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Laura Rademaker

@laurarad.bsky.social
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Historian at the Australian National University Christian missions, Indigenous history, deep history, gender, religion Editor History Australia & Aboriginal History Monographs

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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Working in religious history and want to present at a conference? The Religious History Association wants to support you! therha.com.au/bursary-sche...
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Bursary Scheme – Religious History Association
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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Tiwi author brings untold WWII story to life in new children's book
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised the following article contains the names and images of Indigenous people who has died.A powerful new children's book by Tiwi author M...
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AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
ECRs! Don't forget that there's still time to apply for the 2026 Ann Curthoys Award, for unpublished work in Australian, feminist, Indigenous, transnational history, or history and theory! Follow the link for all the info: theaha.org.au/awards-and-p...
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Ann Curthoys Prize - The Australian Historical Association
The Ann Curthoys Prize is awarded for the best unpublished article-length work by an Early Career Researcher in any one or combination of the following fields in which Ann has […]
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Simon Farley @sighmonger.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
My latest article: 'We don’t know who did it. We don’t know their gender, their ethnicity or their political beliefs... What we do know is that in the summer of 1983–84, a fungus called Phragmidium violaceum was introduced to Australia – deliberately, secretly and illegally.' Call it 'plant noir'!
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‘Do-it-yourself biological control’: the unauthorised introduction of blackberry rust to Australia
In 1983, an unknown person smuggled blackberry rust (Phragmidium violaceum) into Australia – one of the nation’s most significant biosecurity breaches of the last half-century. Yet unlike most othe...
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
TIWI WAR KWAMPINI now out! www.ilf.org.au/news/tiwi-wa...
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Tiwi War Kwampini, Footprints in the Sand – Commemorating Tiwi Contribution to WWII
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Language teaching and translation: competitions over who can name, own, and control In 1st Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for 2026, @tazinabdullah.bsky.social speaks with Laura Rademaker about the Christian mission in North Australia languageonthemove.com/found-in-tra...
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Found in Translation
In this episode of Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah talks to Dr. Laura Rademaker (Australian National University), the author of Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australia…
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Come work with us! jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...
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Lecturer in History - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification: Academic Level BSalary package: $121,598 to $137,870 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerms: Full time, Continuing Contribute to excellent teaching to the School’s undergraduate and c...
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History Australia @historyaustralia.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Grab a ☕ and revisit a History Australia Collection! History in practice: Trove Special Section. www.tandfonline.com/journals/rah... Eight great articles from 18(4) 2021.
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
My advance copy of "Tiwi War Hero" arrived over the break - our toughest critic approves! Credit to the talented Mavis Kerinaiua for writing and illustrating her grandfather's story.
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
"We cannot allow our collective grief and fear to be used as a political weapon to attack the Palestine solidarity movement or any other democratic movement... The path to safety is democratic and rooted in our shared community" – Jewish Council of Australia petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/fr...
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ADD YOUR NAME ✍️ We will not be divided after Bondi
On Sunday at Bondi we witnessed the appalling consequences of hatred and how it breeds radicalisation and violence. But as the Jewish community and the whole country grieved, some politicians went on ...
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
In support of all our Jewish colleagues at a terrible time.
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AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Exciting news: the CFP for the 2026 AHA Conference is live! We'll be meeting at Macquarie University, on Dharug Country in Sydney, to discuss and explore the theme of "Changing Minds". We'd love to see you there: all the details are at the link! theaha.org.au/aha-conferen...
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AHA Conference 2026 - The Australian Historical Association
Monday 29 June–Friday 3 July 2026, Macquarie University The 45th Australian Historical Association (AHA) Conference will be hosted by Macquarie University.  The organising committee are excited to…
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History Australia @historyaustralia.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rah... Free access to the full History and AI collection throughout December.
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History Australia @historyaustralia.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The new issue of History Australia is out now! 22(4) www.tandfonline.com/toc/raha20/c... Throughout December, enjoy free access to the History & AI Forum! #historyaustralia
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
What should historians do with AI? Check out History Australia's latest forum www.tandfonline.com/journals/rah...
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History and AI
Explore the article collection: History and AI. Published in History Australia.
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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Australian writers shocked and ‘disgusted’ by closure of 85-year-old literary journal Meanjin
Meanjin published the cream of Australia’s writers. With its sudden closure, a vital, 85-year thread of our cultural conversation will fall silent.
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This is the big one. Anyone is welcome to sign, you don't have to be at ANU, you just have to care about higher ed. www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...
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Petition to ANU Council
In support of our petition, we observe that:  • ANU Council has the entire control and management of the University and is required to act in all matters concerning the ANU in the way it thinks w...
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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Universities have lost their way, but cost-cutting and consultants are not the answer
Last week in Sydney, we saw a melodrama acted out that could stand in for the state of Australian universities more generally.
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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
ANU and the Search Foundation are offering a PhD with $100,000 top up to complete the final (1970-91) volume of the history of the Communist Party of Australia. 👇
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Calling for Applicants to the Australian National University-SEARCH Foundation PhD Scholarship | School of History
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Chancel Culture, David Pope
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Courage @drdemography.com www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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ANU academic Liz Allen tells the Senate Education and Employment Education Committee that she's been "bullied into near suicide"
Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.
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Ana Stevenson @dranastevenson.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
A shoutout to all the academics who are also working 9 to 9, 24/7 👩‍💻
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Do you have some great work on religious history, but need financial support to get to a conference? The Religious History Association has a new Conference Bursary Scheme! therha.com.au/bursary-sche...
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Bursary Scheme – Religious History Association
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History Australia @historyaustralia.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Your support is needed - sign the petition opposing the Job-ready Graduates Scheme www.openpetition.org/au/petition/... @austhistassoc.bsky.social
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AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Job-Ready Graduates attacks the arts and humanities and presents an often insurmountable obstacle for those looking to undertake further study study. Follow the link for an Open Letter to @albomp.bsky.social calling for the repeal of JRG, and sign our petition. linktr.ee/aushistorica...
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
‘If Labor won’t act to defend equity in education, what is the point of them – I mean, what do they really stand for?’ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Tim Winton among 100 high-profile Australians calling for university fees that don’t ‘punish’ arts students
Open letter urges Labor to reverse JRG scheme, introduced by Coalition in 2021, as cost of humanities degrees reaches more than $50,000
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
"cultural vandalism on a breathtaking scale"
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
"These are just highly talented and idealistic young people... These are the kind of people the country needs, now and in the future."
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
"A threat to the health of Australia’s humanities sector" historycouncilnsw.org.au/anu-restruct...
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ANU issue – HCNSW’s response to the proposed dismantling of national humanities and social science research infrastructure | History Council of New South Wales
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Never mind that they're the top ranked anthropologists in Australia, and in the top ten in the world. This is how they're treated
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
"Let the people who built this place do their work" #ourANU
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Kate Fullagar @kfullagar.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
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Australia can't withstand further humanities cuts
The Australian Academy of Humanities views with great concern the impact on staff, students and the wider community of the ANU’s plan for the humanities and social sciences. Now is not the time to red...
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The Wild Australia Show, now out as a free download! Congratulations to the authors! doi.org/10.22459/WAS... doi.org/10.22459/WAS...
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The Wild Australia Show
<p>The Wild Australia Show was a troupe of 27 Aboriginal performers recruited from northern Queensland in the 1890s for a world tour that would culminate at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago...
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ANU Press @anupress.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
NAIDOC Week 2025 marks a powerful milestone: 50 years of honouring and elevating Indigenous voices, culture and resilience. Explore over 50 titles on Indigenous culture in our list, available in multiple formats: press.anu.edu.au
An illustration showing five figures in profile, increasing in height from left to right. Each figure is dressed in patterned, flowing garments in shades of yellow, blue, green, ochre, and red. A large yellow sun is in the top left corner, with swirling blue and black patterns in the background. At the bottom, there is a logo and text that reads: 'THE NEXT GENERATION: STRENGTH, VISION & LEGACY, 6–13 JULY 2025'.
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Kids four minutes into the first day of school holidays: "I'm boooooorreedd"
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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
With a million thanks to @stplbrk.bsky.social for the best collegiality ever, I had two incredible days but a bazillion heartbreaking conversations in North Queensland hannahforsyth.substack.com/p/the-world-...
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The world is going troppo: and things in universities are not looking up.
This week I went to a *really* good conference with the theme 'Looking Up'. But I was alarmed at the experience of those currently working in universities, many of whom are not able to look up rn.
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Great new article by Carolyn Collins & Paul Sendziuk www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The power of suggestion: engagement, industriousness and General Motors–Holden’s suggestion plan
After World War Two, General Motors–Holden launched an employee suggestion scheme that paid out millions of dollars in rewards for suggestions leading to improvements in productivity and workplace ...
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Brisbane friends!
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Look what's arrived!
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History Australia @historyaustralia.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Historicising industriousness… Hannah Forsyth and Matthew Bailey set the scene. Read open access at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #history #australia
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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 11/06/2025
‘Redundancies are being pushed through at many universities even as their accounts attest to relatively robust financial health.’ ANU the nation’s number one…in cutting jobs.
Recent reductions in Australian universities’ workforces. ANU number 1.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 29/05/2025
This is an incredible graph from @grogsgamut.bsky.social that shows how cooked our tax system is. The Federal Govt gives over $33 bn in tax concessions to the richest 10% through CGTD + super. That's more than 2x the total spend on all govt schools. It's 2x the cost of putting dental in Medicare.
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Our ANU @ouranu.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Open letter: The ANU executive is planning a new round of unnecessary and damaging cuts and forced redundancies. We are asking staff to sign this open letter calling on the executive to cancel planned CMPs and to be transparent about ANU’s finances. ANU colleagues please sign and share widely.
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Open letter: Staff call on the ANU executive to stop these unnecessary cuts
Fact sheet on 'Renew ANU so far': https://shorturl.at/iYVjc Open Letter PDF for print with QR codes to sign: https://shorturl.at/5KYs3 __________________________________________________ Letter to AN...
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
What is the role of historians in genocidal times? 'To respond to the call that is being screamed from Gaza and from Palestine for just action and truth-telling'. From Zora Simic, Jordy Silverstein and Ben Silverstein www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘We open our eyes despite the pain it causes’: a role for historians in these genocidal times
Published in History Australia (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Look out! Coming soon from Aboriginal History Monographs - THE WILD AUSTRALIA SHOW - how public performance could be a means for cultural survival and resurgence.
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Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
From the first page alone: executive travel at ANU over one-year would pay for NINETY FIVE entry-level lecturers.
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
"Across 2022 and 2023, the ANU spent more than $71.6 million on travel, over $11 million on advertising and over $107 million on consultants. That $190 million, if saved, would have negated entirely the $100 million cuts to jobs" @joshuablackjb.bsky.social
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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Protest consigned to history departments? Better get busy then www.abc.net.au/religion/aus...
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