFL grand final has never felt so raw as in the five ballistic minutes that elevated the Brisbane Lions to legends and delivered Fremantle the most crushing defeat imaginable. 
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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You know one way of stopping AI agents from accessing Australian government data would be by making them have MyGov accounts.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is a fantastic brief essay in how news media & pundits turn upside down who is who is being punished for speaking freely--in the case of Kraft, Macklemore, & Sheeran--when rich elites want things to go one way, but unruly peasant masses refuse to go along. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions
In much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, the reality of the incident is turned on its head, as...
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Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This symposium is part of our ARC DP project on empires in the Pacific. Looking forward to receiving abstracts! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
Only halfway through New York Climate week - here's a little cheatsheet for the key AI greenwashing tropes you're going to hear. Please go check our latest investigation into NVIDIA's unjustified climate claims here: ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...
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Trjn @trjn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Let’s not indulge their fantasy. The AI models they use are not autonomous. They’re software that does as instructed. Someone coded it and gave it direction.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026
Haven't seen a better AI explainer than this one (even if it somewhat overstates the AI safety stuff) www.instagram.com/reel/Ddlt1kR...
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Women's Australian Rules Football Radio @warfradio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We're going to attempt it. Eight out of nine #AFLW matches on WARFRadio.com, as well as AFL.com.au and the AFL Live app, this long weekend. Fingers crossed the technology holds steady for us.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Broadcast media and higher education are soft power -- important enough, you would think, for a government of a small country trying to punch above its weight internationally -- but they can also be EXPORTS, something that no modern government seems to understand?!
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is a great insight from a young woman in Canberra on housing and time and multiculturalism www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
The woman who feels priced out of spare time

Rosie* is in her 30s and lives in Canberra. She captured the point vividly.

"Housing gets covered as deposits, rates, supply. Living it, the real cost is time. You work the hours the housing demands, in the suburb the housing pushed you to, and what gets sacrificed is the ability to sit down with the people around you.

"Multiculturalism worked in this country when people had time to spend with people unlike themselves. Not policy time — ordinary time. Backyards, front steps, sport, the shops, someone's kitchen. That's how a stranger stops being a category and becomes a neighbour.

"We have spent 30 years pricing that time out of people's lives and now we're surprised that cohesion is fraying and asking what went wrong with our values.

"When people are exhausted and stretched and never in the same room, difference stops being interesting and starts being threatening. That's not a failure of tolerance. It's a failure of time. That's what I'd want people in power to understand."
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ask yourself why a CEO who can call the president on the phone needs to write a pleading open letter like he is a daycare provider who needs money for markers?
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Big Tech is using panic to suck the air out of the room just as people are demanding transparency and accountability for the sector’s egregious, monopolistic overreach into every facet of our lives. My latest column with bonus track open.spotify.com/track/403oiK...
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Thieves in the Temple
Prince · Music from Graffiti Bridge · Song · 1990
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 18/09/2026
you're worried about an AI paperclip maximising and killing humans to get its way and expand the factory? well, the *human* operators of AI have already decided that killing a set of humans, that they don't think of as deserving rights, is acceptable in order to expand the factory.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
sometimes I like to remember studying political science and reading about about international relations and state behavior analyzed with the Rational Actor Model
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Anna Kent @annakent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As part of a previous security council bid the AusGov expanded the development scholarship program enormously (across geography & in numbers). Not sure they'll take that approach this time given all the other stuff in international ed going on but stranger things have happened.
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Women's Australian Rules Football Radio @warfradio.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This weekend on WARFRadio.com, the AFL Live app and AFL.com.au
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 17/09/2026
And here, children, we can observe the first stages of the "tech bro to think tank founder pipeline"
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Claire Field @clairefield.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Some thoughts on how the changes to international education announced by Minister Burke yesterday will likely impact the sector - including a significant impact in Western Australia because of the high numbers of students from Bhutan: clairefield.com.au/internationa...
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International education changes – Claire Field & Associates
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/09/2026
Australia nicely demonstrates the way far-right parties end up pulling the strings on centrists goblins Centrists see surging support for drooling racists, and then try to mildly mimic their positions and policies. Centrists don't get a surge in poll support though; that all stays with the racists
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Family visas for foreign students targeted in migration crackdown
International students would effectively be banned from bringing family members to Australia under a long-awaited overhaul of the immigration system.
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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Also, let me be very clear here: we do not need to just push back at policy proposals like this that chase ON voters who will always choose the full-throated racists over half-arsed attempts to win them back. We need to reject the premise that migration *should* be lower
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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Higher education is already one of Australia's most important exports, and right now the US is torpedoing its until-now highly lucrative higher ed sector. With global talent now looking elsewhere, we should make ourselves *more* appealing to prospective international students rather than less
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International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) @ieaa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“[Australia's] continuing lack of policy transparency has many education agents walking away from us as a reliable study destination country." - IEAA CEO Hon Phil Honeywood speaking to Times Higher Education. Read more: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/immigra...
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Immigration cuts ‘wipe out Australia’s advantage’
Visa rights canned for dependants of most students and temporary graduates, with transfers to inferior courses also banned
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Erin Cook @erincook.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is really interesting tbh some of the earliest interactions between Australia and decolonised Southeast Asia states was very blunt 'stop telling us you want to be best friends and business partners and then have such dog immigration policy.' a struggle for earlier federal govts!
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Erin Cook @erincook.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I don't really know much about this sort of thing but I do know many brilliant genius Indonesians who wouldn't have come here if their family couldn't join them. Which seems stupid long-term in many ways www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Family visas for foreign students targeted in migration crackdown
International students would effectively be banned from bringing family members to Australia under a long-awaited overhaul of the immigration system.
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Ly Tran @lytran10.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
How would One Nation’s immigration plan affect the labour market and economy? My new article in The Conversation: theconversation.com/how-would-on... #intled #immigration #workforce #internationalstudents #internationaleducation #Australia #labourmarket #universities #workforce
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How would One Nation’s immigration plan affect the labour market and economy?
Reducing the number of people on student and graduate visas may reduce migration numbers, but it could also weaken demand for Australian goods and services.
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Anna Kent @annakent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We knew it was coming but 🤬
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Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) @aadh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We invite applications for a new Communications Manager! This is a supported, 1-year role ideal for an Early Career Researcher, PhD Candidate, or Postdoc who would like to develop their committee, leadership, and communications experience. Details below. Please share widely! #dh #comms #ecr
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Every other headline now is "Huge liar who's financially motivated to lie says"
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The federal Treasury is war-gaming the financial fallout from a surge in global interest rates on government debt, oil prices and inflation amid fears it could drive the Australian and global economies into a recession and force some countries into austerity www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
The last few days is like a DDOS attack from these companies 🙄 I just finished drafting an op-ed and then see another OMG Machine god is going to kill everyone 😱 post Ok walk me through the step by step action this super intelligent chatbot takes to render everyone us extinct?
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Here's a better look at the Basketball Of All Genders I'll have for sale on all of my tour stops. Designed by Mattie Lubchansky. Printed by Radix Media. A dollar from each sticker will go to the Trevor Project to provide counseling and suicide prevention for LGBTQ+ youth!
Basketball of All Genders round sticker featuring a basketball with four hands of various races and genders touching it. One hand is wearing a bracelet. One is wearing a watch. It has my website listed as well.
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Well, here goes. I tried to keep it contained. Ridicule is what we use to fight institutional hostility. Make no mistake, that's what this is. rick-morton.ghost.io/deliver-us-l...
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Deliver Us, Lord, From Ridicule
On Friday, Defence deputy secretary Celia Perkins began her evidence before a senate inquiry into asset sales by the department and Australian military with an embarrassing manoeuvre. 'In closing, I ...
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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 03/06/2026
“Legitimate Concerns”
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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Saxony-Anhalt has amongst Germany's lowest migrant population. (about 9%). As in Australia, success for anti immigrant parties is most likely in areas with already low levels of migration.
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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This is not a 'masculinity crisis', it's a misogyny crisis. This is not a problem with 'masculinity'-- millions of men model positive masculinity every day. This is a problem of male violence. Stop calling it 'masculinity'. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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A ‘masculinity crisis’ is brewing in UK schools, union says
Misogynistic abuse of female staff is increasing, leaving teachers feeling ‘traumatised’ and ‘humiliated’
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Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A quick explainer written today: theconversation.com/even-if-it-d...
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Even if it doesn’t form government, the far-right AfD has shaken Germany’s political establishment to the core
Voters in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt punished the major parties for their handling of the cost-of-living crisis.
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Anna Kent @annakent.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"The world is a particularly confusing place just now. But no one seems more confused about their place in it than Australia." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Everyone but Australia reconsiders relationship with America
No-one inside federal politics seems interested in discussing the large orange elephant in the room and how it is materially changing every other country's views of the world.
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Nationals Leader Matt Canavan blaming the “feminisation of our curriculum” for driving young boys towards the manosphere.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Striking how the nationalist funding networks are so international.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Do not be saying feminism is over or got overturned or women are worse off when it comes to rights than they used to be if you're talking about the bad old days before second wave feminism. Thread below:
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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I'm currently in the middle of PhD research that is showing unequivocally that this is not even close to a thing. Women are still massively underrepresented in the curriculum and almost every teacher I interviewed raised the manosphere's influence on male students as an explicit blocker.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Gil Durán: "We can have billionaires, or we can have democracy. We cannot have both" Excellent article by Gareth Hutchens
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