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Louise Edwards

@ledw.bsky.social

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Academic, Asia-China-Australia

Louise Edwards FHKAH is an Australian sinologist. Her work has focused on women and gender issues in China and Asia. As of 2022, she is Emeritus Professor of Chinese History at the University of New South Wales and an honorary professor at both the Australia-China Research Institute and the University of Hong Kong. .. more

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Suffragette Christmas card from the Women's Social and Political Union, 1909. UK.#Womensart

Illustration of a standing white girl with a drum surrounded by a border of Holly and with musical notes underneath

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 2d

My first paper on disinformation just published. I argue that disinformation should be understood in pragmatic terms (e.g., changing content to influence choice) not epistemic terms (e.g., inducing inaccurate beliefs). You can view with this link. Spoiler in title.

link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

Disinformation is for degrading the value of information, not confirming falsehoods

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AusPoast @daryltractor.bsky.social · 2d

Incredibly moving interview with Sydney philosophy professor Peter Slezak, son of Holocaust survivors.

“Recognising Palestine was the right thing to do - in fact it was long overdue. How on earth can that be connected to two mass murders who commit an atrocity?”

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 7d

The ambiguous intimacy of the census: women workers sort through forms in the French census office in Paris in 1911 (Gallica, BnF) 🗃️

b&w photo shows two women sitting with their backs to the viewer, reading papers they're holding in front of themselves. Walls are lined with wooden pigeonholes. Stacks of paper are in the foreground.

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Erin Cook @erincook.bsky.social · 10d

It's unfortunately quite tricky to find now in Australia, but Maria Ressa's Seeds of Terror from 2011 has a look at Mindanao and how the area became such a terrible hotspot in the 90s/00s. A very helpful background imo.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 10d

It’s never too late to support reading. Evidence shows targeted interventions can lift literacy skills for older students too, writes Callula Killingly. #auspol #education #literacy

It's never too late to help students learn to read – even in high school

Many students with reading difficulties are missed after the early years. New evidence shows targeted, evidence-based support can still make a real difference well into high school.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 10d

Despite the spin, US submarine production is nowhere near its targets – putting Australia’s AUKUS plans, and the promised Virginia class subs, in serious doubt, writes Peter Briggs.
#auspol #AUKUS #defence

AUKUS meets reality – what's not in the AUSMIN Media Release (Part 1)

Despite official assurances, the US submarine program is falling well short of its own targets, raising serious doubts about whether Australia will ever receive the Virginia class submarines promised under AUKUS.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 10d

ATAR scores grab attention, but teachers remain underpaid, overburdened and taken for granted in Australia’s education system, writes Allan Patience. #auspol #education #teachers

Australia’s teachers – undervalued and overburdened

As ATAR scores dominate headlines, the work of teachers remains largely invisible. They are central to education and social cohesion, yet underpaid, overworked and routinely taken for granted.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 11d

As 2025 ends, P&I Editor Catriona Jackson reflects on a year shaped by political turmoil, global conflict and the search for real leadership. From Canberra to Gaza to Washington, the stakes could not be higher. @catrionajackso1 #AusPol #GlobalPolitics #PublicInterestJournalism

Message from the Editor

As we hurtle towards the chaos of Christmas, we are taking a moment to reflect on the high and lows of 2025, and what it all means for 2026.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 13d

The latest AUKUS review lands without public release, yet the signals are clear. Australia keeps funding US submarine capacity while gaining no real guarantees on sovereignty or delivery timelines, writes Binoy Kampmark.
#AUKUS #AusPol #ForeignPolicy

The Colby Review, AUKUS and lopsided commitments

The Colby review of AUKUS highlights how deeply Australia has tied itself to US strategic priorities while offering little clarity on what Canberra receives in return.

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Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · 15d

“Perhaps it is unsurprising, then, that anti-Arab sentiment and xenophobia are not confined to the past, or to Cronulla.”

Megan McElhone addresses revisionist histories of the Cronulla Riots, twenty years on.

Contending with Cronulla Riots revisionism, twenty years on - Overland literary journal

Rather than writing revisionist histories of the Cronulla Riots, we need to contend with the racism and xenophobia the riots were founded upon. The mob ultimately achieved its aim, with Middle Eastern...

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Louise Edwards @ledw.bsky.social · 16d

Where in the world are wealth and income most unequal?

The richest 10 percent of the world's population owns three-quarters of all personal wealth.

Louise Edwards @ledw.bsky.social · 16d

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Henry Matsumoto (1879-1934) Valet, Actor, Businessman

Henry Matsumoto, undated photo. Image courtesy of the National Archives of Australia. NAA: SP42/1, C1931/3848. This article was originally published in On Stage, the online journal of Theatre Herit…

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 17d

#OtD 9 Dec 1947 the Rawagede massacre was carried out by Dutch colonial troops in Indonesia, who executed 431 people: nearly every male aged over 15 in the village of Rawagede (now Balongsari). None of the killers were prosecuted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1088...

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casey briggs @caseybriggs.com · 17d

We're looking for an Election Researcher to help prepare election materials & cover election results. You’ll help manage key databases, produce research materials, and dive into electoral research. This is a unique elections and data role at ABC News

Full details: careers.abc.net.au/en/job/50515...

ABC Careers - Job Details - Election Researcher

Apply now Job no: 505156 Work type: Contract Full Time Location: Sydney Categories:

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Louise Edwards @ledw.bsky.social · 18d

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Trade meets geopolitics in Australia’s northern neighbourhood • Melissa Conley Tyler & Emilie Hung-Ling

With Indonesia expected to be among the world’s five biggest economies by 2050, the government is finding new ways to lift trade and investment

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 27d

Zhao Leji’s visit should have been about diplomacy and Australia–China relations. Instead, media coverage fixated on security threats and missed the point entirely, writes John Queripel. #China #Australia #Diplomacy #Media #ForeignPolicy

A Chinese visit, a security panic, and a silent media

The visit of China’s third-ranking leader should have prompted serious discussion about diplomacy and economic relations. Instead, Australia’s media fixated on security theatrics and fed a familiar cycle of fear.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 28d

Treating children as adults in the justice system breaches international law and ignores decades of evidence on rehabilitation. Punishment entrenches harm, writes Annette Alexander-Fliegner. #YouthJustice #ChildRights #HumanRights #AusPol #VicPol #CriminalJustice #Rehabilitation

Trying teenagers as adults won’t fix youth crime

Victoria’s proposal to send 14–17 year olds into adult courts ignores international law, expert evidence and decades of failed policy. Rehabilitation, not punishment, is what reduces future harm.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 29d

Australian scientists have improved our lives & increased national productivity.

So why is the CSIRO being forced to shed staff again?

@mattgrudnoff.bsky.social argues that cutting research jobs undermines the government's productivity drive. #auspol @ebonybennett.bsky.social

🎧 theaus.in/3XWDfAg

Photo of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in parliament
NEW EPISODE | What have the scientists ever done for us?
Listen to Follow the Money now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts

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Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · Nov 21

“She learned to use ink
to slowly cover
her reflection in the water,

hiding it from every eye,
until her skin
grew a waterproof shell.”

From HER NAME IS A RIVER, our latest #Fridaypoem by Tangqing Zhang.

overland.org.au/2025/11/her-...

Her name is a river - Overland literary journal

They measured her body / with iron chains, / and gave her a new name— / as if planting a eucalyptus / into a church vase, / uprooting the old one completely.

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Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org · Nov 20

Thanks to a leadership gift from AAS Past President Hyaeweol Choi, we are proud to announce the Hong Haeng Regional Conference Student Travel Award Program.

Read all about it: buff.ly/8f5HfUs

Audience listening to a speaker at a conference promoting donations for the Hong Haeng Regional Conference Travel Award.

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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · Nov 16

Jennifer Yip, Grains of Conflict: The Struggle for Food in China's Total War, 1937-1945:

Jennifer Yip, "Grains of Conflict: The Struggle for Food in China’s Total War, 1937-1945" (Cambridge UP, 2025) - New Books Network

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Louise Edwards @ledw.bsky.social · Nov 13

www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-chan...

At COP30, a north–south rift widens over how to fund a fair energy transition

At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, a significant divide has emerged between developing and industrialized nations over funding a fair energy transition. The Group of 77 and China have proposed a Just Transiti...

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Esther Anatolitis @anatolitis.bsky.social · Nov 7

Catch @tommcilroy.bsky.social on the ABC’s MediaLand discussing his essay in the latest Meanjin
‘“We shall all have to live with this”: the Canberra press gallery and the Dismissal’ www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... (listen from 8’40”)

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Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞戈 @sudasana.bsky.social · Nov 7

Oooh really looking forward to this press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The Politics of Common Reading

Examines the transformation of vernacular knowledge during a pivotal period of modern Chinese history, 1894 to 1954. What did common readers read in the midst of the revolutions that punctuated Chin...

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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · Nov 7

Great to see Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han #Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! Great comparison with Hyaeweol Choi’s Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: #Protestant #Modernity in #Colonial-Era Korea: newbooksnetwork.com/good-wife-wi...

Fang Yu Hu, "Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule" (U Washington Press, 2024) - New Books Network

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Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · Nov 7

In the final hours of our Subscriberthon, our brilliant co-editors Evelyn and Jonathan have an important message for you. Head to overland.org.au/shop or overland.org.au/donate today.

A message from Jonathan Dunk and Evelyn Araluen.

Kids, the arts are in trouble. Censorship, interference, austerity, hyper-surveillance, ministerial oversight and the fetish of social cohesion are now standard fare across the industry.

In the wake of our fallen comrades over at Meanjin, Overland’s work becomes more vital with every passing year as the Australian publishing sector continues to flounder in the face of cynicism, bureaucracy and profit incentives that hollow out our cultural institutions and undermine the integrity of our voices and testimonies.

Overland has survived because of a community that values independent media and storytelling. By subscribing and donating, you help Overland sustain our organisation so we can keep this important platform open to all readers and improve payments to writers. With your support we hope to never let the bastards grind us down.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · Nov 7

Our journalists can still tell sharp, critical, honest stories – but they might want to break free of the editorial obsession with casting China as the eternal antagonist. #auspol #China #News Corp #Racism

When in doubt, blame China (every News Corp headline needs a villain)

If you only skimmed the headlines from News Corp, you’d be forgiven for thinking China was launching a krill-powered naval strike from Antarctica, staging an electric vehicle blitzkrieg across the out...

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Gary Rawnsley @garydrawnsley.bsky.social · Nov 6

The arts & humanities, & languages especially, are again under attack, easy scapegoats for problems in HEIs. Nottingham prides itself on being a global university, but without language provision, that is now a problematic boast

Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham

In a statement the institution also says it is

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Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · Nov 5

“We live in an oligarchy,
but with this humidity
it feels like a dictatorship.”

On Day #5 of Overland’s subscriberthon, we bring you “Force posture agreement”, a new poem by Miroslav Sandev.
overland.org.au/2025/11/forc...

Force posture agreement - Overland literary journal

The men of Darwin have all taken their rottweilers / out for a walk at the same time. / For our protection. Like Pine Gap: / all those big white eyes that scan / the darkening horizon. / The eyes stay...

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