Louise Edwards
@ledw.bsky.social
Academic, Asia-China-Australia
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Gee, all those courses the Bondi shooters studied must have had a major impact… oh wait.
February 4, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Gee, all those courses the Bondi shooters studied must have had a major impact… oh wait.
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“The only priority of childcare providers should be the children in their care. They should not be distracted by the idea of keeping their shareholders happy.”
Read more here: https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/how-to-fix-australias-broken-childcare-system-so-everybody-wins/
Read more here: https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/how-to-fix-australias-broken-childcare-system-so-everybody-wins/
February 3, 2026 at 12:03 AM
“The only priority of childcare providers should be the children in their care. They should not be distracted by the idea of keeping their shareholders happy.”
Read more here: https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/how-to-fix-australias-broken-childcare-system-so-everybody-wins/
Read more here: https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/how-to-fix-australias-broken-childcare-system-so-everybody-wins/
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'Running Iris' linocut by Australian printmaker Rachel Newling #WomensArt
January 30, 2026 at 6:49 AM
'Running Iris' linocut by Australian printmaker Rachel Newling #WomensArt
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This is absolutely obscene. Tax the rich.
January 19, 2026 at 4:47 AM
This is absolutely obscene. Tax the rich.
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While we're being told there isn't enough Australian gas for Australians, Japan is making billions selling our gas to other countries!
Japan is reselling more Australian gas than is used in Victoria, NSW, QLD, Tasmania, SA, and the NT COMBINED!
@markogge.bsky.social #auspol
Japan is reselling more Australian gas than is used in Victoria, NSW, QLD, Tasmania, SA, and the NT COMBINED!
@markogge.bsky.social #auspol
January 16, 2026 at 5:07 AM
While we're being told there isn't enough Australian gas for Australians, Japan is making billions selling our gas to other countries!
Japan is reselling more Australian gas than is used in Victoria, NSW, QLD, Tasmania, SA, and the NT COMBINED!
@markogge.bsky.social #auspol
Japan is reselling more Australian gas than is used in Victoria, NSW, QLD, Tasmania, SA, and the NT COMBINED!
@markogge.bsky.social #auspol
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“The fascists did break down Varoufakis’s door. They did take his father, and countless more, never to be seen again. Now, they are knocking on ours.” My response to Raise Your Soul by @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social in the latest Australian Book Review: www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...
Esther Anatolitis reviews ‘Raise Your Soul: A personal history of resistance’ by Yanis Varoufakis
Things can turn very quickly, my mother says. Be careful who you associate with. Με όλους και με κανέναν. With everyone and with no one. Watch what you do and what you say because they’re always watch...
www.australianbookreview.com.au
January 7, 2026 at 1:30 PM
“The fascists did break down Varoufakis’s door. They did take his father, and countless more, never to be seen again. Now, they are knocking on ours.” My response to Raise Your Soul by @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social in the latest Australian Book Review: www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...
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Trump is destroying the rules of international behaviour. Australia can – and must – act now | Allan Behm
Trump is destroying the rules of international behaviour. Australia can – and must – act now | Allan Behm
Australia has a long history of diplomacy and peacekeeping when things go pear-shaped. We need to saddle up again
Donald Trump has commanded a precision military operation against a neighbour he didn’t like. Venezuela’s president was abducted and is now in detention from which he is unlikely to emerge.
But Trump’s short-term tactical success has come at the expense of the complete destruction of the rules of international behaviour. Things were already bad. They have now gone pear-shaped. Global lawlessness prevails. That’s a massive price for the international community to pay, since it licenses other powers – Russia and China in particular – to act in the same way. Russia has already. And China may well be tempted to. Trump’s determination to dominate the western hemisphere implicitly invites Xi Jinping to do the same in the eastern hemisphere. And it confirms the licence already extended by the US to Israel. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Trump is destroying the rules of international behaviour. Australia can – and must – act now | Allan Behm
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As a former Director of Adelaide Writers' Week I am appalled that the Adelaide Festival Board has rescinded Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's invitation to the 2026 AWW, explicitly linking its decision to the shattering crimes in Bondi.
A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.
A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.
January 8, 2026 at 4:50 AM
As a former Director of Adelaide Writers' Week I am appalled that the Adelaide Festival Board has rescinded Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's invitation to the 2026 AWW, explicitly linking its decision to the shattering crimes in Bondi.
A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.
A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.
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Embroidery by the first UK hunger striking suffragette, Scottish artist Marion Wallace Dunlop (1864-1942) #womensart
January 7, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Embroidery by the first UK hunger striking suffragette, Scottish artist Marion Wallace Dunlop (1864-1942) #womensart
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Racism is rampant in our newsfeeds, comment sections and online spaces.
If you see racism on social media or online, don’t just keep scrolling: take action! Screenshot and report it using the Call It Out mobile or web App, paper or digital forms, or by phone.
For more info visit callitout.com.au
If you see racism on social media or online, don’t just keep scrolling: take action! Screenshot and report it using the Call It Out mobile or web App, paper or digital forms, or by phone.
For more info visit callitout.com.au
January 6, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Racism is rampant in our newsfeeds, comment sections and online spaces.
If you see racism on social media or online, don’t just keep scrolling: take action! Screenshot and report it using the Call It Out mobile or web App, paper or digital forms, or by phone.
For more info visit callitout.com.au
If you see racism on social media or online, don’t just keep scrolling: take action! Screenshot and report it using the Call It Out mobile or web App, paper or digital forms, or by phone.
For more info visit callitout.com.au
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Completely unsurprising that the Ley Opposition does not consider anti-LGBTIQ+ hatred (or other forms of prejudice like ableism or misogyny) to be as serious, or worthy of a response, as racial and (some forms of) religious hatred.
#auslaw #auspol
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
#auslaw #auspol
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Coalition doesn’t ‘need to see’ sexuality protections in hate speech reforms, says Ley
The opposition leader says reforms to the country’s vilification laws must be focused solely on Islamic extremism and antisemitism.
www.smh.com.au
January 7, 2026 at 5:51 AM
Completely unsurprising that the Ley Opposition does not consider anti-LGBTIQ+ hatred (or other forms of prejudice like ableism or misogyny) to be as serious, or worthy of a response, as racial and (some forms of) religious hatred.
#auslaw #auspol
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
#auslaw #auspol
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Is the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme facilitating modern slavery?
@mhharrington.bsky.social speaks to experts, community leaders & ni-Vanuatu former PALM workers in the first episode of this four-part mini-series on the guestworker scheme. #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/4sr1vbV
@mhharrington.bsky.social speaks to experts, community leaders & ni-Vanuatu former PALM workers in the first episode of this four-part mini-series on the guestworker scheme. #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/4sr1vbV
January 6, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Is the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme facilitating modern slavery?
@mhharrington.bsky.social speaks to experts, community leaders & ni-Vanuatu former PALM workers in the first episode of this four-part mini-series on the guestworker scheme. #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/4sr1vbV
@mhharrington.bsky.social speaks to experts, community leaders & ni-Vanuatu former PALM workers in the first episode of this four-part mini-series on the guestworker scheme. #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/4sr1vbV
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Precisely. No-one is telling the sotry of pre-Chavez. Nor of the relentless US sanctions on Venezuela; nor of the platforming of Venezuelan wealthy elites complaining.
January 7, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Precisely. No-one is telling the sotry of pre-Chavez. Nor of the relentless US sanctions on Venezuela; nor of the platforming of Venezuelan wealthy elites complaining.
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In 1887, British forces kidnapped & exiled the King of Opobo in today’s Nigeria. British Palm oil traders had persuaded the government that the tariffs he imposed restricted their profits. It was a milestone in the Scramble for Africa and indirect rule by Britain.
alanlester.co.uk/blog/antisla...
alanlester.co.uk/blog/antisla...
Antislavery and the Original ‘Scramble for Africa’, 1807-1879
Keynote Lecture for 140 Years Beyond the Berlin Conference, Africa Centre and SOAS Friday 12 December and Saturday 13 December 2025 Alan Lester Most British imperial historians have tended t…
alanlester.co.uk
January 4, 2026 at 8:34 AM
In 1887, British forces kidnapped & exiled the King of Opobo in today’s Nigeria. British Palm oil traders had persuaded the government that the tariffs he imposed restricted their profits. It was a milestone in the Scramble for Africa and indirect rule by Britain.
alanlester.co.uk/blog/antisla...
alanlester.co.uk/blog/antisla...
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#OtD 31 Dec 1918 radical doctor, lesbian, @IWW supporter and abortion provider, Marie Equi, was found guilty of sedition in the US for unfurling an anti-war banner. Sentenced to three years in San Quentin prison, she served one and a half. More info: workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/02/e...
December 31, 2025 at 5:55 AM
#OtD 31 Dec 1918 radical doctor, lesbian, @IWW supporter and abortion provider, Marie Equi, was found guilty of sedition in the US for unfurling an anti-war banner. Sentenced to three years in San Quentin prison, she served one and a half. More info: workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/02/e...
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Not a non-story, but keep in mind that a month of oral contraceptives usually costs between 20-150 RMB ($3 - $22) and can be bought online without a prescription and delivered free.
10-50 ($1.25 - 7.20)/dose for emergency contraception.
And 计划生育 offices seem to still send free pills and condoms.
10-50 ($1.25 - 7.20)/dose for emergency contraception.
And 计划生育 offices seem to still send free pills and condoms.
December 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Not a non-story, but keep in mind that a month of oral contraceptives usually costs between 20-150 RMB ($3 - $22) and can be bought online without a prescription and delivered free.
10-50 ($1.25 - 7.20)/dose for emergency contraception.
And 计划生育 offices seem to still send free pills and condoms.
10-50 ($1.25 - 7.20)/dose for emergency contraception.
And 计划生育 offices seem to still send free pills and condoms.
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Climate change will create jobs, but rebuilding what’s been destroyed is not progress, writes co-CEO Richard Denniss in The Point.
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
Read the full op-ed➡️ https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/251203-rebuilding-after-climate-chaos-creates-jobs-but-isnt-economic-progress
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
Read the full op-ed➡️ https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/251203-rebuilding-after-climate-chaos-creates-jobs-but-isnt-economic-progress
December 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Climate change will create jobs, but rebuilding what’s been destroyed is not progress, writes co-CEO Richard Denniss in The Point.
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
Read the full op-ed➡️ https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/251203-rebuilding-after-climate-chaos-creates-jobs-but-isnt-economic-progress
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
Read the full op-ed➡️ https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/251203-rebuilding-after-climate-chaos-creates-jobs-but-isnt-economic-progress
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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?”
“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?”
December 24, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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?”
“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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Suffragette Christmas card from the Women's Social and Political Union, 1909. UK.#Womensart
December 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Suffragette Christmas card from the Women's Social and Political Union, 1909. UK.#Womensart
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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...
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
Disinformation is for degrading the value of information, not confirming falsehoods
link.springer.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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...
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
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The ambiguous intimacy of the census: women workers sort through forms in the French census office in Paris in 1911 (Gallica, BnF) 🗃️
December 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The ambiguous intimacy of the census: women workers sort through forms in the French census office in Paris in 1911 (Gallica, BnF) 🗃️
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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.
johnmenadue.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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
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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.
johnmenadue.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
ATAR scores grab attention, but teachers remain underpaid, overburdened and taken for granted in Australia’s education system, writes Allan Patience. #auspol #education #teachers
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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.
December 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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.