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Michelle Arrow

@michellearrow.bsky.social
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Historian. Author, The Seventies (2019), co-author Personal Politics (2024). Writing a biography of Anne Deveson. President, Australian Historical Association. Whitlam Institute Fellow. FASSA. She/her. Views my own. newsouthbooks.com.au/books.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
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Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia @acadsocsci.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
⭐️ FEATURED FELLOW ⭐️ Professor Michelle Arrow Affiliation: Macquarie University Discipline: History Read the article: socialsciences.org.au/news/feature... #populistmovements #australianhistory #socialscience @michellearrow.bsky.social
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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The one-off cut to student debt before last election cost $16b. Repealing JRG would cost around $1b annually. So the unconscionable delay on reform is a Labor choice.
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
You can fix this, today, @albomp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social & @jasonclaremp.bsky.social The fact that you haven't speaks volumes! "Education Minister Jason Clare has agreed it "failed" and is "unfinished business", but it is not clear when he plans to act." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
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'Failed' university scheme hurting home ownership prospects
There are calls for the government to dump a scheme that has more than doubled the cost of some degrees.
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Instead of waiting until 2027 for "advice", maybe Labor could follow advice from its own 2020 Senate report that rejected the anti-intellectual & inequitable scheme as creating an "Americanised education system characterised by high levels of private debt". And get rid of it. As promised. In 2022.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Of interest to UK university #Skystorians: Royal Historical Society open online meeting on 'The crisis in UK higher education: The future for History'. 4 August 2-4 pm.
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The Crisis in UK HE: the Future for History
An open meeting for historians in UK higher education on what is needed to best support and protect the profession and discipline.
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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
It's not that a Humanities education turns all its graduates into good people, it's that it arms good people with the skills and knowledge they need to understand and advocate for themselves, others, and society.
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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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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
There are plenty of ways to express anger at a failing political system without scapegoating particular communities, says Sisonke Msimang. But our very white mainstream media is treating racism as a reasonable response.
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Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Check it out! Wonderful special issue on Legacies of IWY, ed by @michellearrow.bsky.social @scrozierderosa.bsky.social - v. honoured to be a part of this fab line up. Congrats eds 👏👏 Australian Historical Studies: Vol 57, No 2 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rahs20/5...
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Australian Historical Studies
Special issue: Fifty Years On: Rethinking the Legacies of Australia’s International Women’s Year 1975. Guest Editors: Michelle Arrow and Sharon Crozier-De Rosa. Volume 57, Issue 2 of Australian Histor...
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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The government says it has ambitions to expand access to higher education. But by keeping job-ready graduates in place, they have demonstrated they don’t really mean it:
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 21/03/2026
One Nation is a scourge on our country, we can all agree. But this is not a problem for Labor to solve, or the Greens, far less the poor teals. This is the political Right’s house to clear.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Thriller movie about a guy who builds a time machine and then all he does is go back 30 years to buy a house
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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
how's this for an unintended consequence: some research suggests that teens perceive peers who comply with Australia's teen social media ban as less popular. i.e. banning social media for teens made it cool again
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The skills the market had dismissed turned out to be the ones the machines could not do. Judgement. Interpretation. The ability to read between the lines of something that presents itself as neutral. The capacity to hold two contradictory ideas[.] theslowai.substack.com/p/why-humani...
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The Humanities Are the Moat
Twenty years of defunding the disciplines that teach judgement. Now we are surprised nobody can tell when AI is wrong.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
250 staff. $65 million per year. Almost three years operating. Over 6000 referrals. Not a single public hearing. Not a single major corruption finding.
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Built to fail? NACC: the integrity body undermined from within
The National Anti-Corruption Commission’s performance since its inception has been widely condemned. The leadership of Commissioner Paul Brereton, in particular, has drawn heavy criticism. Indeed, the...
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"A robot can answer every question. It cannot notice the student who has stopped asking them." theslowai.substack.com/p/why-humani...
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The Humanities Are the Moat
Twenty years of defunding the disciplines that teach judgement. Now we are surprised nobody can tell when AI is wrong.
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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Today at 2:30, @kfullagar.bsky.social and I will be giving evidence in the Senate inquiry into Job-Ready Graduates on behalf of the AHA. This failed policy is bad for history and history students and it must go. The hearings are live-streamed if you’d like to watch: www.aph.gov.au/News_and_Eve...
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Watch, Read, Listen
Subscribe to our channel at @AUSParliamentLive to view the streams or listen to our podcast summaries of Question Time! LIVE STREAMING PARLVIEW VOD PODCASTING
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 24/04/2026
Second year in a row Aboriginal elders have been booed and abused while giving the Welcome to Country at the Dawn Service. Organisers should make it clear they will abandon the service if that happens. They won’t, but they should.
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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
This is an incredibly alarming investigation of the leadership of the NAAC.
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Big T @big-tony.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
It breaks my heart that in 2026 a Welcome To Country elicits such disrespect. Three generations of my family served this country and the haters can't spare them a minute of respect. 😢💔
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Katie Barclay @katieebarclay.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Unis: we’ll keep you in poverty and debt til you get your first job in your mid 30s. Uni colleagues: but also retire by 60 or we’ll think you’re hoarding resources. Oh you want to pay a mortgage down and save for retirement?? lol.
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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This is a superb piece on university governance by Hannah Forsyth: open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo...
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Uni managers gain 'headroom' by fucking everything up.
University bosses claim legitimacy from the work others do. And then they make it impossible for them to do it.
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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The AI rollout is an incredible test case for the power of capital to overrule everything in its way. An overwhelmingly stupid, obscenely polluting, and wildly dangerous set of technologies are being brute-forced into every part of our lives because money says so.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 16/04/2026
We're in Sheffield today to co-host our annual day conference, 'History and Archives in Practice', with @ihr.bsky.social, The National Archives, and University of Sheffield Library #HAP26 40+ speakers explore the contributions of history to social and civic identity: bit.ly/4tj8DqW #Skystorians
Images of the University of Sheffield and 'History and Archives in Practice' conference, 16 April 2026
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
"Some people say, “I just use it to brainstorm ideas.” If you don’t know what to paint, or compose, or write, you’re in the wrong job. Art is the business of making up stuff — go make up some stuff."
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ANU Press @anupress.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This issue of ‘Lilith' explores gender in 20th-century Australia and Britain, from maternal feminism and 'Citrus Queen' pageants to motherhood and mental health, and the arguments that won abortion law reform in 1960s Britain. Get your copy today: doi.org/10.22459/LFH... #feminist #feminism #gender
ANU Press New Release. Cover image of 'Lilith: A Feminist History Journal'.
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mariecolemanao.bsky.social @mariecolemanao.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Vale. A most remarkable woman.
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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
A great thread:
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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Writing tip #7: When, during the course of research, you come across a story that is central to the theme of your book, go ahead and write 2-3 pages about it. If you do this consistently, you’ll accumulate building blocks for the book. You’ll eventually find a place for each one.
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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
An important report on the terrible funding and equity impacts of Morrison-Clare’s job-Ready Graduates policy: futurecampus.com.au/2026/03/13/s...
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Students Pay $368m Extra; Unis Get $813m Less Under JRG
New figures shed light on the true cost of the hated Job Ready Graduates fee scheme - with the IRU suggesting a new approach to replacing it.
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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
A timely virtual special issue of Aust J of Politics and History: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
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Race, Rhetoric and Rights: boundary marking in Australian political discourse: Australian Journal of Politics & History
Click on the title to browse this issue
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Lauren Pikó @booklearning.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Historian friends, anyone got any reading recommendations on the Disability Discrimination Act / related campaigns in Australia? And/or on the way that different anti-discrimination Acts related to each other esp. in the 1990s?
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 11/03/2026
The NACC has been an utter waste of public money. Its sole achievement so far is to further persuade everyone that consequence-free corruption and bastardry are fixed features of government in this country.
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Lauren Pikó @booklearning.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
🧵: Books by historians I constantly recommend in policy meetings / professional contexts. In no order, to be added to when I remember: 1. The Seventies, by @michellearrow.bsky.social . Stuff can change, and it's possible to believe in things and plan for the future. unsw.press/books/the-se...
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The Seventies
WINNER of the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for History Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards  Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction
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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This is exciting - the 2025 Lilith is nearly out!
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 03/03/2026
International students accuse Australia of treating them like ATMs after fees for one visa double without warning
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International students accuse Australia of treating them like ATMs after fees for one visa double without warning
Union says students blindsided after non-refundable visa fee rose from $2,300 to $4,600 * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast International students say they feel like “ATMs” after the federal government quietly doubled application fees for temporary graduate visas, making Australia’s costs the most expensive in the world for graduates hoping to stay onshore after completing their studies. The non-refundable visa fee rose from $2,300 to $4,600 without prior warning on Sunday, placing Australia well in excess of competitors including New Zealand (A$1,406), Canada (A$262), the UK (A$1,665) and the US (A$661). Continue reading...
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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Where are law peak bodies and academic associations? Why aren’t they speaking up against the impact of this dreadful policy on their profession?
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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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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
TIL, via Josh Widdecombe's new podcast, Museum of Popular Culture, that the Spice Girls' 1996 interview with The Spectator (where Geri Halliwell claimed 'Thatcher was the first Spice Girl') was conducted by popular historian of Stalin, Simon Sebag Montefiore. archive.spectator.co.uk/article/14th...
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13/02/2026
Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why
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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
"wars can be lost before they are even declared if defenders surrender strategic terrain without a struggle. For universities, that terrain is the ultimate high ground: human intelligence itself. If we do not fight for it now, those who come after us will face an even more unequal struggle."
nytimes.com
Opinion | A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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My friend Jon has died | First Dog on the Moon
Jon Kudelka loved his beautiful family and was fiercely intolerant of greed and hypocrisy
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Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I don't know anyone in the sector who is not horrifically burnt out and depressed. Exec are probably fine, though
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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Meanjin's back!
Screenshot of email announcement that reads: 
Meanjin returns home
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) will become the new custodian of Meanjin, Australia's most eminent literary journal, bringing the publication back to Brisbane 80 years after it relocated to Melbourne.

QUT Vice-Chancellor Professor Margaret Sheil said: “QUT is delighted to bring Meanjin home to Meanjin / Magandjin – the lands of the Turrbal and Yugara peoples – where the journal was founded and where our Gardens Point campus now stands.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
the people who want you to believe that generative AI can paint like Picasso tend to gloss over the fact that Picasso didn’t have hundreds of Picassos to learn from. He had to make something new, which a model trained on old art is definitionally incapable of doing.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
the police presence at Town Hall is unfuckingbelievable. They are deep inside the station, stopping and searching people at the top of the stairs from the platform. Absolutely off the charts I have never seen anything like it and I have protested for over 40 years.
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I have many, many favourite Kudelka cartoons but this, from 2011, is possibly one of the best Aus pol cartoons ever drawn.
Scene is Julia Gillard and Chris Bowen (then Min for Immigration) in a lighthouse with "Light on the Hill: written under the bulb.
Gillard is turning the light off, saying 'It was attracting the boats"
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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
There’s some cosmic bingo tea towel out there that has a square for ‘too young, too funny, too decent’.
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