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Official journal of the Australian Political Studies Association (@auspsa.bsky.social). Find us at www.tandfonline.com/journals/cajp20

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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: what would Indigenous economic sovereignty require of Australian states? Rachael McDonald compares the US, NZ and Victoria, and finds treaty the foundation for economic self-determination. doi.org/10.1080/1036...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: owners vote centre-right more than mortgage holders, who vote that way more than renters. Ferran Martinez i Coma & Francisco Perales track 25 years of AES data – and the gap is widening. doi.org/10.1080/1036...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: 'failing forward' in the university sector. Greg McCarthy on how the Albanese government's higher education reforms keep colliding with the neoliberal foundations they're built on. doi.org/10.1080/1036...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: Labor's first term on temporary migration went from reform to retreat. Emily Foley argues social democratic impulses can't beat neoliberal ones once migration becomes politically salient. doi.org/10.1080/1036...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: how secure is a postal ballot? Katharina Kretschmer & Lisa Hill observed the 2024 Victorian local elections end to end – receipt, sorting, counting, storage – and find integrity protocols robust. doi.org/10.1080/1036...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: the Greens lost three inner-city seats in 2025 yet their vote held up – because it's growing in the suburbs. Nathan Fioritti & Stewart Jackson ask if its targeting strategy has caught up. doi.org/10.1080/1036...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: does partisanship run on loving your party or hating the other one? In three studies, Michael Dare, Daniel Druckman & Frank Mols find in-party liking drives loyalty – but policy preferences underpin both. doi.org/10.1080/1036...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: 'woke' does more than describe – it works as a master signifier that scrambles the discourses it attaches to. Jim Jose on the woke discursive formation and how the term weaponises progressive argument. doi.org/10.1080/1036...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: why did Labor win so big in 2025? Sarah Cameron & Ian McAllister find a Coalition vote long eroded by generational change and a modern gender gap, then finished off by campaign leaders and issues. doi.org/10.1080/1036...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts, military rule runs through land, law and everyday administration, not just conflict. Binota Moy Dhamai argues peace requires the 1997 Accord and Jumma self-determination. doi.org/10.1080/1036...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: Morrison rejected a duty of care to kids on climate; Albanese invoked one to ban under-16s from social media. Judith Bessant, Philippa Collin & Nina Montero on two governments dodging binding duties. doi.org/10.1080/1036...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Independent and minor party success is concentrated in inner-urban and rural seats — not the suburbs. And since 2011, women make up nearly 60% of newly elected IMPs. Hayman, Spies-Butcher & Riboldi find evidence of enduring realignment, not just backlash. doi.org/10.1080/1036...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: Is the Community Independents Movement about electing candidates or empowering communities? Hendriks, Lloyd-Hurwitz & Reid find this tension is the CIM’s defining internal challenge - and that managing it is key to its unity. doi.org/10.1080/1036...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: Minor parties & independents account for 16% of disclosed federal political funding, but their funding profiles are strikingly different from each other, and from the majors. First systematic study of non-major electoral finance in Australia. doi.org/10.1080/1036...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Independent and minor party success is concentrated in inner-urban and rural seats — not the suburbs. And since 2011, women make up nearly 60% of newly elected IMPs. Hayman, Spies-Butcher & Riboldi find evidence of enduring realignment, not just backlash. doi.org/10.1080/1036...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: Is the Community Independents Movement about electing candidates or empowering communities? Hendriks, Lloyd-Hurwitz & Reid find this tension is the CIM’s defining internal challenge - and that managing it is key to its unity. doi.org/10.1080/1036...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: the US military suppressed the Diné language in boarding schools - then extracted it as a military weapon. Sulagna Basu analyses this contradiction through the concept of ‘technification’ in settler militarism.
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Settler militarism and technification: the case of the Navajo Code Talkers
This article builds on Juliet Nebolon’s conceptualisation of settler militarism (2024) to argue that settler militarism operates through the process of technification that emerges as a specific mec...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: Minor parties & independents account for 16% of disclosed federal political funding, but their funding profiles are strikingly different from each other, and from the majors. First systematic study of non-major electoral finance in Australia. doi.org/10.1080/1036...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: Real domestic emissions barely moved in Labor’s first term. Matthew Ryan argues the ALP’s climate approach is a Faustian bargain with private capital — and its ‘tactical fatalism’ on fossil fuels is driving us deeper into overshoot. doi.org/10.1080/1036...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: JRG didn’t reshape student choices - it deepened a curriculum crisis already underway. Thompson & Gerard find HASS course offerings at four universities fell by over 60% since 2017, driven by chronic underfunding, not the price signal. doi.org/10.1080/1036...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: the US military suppressed the Diné language in boarding schools - then extracted it as a military weapon. Sulagna Basu analyses this contradiction through the concept of ‘technification’ in settler militarism. doi.org/10.1080/1036...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: Real domestic emissions barely moved in Labor’s first term. Matthew Ryan argues the ALP’s climate approach is a Faustian bargain with private capital — and its ‘tactical fatalism’ on fossil fuels is driving us deeper into overshoot. doi.org/10.1080/1036...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: JRG didn’t reshape student choices - it deepened a curriculum crisis already underway. Thompson & Gerard find HASS course offerings at four universities fell by over 60% since 2017, driven by chronic underfunding, not the price signal. doi.org/10.1080/1036...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
New in AusJPS: Lindsay Katz, Inessa De Angelis & Rohan Alexander analyse 535,961 statements in Australian parliamentary debates to examine gender, party and interruptions in the House of Representatives. www.tandfonline.com/...
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AusPSA @auspsa.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
📣Reminder✨ The Peter Balint Memorial Prize in Political Theory is taking submissions. 🎓Awarded for an unpublished paper that makes a significant scholarly contribution to political theory. 🏆Includes a monetary award + pathway to publication with @ausjpolsci.bsky.social 🔗 tinyurl.com/peterbalint
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
New in AusJPS: Lindsay Katz, Inessa De Angelis & Rohan Alexander analyse 535,961 statements in Australian parliamentary debates to examine gender, party and interruptions in the House of Representatives.
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Do women politicians face more interruptions? An analysis of interjections in the Australian parliamentary debates (1998-2025)
Interruptions are a routine component of parliamentary debate, but also reveal underlying power dynamics and behavioural norms within political institutions. Using digitised Australian Hansard tran...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
New in AJPS: Katharine Gelber uses queer autoethnography to analyse donor conception law reform in Queensland, highlighting the emotions and labour behind long-term political change.
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Donor conception law reform in Queensland: an autoethnographic analysis
In recent years there has been a swathe of policy reform around Australia in relation to providing information on donor conception to the donor conceived. The primary impetus for change has been th...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
New in AusJPS: Olli Hellmann examines how history is mobilised in climate and conservation politics, analysing 25,000+ submissions on Aotearoa New Zealand’s Fast-track Approvals Bill.
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Mobilising the historical past in climate and conservation politics: the case of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Fast-track Approvals Bill
Research has documented how the historical past can be mobilised to legitimise policies and political action, yet we know very little about how collective memories are used to support stronger cons...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
New in AusJPS: Amanda Williams & Vanessa Rose analyse the Morrison government’s “gas-fired recovery”, showing how gas was constructed as central to economic recovery, energy transition and fossil fuel longevity.
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‘Gas has chosen itself’: a discourse analysis of the Morrison government’s gas-fired recovery
Within weeks of the catastrophic 2019–2020 Black Summer bushfire season, an event widely linked to climate change, the Morrison government announced a gas-fired recovery response to the economic do...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
New in AusJPS: Claire Fitzpatrick examines #ShoutYourAbortion and #RoevWade, asking how hashtags can amplify feminist counterpublics while also revealing the limits of deliberation in hostile digital spaces.
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#ShoutYourAbortion and being heard: the affordances of hashtags for feminist counterpublics in hostile digital atmospheres
This article critically explores counterpublic responses to the overturning of Roe v Wade and the intense contestation on Twitter (now X) between pro-abortion and anti-abortion advocates. Focusing ...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
New in AJPS: Katharine Gelber uses queer autoethnography to analyse donor conception law reform in Queensland, highlighting the emotions and labour behind long-term political change.
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Donor conception law reform in Queensland: an autoethnographic analysis
In recent years there has been a swathe of policy reform around Australia in relation to providing information on donor conception to the donor conceived. The primary impetus for change has been th...
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Mark Riboldi @markriboldi.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"Enduring realignment: gender and geography in Australian independent and minor party politics". New and open access from @phoebehayman.bsky.social, @bspiesbutcher.bsky.social and me in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social @auspsa.bsky.social @popgroupaus.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Thought-provoking to read the article below after reading danah boyd's new article on the evolution of social media into parasocial media. bsky.app/profile/kate...
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Ariadne Vromen @ariadnevromen.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Worth a read if you are interested in the effects of government intervention in humanities & social sciences education (in this case the policy of “jobs ready graduates” made HASS degrees more $$$ for Australian uni students - with a non-surprising result)
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
New in AusJPS: Adele Webb, Katharina Esau & Nicole Curato introduce a special issue on transformations in the public sphere, rethinking publicness, deliberation and democracy in platformised media environments. www.tandfonline.com/...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
New in AusJPS: Amanda Williams & Vanessa Rose analyse the Morrison government’s “gas-fired recovery”, showing how gas was constructed as central to economic recovery, energy transition and fossil fuel longevity.
tandfonline.com
‘Gas has chosen itself’: a discourse analysis of the Morrison government’s gas-fired recovery
Within weeks of the catastrophic 2019–2020 Black Summer bushfire season, an event widely linked to climate change, the Morrison government announced a gas-fired recovery response to the economic do...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
New in @ausjps: Kate Thompson & Kelly Gerard examine Job Ready Graduates, HASS curriculum rationalisation and the Australian regulatory state - showing how disciplines are pushed to articulate their value in economic terms.
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Graduate employability, curriculum rationalisation, and the Australian regulatory state
In June 2020, the Australian Coalition Government introduced the Job Ready Graduates (JRG) policy, seeking to discourage student uptake of humanities and social sciences (HASS) courses by increasin...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
New in AusJPS: Claire Fitzpatrick examines #ShoutYourAbortion and #RoevWade, asking how hashtags can amplify feminist counterpublics while also revealing the limits of deliberation in hostile digital spaces. www.tandfonline.com/...
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Matt Ryan @mattdjryan.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Publication day! Here I try to figure out what the ALP is up to with climate and energy. I argue by relying on private capital to build out its "transition", the Albanese gvt will ultimately fail to decarbonise. Open access! No paywall! @ausjpolsci.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Josh Holloway @jholloway.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
We've got a new paper out in the @ausjpolsci.bsky.social! We tracked the money behind minor parties and independents across electoral cycles. What we found confirms some key assumptions about political finance in Australia, but challenges others🧵
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
New in @ausjps: Jacob Broom analyses the Housing Australia Future Fund as a case of financialised policymaking, asking what it reveals about Labor, housing policy and the politics of social democracy. www.tandfonline.com/...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
New in AusJPS: Adele Webb, Katharina Esau & Nicole Curato introduce a special issue on transformations in the public sphere, rethinking publicness, deliberation and democracy in platformised media environments. www.tandfonline.com/...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
New in @ausjps: Llani Kennealy & Eleanor Gordon make the capability case for recruiting older women into the Australian Defence Force, challenging outdated assumptions about age, gender and the “soldier ideal”.
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From caregiver to capability: recruiting older women into the Australian defence force
Across Western democracies, defence forces face persistent recruitment shortfalls, compounded by declining birth rates, shrinking eligible youth populations, and evolving attitudes toward military ...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
New in @ausjps: Kate Thompson & Kelly Gerard examine Job Ready Graduates, HASS curriculum rationalisation and the Australian regulatory state - showing how disciplines are pushed to articulate their value in economic terms. www.tandfonline.com/...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
SPECIAL ISSUE CALL! Proposals due 30 September files.taylorandfrancis.com/cajp-call-fo...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
New in @ausjps: Jacob Broom analyses the Housing Australia Future Fund as a case of financialised policymaking, asking what it reveals about Labor, housing policy and the politics of social democracy. www.tandfonline.com/...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
New in @ausjps: Llani Kennealy & Eleanor Gordon make the capability case for recruiting older women into the Australian Defence Force, challenging outdated assumptions about age, gender and the “soldier ideal”. www.tandfonline.com/...
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
How has anti-LGBTQIA+ mobilisation evolved in Australia? Kurt Sengul & Barrie Shannon map the far-right’s emerging “anti-gender” countermovement. New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/...
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