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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When I started exploring the SLNSW protest archive I wanted to write a guidebook for activists, but - unsurprisingly ‘Quiet Protest’ ended up much more historical. Thanks to Hannah Viney for seeing my attempts to show how similar our struggles now are to those in the past. aph.org.au/2026/09/book...

This is not simply a history book but an eloquent and hopeful ode to modern human rights campaigns. For anyone involved in protest in 2026, this book provides both examples and inspiration for rethinking how to build a thriving activist community. Karageorgos draws links between the methods used in the 1960s with modern protest, demonstrating to readers how the efforts of activists 60 years ago can inform current campaigns. In 1966, 58 writers issued a collective statement condemning conscription; in 2023, over 30 independent presses, poets, writers and translators hosted a Global Reading for Freedom of Expression and Solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon with readings and performances livestreamed for 24 hours on YouTube. The tactics and the supporters are the same, it is only the technology and platform that has been updated.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I used to sit by my mum’s stereo to tape songs from the radio - I remember listening to Lithium for the first time and thinking it was the best thing I’d ever heard. Maybe this makes me old too, damn.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Thanks! I’m excited to teach it

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It’s Week 1 of semester and the first day of teaching in my new long-awaited (at least by me) course HIST2253: Bodies and Brains: Histories of Illness, Disability and Disease. Today I’ll talk to the students a bit about pain, death, disability histories/activism and social control. I’m so excited 🎉.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I’m on holidays in Greece after a very busy first half of the year. Back to work, teaching my new University of Newcastle course HIST2253: Bodies and Brains: Histories of Illness, Disability and Disease, in just under two weeks. Here is a video of the sea closest to our family village.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I love that story and this sounds very similar to my yiayia!

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Watching the World Cup on SBS reminds me of how much SBS has been a staple for Greek-Australian (& other) communities. I remember visiting family friends with my parents as a kid where SBS was on in the background all day, in case a Greek show came on. An absolute institution for so many Australians

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Invitations to our Finding Home: Life Outside Institutions exhibition have arrived! This exhibition is one of the outcomes of our (@cathycoleborne.bsky.social and I) ARC DP about mental health aftercare in Aust 1900-1960, held at Watt Space Gallery, curated by Gillean Shaw. It opens on 8 July 6pm.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Our University of Newcastle Centre for Society, Health and Care Research is holding an online winter webinar tomorrow featuring the medical anthropologist Professor Kate Senior speaking on the ‘Living the Social Determinants of Health’. All welcome. www.newcastle.edu.au/events/colle...

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Winter Webinar - Living the Social Determinants of Health

Join this Winter Webinar with featured speaker for the Centre for Society, Health and Care Research Professor Kate Senior.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Alt text; a heron in the bottom left hand corner sitting in a lake but it’s foggy so you can’t see the end of the lake, just fog.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Another image of beautiful Lake Macquarie, taken this morning (the morning of the day I submit the final grades in my 650 student Uni of Newcastle Australian history course for 2026 🎉🎉

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This is fantastic. I want to know more about the actors’ actual lives though - who are they? Were they existing activists? 👏🏼👏🏼

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Not a problem! I watched it back just as I sat at my computer this morning, and realized that I felt significantly more relaxed after watching it. 🙂

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Here is a calming video from my morning walk/run (of a pelican slowly moving over a grey lake under a grey sky) to help us all deal with the fact that it’s Monday morning again.

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gregtross.bsky.social @gregtross.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Episode #215 Delving deep into the archives of Australian history, we speak with historian Effie Karageorges about her new book, Quiet Protest. The Vietnam War sparked the largest demonstrations Australia had ever seen. player.captivate.fm/episode/822c...

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Quiet Protest...a chat with Effie Karageorges

Quickly and easily listen to The Last Post Radio Show for free!

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I had a great chat with Greg T Ross on his The Last Post podcast about my @newsouthpublishing.bsky.social book ‘Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War’, democracy, conscription, anti-war veterans, Simon Townsend and art (among other things) podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

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Quiet Protest...a chat with Effie Karageorgos

Podcast Episode · The Last Post Radio Show · 17 May · 44min

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Another Monday of an incredibly full week, made somehow more bearable by this view of a heron, lake and cloudy blue sky first thing in the morning.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

A friend has just corrected me: It's all to do with being a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), not geographical location. Australia is an Associate Member of the EBU and such they have invited us.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The actual answer is because we have so many migrants from Europe in this country. This still doesn’t really explain why as clearly as it should.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I’m Australian and ask myself the same question every year (note that I’m Greek-Australian so have been watching the competition since childhood - firmly backing Greece).

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A reminder that this author talk is tomorrow at the State Library of NSW: myself in conversation with Ann Curthoys, Rowan Cahill & Lee Rhiannon - & my new book Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War (@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social). www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/quiet...

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Quiet protest from the anti-Vietnam War movement to today

Vietnam era activists Rowan Cahill, Ann Curthoys and Lee Rhiannon discuss their experiences of quiet protest in the 1960s and 1970s with Effie Karageorgos.

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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Exciting post received yesterday, looking forward to digging in. @eleaud.bsky.social

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Thanks Jon! I hope you enjoy it 🙂

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I had a great half hour chat with Trevor Chappell and some really incredible callers on ABC Overnights this morning about my new @newsouthpublishing.bsky.social book Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... (go to 2:24:00 or so).

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Overnights - ABC listen

On Overnights, there's great music and interesting guests from Australia and all parts of the globe.

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Kristen Alexander @kristenauthor.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

#histbookchat excellent book. It is really enlightening about the quieter Vietnam protest movement. Published by New South so readily available in Australia.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Thanks so much Kristen! I appreciate this and glad you like the book!! I’m just so happy to see it published.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

On 30 April, Ann Curthoys, Lee Rhiannon, Rowan Cahill and I will be speaking about Quiet Protest at the State Library of NSW. Register here: www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/quiet... (3/3)

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Quiet protest from the anti-Vietnam War movement to today

Vietnam era activists Rowan Cahill, Ann Curthoys and Lee Rhiannon discuss their experiences of quiet protest in the 1960s and 1970s with Effie Karageorgos.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I will be on ABC Radio Melbourne this evening at 8.40pm to talk about the year 1970 (Moratoriums, police violence, protests, but also quiet activism including chess clubs, badge wearing and other cute but impactful actions). (2/3)

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

My book Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War (@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social) is out tomorrow (but I have seen photo evidence that it's already out on display in an array of bookstores if you want to get in early). (1/3) unsw.press/books/quiet-...

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Quiet Protest: A new history of activism during the Vietnam War

A new history of protest told through the quiet activism of everyday Australians.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Thanks so much Kristen! This is too kind!

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

My first copy of Quiet Protest just arrived! It will be out on 1 April, published by @newsouthpublishing.bsky.social (although there will be early copies for sale at the Newcastle Writers Festival from 27-29 March) and launches and author talks to follow.

It’s a picture of me with my new book Quiet protest a new history of activism during the Vietnam war

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I was up early this morning to speak to Trevor Chappell on ABC Overnights about Australian participation in the South African (Boer) War. It was fun to go back and talk about my older research! It’s here if you want to listen (It starts at about 2:24:00). www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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Overnights - ABC listen

On Overnights, there's great music and interesting guests from Australia and all parts of the globe.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Bookings for the history walk open 9 Feb and here is more information about my book (published by UNSW Press): unsw.press/books/quiet-...

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Quiet Protest: A new history of activism during the Vietnam War

A new history of protest told through the quiet activism of everyday Australians.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I’m so looking forward to this history walk with a group of my friends and colleagues from the University of Newcastle, part of the Newcastle Writers Festival & only a few days before my book Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism in the Vietnam War is published (there will be early copies there!)

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

No I haven’t - what is that?

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The self-removal of artist-activist bodies from the AWW has created some of the most impactful quiet(er) protest seen in this country in recent years, and shows us the extent to which we believe that freedom of speech is a core democratic right. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler

Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

government policy but at least it should make people…respect the protesters and try to understand why they feel as they do…After all, if you were rich enough to afford a Drysdale and you learned that Russell Drysdale was right against the war, it’d make you want to find out why, wouldn’t it?' (2/2)

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

This list of esteemed authors who have withdrawn from the Adelaide Writers Festival emphasizes how such responses can, in fact, strengthen social movements, illustrated by these words by musician Marian Henderson before Arts Vietnam Week of October 1968: 'It mightn’t have much effect on… (1/2)

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

A very Australian beach scene, a photo of Newcastle Beach taken yesterday, my last day of a 3 week work-free summer holiday. I post this to mark an excellent, restful break with wonderful friends & family (and sadness that I am currently sitting in front of my computer again). Happy new year all!

Sand on the right and a curved beach with tents and people dotted here and there. The water is very clear and cliffs are at the back of the image. There are no clouds in the sky.

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

You too! I’m very well! Back to work tomorrow 🙂 how are you?

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

It’s such a fantastic project!!! Hope you’ve been well Ciara 🙂

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

The figurative gods are looking out for me. I am writing a book review that I thought needed to be 800 words, but I have written 1010 (and will be difficult to reduce). I just checked the original request and, lo and behold, they've actually asked for 1000 words. Me right now:

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a woman in a sweater says phew thats such a relief

ALT: a woman in a sweater says phew thats such a relief

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Amazing History of Medicine PhD scholarship opportunity at the University of Newcastle (Australia), part of Prof Cathy Coleborne's ARC grant on Australian experiences of polio: www.newcastle.edu.au/study/resear...

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A Social History of Polio Vaccination in Australia, 1950s to 1970s

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I was so happy to see Mia's name yesterday! Wonderful topic and well deserved.

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