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Adrian Vickers
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Professor Emeritus. Historian and art historian, especially of Indonesia/Bali. DH, cricket, representation. Comments personal and not related to my university’s views. Projects include http://balipaintings.org/ and https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/ .. more

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Adrian Vickers is an Australian author, historian and professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Sydney. He writes a blog on Indonesian subjects. He has studied and documented Gambuh dance traditions, Panji (prince) stories, and other Indonesian art and cultural subjects as well as historiography and colonialism. He has a BA and PhD from the University of Sydney, is the Professor of Southeast Asian Studies and Director of the Asian Studies Program. Vickers' most recent book, The Pearl Frontier, co-written with Julia Martínez, won the University of Southern Queensland History Book Award at the 2016 Queensland Literary Awards. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. .. more

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · Nov 19
The Virtual Museum of Balinese Painting has undergone a major make-over. We're still fixing some things (like the bibliography link), but thanks to the Systemik team, I've been able to add a lot more: heurist-usyd.cloud.edu.au/heurist/?db=...
The Virtual Museum of Balinese Painting
Enter a concise description of the Heurist database / website here, which will be used eg. in lists of websites and in search engine discovery. Remember to indicate the institution and/or project, t...
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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 2h
Love it

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DVB English News @dvbenglish.bsky.social · 13h
The National League for Democracy party, which was ousted from government during the military coup on Feb. 1, 2021, announced on Wednesday that it has expelled 20 of its members for supporting the regime elections english.dvb.no/national-lea...
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National League for Democracy expels 20 members for ‘supporting’ regime’s 2025-26 elections - DVB
The National League for Democracy (NLD) party, which was ousted from government during the military coup on Feb. 1, 2021, announced on Wednesday that it has expelled 20 of its members for participatin...
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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 15h
I blame the AFL

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 16h
Decent pitch

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 16h
Bit of a rubbish wicket

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 1d
When decimalisation occurred in 1966, the Australian government compiled an 81 page file on dangers of using decimal coins in Christmas puddings. There was a media campaign warning people not to use the new coins in their cooking. The file is now digitised.

recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetri...

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Tania Roxborogh @taniaroxborogh.bsky.social · 1d
#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d
Northern NSW alternates between becoming a separate state or joining Qland

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Gilles Deleuze For You @deleuzeforyou.bsky.social · 1d
I have always felt like an empiricist, or a pluralist. What does this empiricism-pluralism equivalency mean? It derives from the two traits Whitehead used to define empiricism: 1) abstraction does not explain but must be explained,

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 2d
And northern NSW (likewise port)

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 2d
#OtD 24 Dec 1783 simultaneous mutinies occurred on two Dutch East India Company ships. On the Java, 25 Chinese sailors rebelled after cruel treatment by Europeans, while 20 enslaved Javanese sailors murdered several officers on the Slot ter Hoge stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9636...

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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 2d
I read a thread a few months ago (apols to the OP) pointing out that MOOCs succeeded insofar as institutions now often claim instructor IP; lectures are recorded; classes are modularised, outcome-focused & 'supported' by generic 'help' resources... MOOC thinking accelerated HE neoliberalism.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d
The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Every society that has ever existed has had views that are mainstream and views that are fringe. The free-speech frauds who captured the discourse over the past decade understood this, but their true objection was that they did not unilaterally have the power to define which was which. For example, in a 2018 Times column, Weiss complained that “leftists” were engaged in a “concerted attempt to significantly redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” This was meant to sound sinister, menacing. In fact, this is politics. Every faction is always trying to “redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” In a free society, the government allows people to have those arguments. Such disputes are not a threat to free speech; they are free speech. When I say that CBS News’s Bari Weiss understood this, you needn’t take my word for it. In November, shortly after being given the reins to one of the oldest broadcast-news organizations in the country, Weiss used identical language to describe her own project: “I think it’s about redrawing the lines of what falls in the 40-yard lines of acceptable debate and acceptable American politics and culture,” Weiss said at the Jewish Leadership Conference. “And I don’t mean that in, like, a censorious, gatekeeping way.” What’s the difference between her “redrawing the lines” of acceptable speech and other people doing it? What makes one “censorious” and “gatekeeping” and the other not? Well, because she gets to decide. That’s what so much of the free-speech panic was ever about: making sure the right people were in charge of what you see, hear, and read. Notably, this has very little to do with reporting the news, which is supposed to be what CBS News does. But if the point of installing Weiss was to ensure that she would gatekeep on behalf of right-wing interests, that is precisely what she appears to be doing.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Peter Navarro: "In an age of AI when all the white collar jobs are going away pretty damn quick, I think maybe it's a good time for people to think about having good blue collar jobs ... give tariffs a chance, because they're working"

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 3d
One of the cheap interventions I would like Jacqui Smith to do to save the sector is to re-educate managers in how accounting works. They have all taken some truly bananas MBA training that is about salamislicing & destroying your own institution through internal competition and it shows.

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 3d
René Wassing, a Dutch anthropologist, was in the boat as well but survived. The river was full of crocodiles

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 3d
Rudy investigated a report of a tribal group sacrificing someone and confirmed it wasn’t Rockefeller. That report was taken up by others later, including an American journalist out for a sensational story.

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 3d
It was an organised ethnographic expedition to acquire Asmat objects. He was warned by Rudy deIonge, the Dutch district officer, not to take the canoe out into the river, but took it anyway and drowned. His body was never recovered.

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Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social · 4d
My new article just in time for the holidays has a long name and is in Australian Studies:

It is part of an opportunity to do some oral history work near my university. Hopefully more to come in the not too distant future!

Free eprint:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KMWWT...
Attending to the Subaltern Through Oral Histories of the NSW Tablelands: Uralla, “Struggletown”, and Guyra, the “White Cockatoo”
Keeping in mind how memory and history constitute power, this article advocates the use of existing oral histories of subalterns that make rich contributions to our understanding of regional towns ...
www.tandfonline.com

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 4d
Australians: we don't like guns. This is excellent.

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 4d
It’s similar to what they did with the Voice. Take an issue that should be bi-partisan and use it to break things. The politics of negativity.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 4d
Indonesia is seeking to plug an unusually deep revenue shortfall before year-end by scrutinizing wealthy individuals and big businesses for extra tax payments.
Rich Families Face Tax Audits as Indonesia Races to Plug Deficit
Indonesia is seeking to plug an unusually deep revenue shortfall before year-end by scrutinizing wealthy individuals and big businesses for extra tax payments.
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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 4d
Interesting

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 4d
Gun crackdown and controversial protest laws to be passed in NSW despite Coalition split over firearms
Gun crackdown and controversial protest laws to be passed in NSW despite Coalition split over firearms
NSW Nationals to oppose gun law reforms introduced in wake of Bondi attack, as Greens say protest laws are ‘draconian’ and may be unconstitutional Gun laws will be significantly tightened and protests restricted for up to three months in New South Wales at the behest of the police commissioner, under an emergency set of laws introduced to the state parliament in the wake of the Bondi shooting. The bill is being debated in the lower house on Monday and is expected to pass the lower house on Monday afternoon with the support of the NSW Liberal party, and pass the upper house on Tuesday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com

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Kerry Jaggers 🇦🇺 @kerryjaggers.bsky.social · 4d
Amy Remeikis:

"We have witnessed some of the rawest and most blatant politics in response to the Bondi tragedy. Never before have Australians witnessed their alternative government blame their current government for a terrorist attack." #auspol

www.deepcutnews.com/p/massacre-a...
Massacre as political theatre: our shameful national response to Bondi
Politicians and the media have seized on the Bondi tragedy to drag Australia further right
www.deepcutnews.com

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 5d
Aha. I’ve forgotten what it was anyway.

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 5d
This is part of a great thread (although the original post seems to have been mysteriously blocked). Warning to AI spruikers: don’t tell historians how to suck eggs.
cjdenial.bsky.social Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 5d
This is the entire premise of our profession. You do due diligence. You take years to do the work. You *read the other works you are using*. We have been doing it for decades.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 5d
This is the entire premise of our profession. You do due diligence. You take years to do the work. You *read the other works you are using*. We have been doing it for decades.

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 5d
Greetings from the Summer solstice, where we are baking in the heat

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 5d
I think that’s casualties, not deaths