Prof. Amanda Wise
@amandawise.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology | Researching social inequalities in global cities | race & racism | co-existence | diversity & the urban commons | informal sport | migrant workers in Singapore & Australia | mainstreaming far-right. | Palestine | All views my own
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A message from ACTU Secretary @sallymcmanus.bsky.social for NTEU members at MQ!
We support all union activists and will advocate against these redundancies. Join us to fight for what’s right: nteu.au/join
@damiencahill.bsky.social
We support all union activists and will advocate against these redundancies. Join us to fight for what’s right: nteu.au/join
@damiencahill.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 7:33 AM
A message from ACTU Secretary @sallymcmanus.bsky.social for NTEU members at MQ!
We support all union activists and will advocate against these redundancies. Join us to fight for what’s right: nteu.au/join
@damiencahill.bsky.social
We support all union activists and will advocate against these redundancies. Join us to fight for what’s right: nteu.au/join
@damiencahill.bsky.social
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✅ The independent Australian Census on Staff Wellbeing is now live.
This survey is:
🟣 Independent
🟣 Confidential
🟣 Takes 5-6 mins
This is for all university staff - help make our workplaces safer today: nteu.info/census
This survey is:
🟣 Independent
🟣 Confidential
🟣 Takes 5-6 mins
This is for all university staff - help make our workplaces safer today: nteu.info/census
October 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
✅ The independent Australian Census on Staff Wellbeing is now live.
This survey is:
🟣 Independent
🟣 Confidential
🟣 Takes 5-6 mins
This is for all university staff - help make our workplaces safer today: nteu.info/census
This survey is:
🟣 Independent
🟣 Confidential
🟣 Takes 5-6 mins
This is for all university staff - help make our workplaces safer today: nteu.info/census
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While Twitter might still drive policy in the US, it doesn't in Australia. But neither's Bluesky or LinkedIn.
We've lost a social platform that drives discourse, brings new thinkers to public prominance and connects policymakers and journalists with people with ideas outside our stale institutions.
We've lost a social platform that drives discourse, brings new thinkers to public prominance and connects policymakers and journalists with people with ideas outside our stale institutions.
The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?
Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?
The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy
www.newstatesman.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
While Twitter might still drive policy in the US, it doesn't in Australia. But neither's Bluesky or LinkedIn.
We've lost a social platform that drives discourse, brings new thinkers to public prominance and connects policymakers and journalists with people with ideas outside our stale institutions.
We've lost a social platform that drives discourse, brings new thinkers to public prominance and connects policymakers and journalists with people with ideas outside our stale institutions.
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I wrote to Tony Burke about the closure of Meanjin, and finally received a reply from the office of Jason Clare, who had been forwarded the message because it was an issue for higher education, rather than the arts (!).
This is a wholly embarrassing and inadequate buck pass and response.
This is a wholly embarrassing and inadequate buck pass and response.
October 14, 2025 at 5:30 AM
I wrote to Tony Burke about the closure of Meanjin, and finally received a reply from the office of Jason Clare, who had been forwarded the message because it was an issue for higher education, rather than the arts (!).
This is a wholly embarrassing and inadequate buck pass and response.
This is a wholly embarrassing and inadequate buck pass and response.
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Gold. “put every university decision-maker responsible for the ongoing, farcical fatcattery in Australian higher education to the figurative sword. It’s in the national interest for the sector to be reformed, and heads to roll”
To Australia’s university fat cats, who may yet face job cuts not of their own making – don’t forget to wash your underwear …
To Australia’s university fat cats, who may yet face job cuts not of their own making – don’t forget to wash your underwear …
It’s been decades since parasitic consultancies began advising our tertiary institutions, at exorbitant cost
The corporate cannibalisation of Australia’s higher education sector is so bad that it has entered the firmament of literature.
Poet Dorothy Porter recorded it with bleak precision in her award-winning verse-novel, Wild Surmise:
Daniel used to enjoy teaching.
Three thousand years ago. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Gold. “put every university decision-maker responsible for the ongoing, farcical fatcattery in Australian higher education to the figurative sword. It’s in the national interest for the sector to be reformed, and heads to roll”
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Australian universities are a shit show and university managements who listen to corporate consultancy grifters are to blame. My latest in the @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
To Australia’s university fat cats, who may yet face job cuts not of their own making – don’t forget to wash your underwear …
It’s been decades since parasitic consultancies began advising our tertiary institutions, at exorbitant cost
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Australian universities are a shit show and university managements who listen to corporate consultancy grifters are to blame. My latest in the @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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“ACU’s vice-chancellor was handed a $60,000 pay rise last year, taking his salary to $1.1 million. So while he is happy to pocket a 5.8 per cent pay rise, staff are being offered 2.5 per cent.” -NTEU General Secretary Dr Damien Cahill @damiencahill.bsky.social
Read more: nteu.info/acustrike
Read more: nteu.info/acustrike
October 15, 2025 at 3:48 AM
“ACU’s vice-chancellor was handed a $60,000 pay rise last year, taking his salary to $1.1 million. So while he is happy to pocket a 5.8 per cent pay rise, staff are being offered 2.5 per cent.” -NTEU General Secretary Dr Damien Cahill @damiencahill.bsky.social
Read more: nteu.info/acustrike
Read more: nteu.info/acustrike
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New #book by TASA member Benjamin Hanckel et al.
Researching with Young People: An Introduction to Youth-Centred Research Methods
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/researchi...
Researching with Young People: An Introduction to Youth-Centred Research Methods
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/researchi...
www.bloomsbury.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
New #book by TASA member Benjamin Hanckel et al.
Researching with Young People: An Introduction to Youth-Centred Research Methods
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/researchi...
Researching with Young People: An Introduction to Youth-Centred Research Methods
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/researchi...
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**2 PhD Opps.**
Led by TASA members Anita Harris and Loretta Baldassar
Transnationally mobile youth and their transitions to adulthood
Apps close October 24th
For details, visit www.deakin.edu.au/study/fees-a...
Led by TASA members Anita Harris and Loretta Baldassar
Transnationally mobile youth and their transitions to adulthood
Apps close October 24th
For details, visit www.deakin.edu.au/study/fees-a...
www.deakin.edu.au
October 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
**2 PhD Opps.**
Led by TASA members Anita Harris and Loretta Baldassar
Transnationally mobile youth and their transitions to adulthood
Apps close October 24th
For details, visit www.deakin.edu.au/study/fees-a...
Led by TASA members Anita Harris and Loretta Baldassar
Transnationally mobile youth and their transitions to adulthood
Apps close October 24th
For details, visit www.deakin.edu.au/study/fees-a...
Please sign. Help us get to 3000 signatures
Please help us save the discipline of sociology at Macquarie University www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...
SAVE SOCIOLOGY AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY
We urge Macquarie University management to reverse this decision and preserve the vital disciplines of Sociology and Politics.
Sociology has a key place in the social sciences as the broadest and mos...
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October 16, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Please sign. Help us get to 3000 signatures
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📰BREAKING📰
SafeWork NSW has stepped in to force Macquarie University to make work health and safety improvements to their consultation on proposed workplace changes.
Thanks to NTEU members at MQ who spoke out about the harm of workplace changes to staff mental health and wellbeing.
SafeWork NSW has stepped in to force Macquarie University to make work health and safety improvements to their consultation on proposed workplace changes.
Thanks to NTEU members at MQ who spoke out about the harm of workplace changes to staff mental health and wellbeing.
October 2, 2025 at 5:33 AM
📰BREAKING📰
SafeWork NSW has stepped in to force Macquarie University to make work health and safety improvements to their consultation on proposed workplace changes.
Thanks to NTEU members at MQ who spoke out about the harm of workplace changes to staff mental health and wellbeing.
SafeWork NSW has stepped in to force Macquarie University to make work health and safety improvements to their consultation on proposed workplace changes.
Thanks to NTEU members at MQ who spoke out about the harm of workplace changes to staff mental health and wellbeing.
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Finally, if you work, study or care about the university sector, write to the Minister Jason Clare, write to chair of the Inquiry Senator Marielle Smith and urge them to act.
www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and...
www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and...
Hon Jason Clare MP
Parliamentarian
www.aph.gov.au
September 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Finally, if you work, study or care about the university sector, write to the Minister Jason Clare, write to chair of the Inquiry Senator Marielle Smith and urge them to act.
www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and...
www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and...
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In this week's DS episode @jennaprice.bsky.social, Sinclair Davidson, Mark and I discuss the governance crisis in the Australian University sector.
It is telling when folk from across the political spectrum agree on the problem and most of the solution
A thread🧵
In this week's DS episode @jennaprice.bsky.social, Sinclair Davidson, Mark and I discuss the governance crisis in the Australian University sector.
It is telling when folk from across the political spectrum agree on the problem and most of the solution
A thread🧵
Universities in crisis
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September 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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In this week's DS episode @jennaprice.bsky.social, Sinclair Davidson, Mark and I discuss the governance crisis in the Australian University sector.
It is telling when folk from across the political spectrum agree on the problem and most of the solution
A thread🧵
In this week's DS episode @jennaprice.bsky.social, Sinclair Davidson, Mark and I discuss the governance crisis in the Australian University sector.
It is telling when folk from across the political spectrum agree on the problem and most of the solution
A thread🧵
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✨️Restructures!✨️
Six internationally recognised marine scientists who are researching South Australia's toxic algal bloom are set to lose their jobs at Flinders University, the ABC understands.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Flinders University jobs under threat as news of proposed restructure spreads
Six internationally recognised marine scientists who are researching South Australia's toxic algal bloom are set to lose their jobs at Flinders University, the ABC understands.
www.abc.net.au
September 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
✨️Restructures!✨️
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University restructures often follow a similar playbook.
If restructures are based on UniForum data, then its blind spots and biases may be hardwiring a flawed, one-size-fits-all model of governance across the sector — a model that undermines educational quality and institutional diversity.
If restructures are based on UniForum data, then its blind spots and biases may be hardwiring a flawed, one-size-fits-all model of governance across the sector — a model that undermines educational quality and institutional diversity.
September 17, 2025 at 5:57 AM
University restructures often follow a similar playbook.
If restructures are based on UniForum data, then its blind spots and biases may be hardwiring a flawed, one-size-fits-all model of governance across the sector — a model that undermines educational quality and institutional diversity.
If restructures are based on UniForum data, then its blind spots and biases may be hardwiring a flawed, one-size-fits-all model of governance across the sector — a model that undermines educational quality and institutional diversity.
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this is a very sharp piece on why it makes no sense to run universities as if they are businesses. They're not businesses.
www.afr.com/work-and-car...
www.afr.com/work-and-car...
September 22, 2025 at 7:09 AM
this is a very sharp piece on why it makes no sense to run universities as if they are businesses. They're not businesses.
www.afr.com/work-and-car...
www.afr.com/work-and-car...
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‘The philosopher Judith Butler and the Middle East historian Ussama Makdisi are perhaps the only two notified people who have spoken publicly about the email they received. Butler sees the silence of the others as a sign of fear.’
@mashagessen.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...
@mashagessen.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...
Opinion | I Look at This Country and I See a Stranger
www.nytimes.com
September 21, 2025 at 10:45 AM
‘The philosopher Judith Butler and the Middle East historian Ussama Makdisi are perhaps the only two notified people who have spoken publicly about the email they received. Butler sees the silence of the others as a sign of fear.’
@mashagessen.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...
@mashagessen.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...
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Private consultants are taking control of how public universities are evaluated and run.
My submission to the Senate university governance inquiry raises concerns about the impact of Nous Group and their dodgy UniForum data on our universities.
www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor...
A thread
My submission to the Senate university governance inquiry raises concerns about the impact of Nous Group and their dodgy UniForum data on our universities.
www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor...
A thread
September 17, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Private consultants are taking control of how public universities are evaluated and run.
My submission to the Senate university governance inquiry raises concerns about the impact of Nous Group and their dodgy UniForum data on our universities.
www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor...
A thread
My submission to the Senate university governance inquiry raises concerns about the impact of Nous Group and their dodgy UniForum data on our universities.
www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor...
A thread
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Schubert's Productivity - remastered from an old joke
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Schubert's Productivity - remastered from an old joke.
September 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Schubert's Productivity - remastered from an old joke
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The next part in my series on the hideous mess in Australian universities. I'm in despair. www.smh.com.au/national/uni...
University cannot serve this generation as it did mine – and I’m in grief
Australia’s forlorn tertiary education system needs a massive overhaul, as do the people running it.
www.smh.com.au
September 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The next part in my series on the hideous mess in Australian universities. I'm in despair. www.smh.com.au/national/uni...
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I interviewed historian @emmashortis.bsky.social on the particulars of American fascism, comparisons with Nazism, the global crisis of democracy, and Australia's options. None of this is particularly cheery stuff, but you might find some clarity in it.
youtu.be/MM6cXjTBJ0U?...
youtu.be/MM6cXjTBJ0U?...
Historian Emma Shortis on American fascism and Australia's options
YouTube video by The Sunday Shot
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September 21, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I interviewed historian @emmashortis.bsky.social on the particulars of American fascism, comparisons with Nazism, the global crisis of democracy, and Australia's options. None of this is particularly cheery stuff, but you might find some clarity in it.
youtu.be/MM6cXjTBJ0U?...
youtu.be/MM6cXjTBJ0U?...
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September 20, 2025 at 12:42 AM
1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social
'Opaque, conflicted, overpaid' uni governance' is way too polite.
September 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
'Opaque, conflicted, overpaid' uni governance' is way too polite.