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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Japanese railway, Kancanaburi

Hellfire Pass, the narrow gorge carved out to build the Burma Railway

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Where did the myth come from that only off-road vehicles get fuel tax rebates in Australia? ATO website is very clear that this is not the case?

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Railways as historical markers, the abandoned Jezreel Valley Railway as marker of shifting borders

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The annual AR Davis lecture given by Jumanah Bayeh @asah-sydney.bsky.social

The opening of the lecture with the title West Asia and the “Middle West” Asian Studies today

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Found this fascinating local story about Douglas Grant, an Aboriginal man taken from his family after the brutal frontier wars in Queensland, raised locally here, served in WWI where he was wounded and captured by the Germans, worked amongst other places at Callan Park.

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Just arrived, new book on Topeng, thanks to Irving Chan Johnson. My chapter is on I Ketut Rinda, one of the great performers of the mid-C20th.

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Our Australian Socirt for Asian Humanities conference is a huge success @asah-sydney.bsky.social

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Current state of air in the city

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Grateful to my neighbours for cheering things up in gloomy times

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

This doesn’t necessarily send out the message they intend to convey

“Learn from lecturers, tutors and industry icons” sign at University of Western Australia

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Must be working, measurements have gone down:

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Classic Monash SEA Centre publication from 1987

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

No zoom, right next to where I was sitting

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Lovely new book by my colleague on the Multilingual Archive project, Josh Stenberg. Hitherto little-known Chinese poems written in early C20th Australia

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Our local school has it right

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Looks like the British mind also can’t comprehend a rational system

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Coming up in Singapore’s Tuesday, revisiting issues of Southeast Asian cultural history that I first looked at 30 years ago

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This pro-Trump piece even more unhinged. A good reminder of how Murdoch has helped put Trump in

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Two stories that appeared on my timeline together

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

And @joelobianco.bsky.social’s launch of our special issue of Australian Historical Studies www.tandfonline.com/toc/rahs20/c...

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

A highlight was the student presentations on using our website omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Our Opening the Multilingual Archive of Australia conference earlier in the week went stunningly well, from Joy Damousi’s keynote to the final Roundtable

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

The American mind cannot comprehend such an efficient system

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

There’s supposed to be an embedded link!

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