Marija Taflaga
@marijataflaga.bsky.social
Political Scientist at The Australian National University.
Political Tragic, co-host of the Democracy Sausage podcast
Political Tragic, co-host of the Democracy Sausage podcast
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Marija Taflaga
@marijataflaga.bsky.social
· Sep 25
Universities in crisis
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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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How did Whitlam's government profoundly change Australia in less than three years despite being shambolic and scandal-prone?
#AUListen #DemocracySausage The vista of the new 🎙️Troy Bramston @markgkenny.bsky.social @marijataflaga.bsky.social
Listen Now ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra....
#AUListen #DemocracySausage The vista of the new 🎙️Troy Bramston @markgkenny.bsky.social @marijataflaga.bsky.social
Listen Now ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra....
November 6, 2025 at 5:46 AM
How did Whitlam's government profoundly change Australia in less than three years despite being shambolic and scandal-prone?
#AUListen #DemocracySausage The vista of the new 🎙️Troy Bramston @markgkenny.bsky.social @marijataflaga.bsky.social
Listen Now ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra....
#AUListen #DemocracySausage The vista of the new 🎙️Troy Bramston @markgkenny.bsky.social @marijataflaga.bsky.social
Listen Now ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra....
look over there!
November 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
look over there!
is anyone actually surprised?
Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty
Tenure-track faculty are up to 25 times more likely to have a parent with a Ph.D. Moreover, this rate nearly doubles at prestigious universities and is stable across the past 50 years.
#AcademicSky
Tenure-track faculty are up to 25 times more likely to have a parent with a Ph.D. Moreover, this rate nearly doubles at prestigious universities and is stable across the past 50 years.
#AcademicSky
Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty - Nature Human Behaviour
Studying socioeconomic backgrounds and intergenerational transmission in the US academia, Morgan et al. find that faculty have a parent with a Ph.D. degree a striking 25 times more often than the gene...
www.nature.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:35 AM
is anyone actually surprised?
it's only been more than three decades Source: The Guardian
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search.app/W918U
Australian governments ‘turning their backs’ on soaring Indigenous incarceration, former minister says
Robert Tickner says there are ‘no excuses for the failure to implement’ recommendations from the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody
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November 2, 2025 at 2:34 AM
it's only been more than three decades Source: The Guardian
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search.app/W918U
I don't envy this man's job
November 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I don't envy this man's job
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"For months we have been repeating the same cycle....We’re like high-school seniors rehashing a first date."
Exactly. Just move on.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Exactly. Just move on.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: The art of no deal: Canada’s only winning move is not to play
The only objective in these negotiations should be to keep them going, for as long as we can
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"For months we have been repeating the same cycle....We’re like high-school seniors rehashing a first date."
Exactly. Just move on.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Exactly. Just move on.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Colour me Janan. (www.ft.com/content/00e9...)
October 30, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Colour me Janan. (www.ft.com/content/00e9...)
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The dishonesty around the use of Robodebt in prosecuting the government’s Freedom of Information secrecy drive is galling in the extreme. I set out some facts that deflate the specious claims being used as cover. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
‘Absurdist leaps of logic’: Robodebt misused in FOI reforms
I am furious. Angry, certainly, about the federal government’s proposed freedom of information laws, which mock the very idea of transparency, but seething especially about the justification for them,...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
October 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The dishonesty around the use of Robodebt in prosecuting the government’s Freedom of Information secrecy drive is galling in the extreme. I set out some facts that deflate the specious claims being used as cover. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
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Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
October 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
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Fuel problems in russia are getting bigger and bigger🔥🔥
October 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Fuel problems in russia are getting bigger and bigger🔥🔥
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It was two OUP books.
October 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It was two OUP books.
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Fascinating: "Declining Fertility in Wealthy Nations" (AKA the Baby Bust that nobody anywhere seems to be able to do much about). www.nber.org/digest/20251...
October 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Fascinating: "Declining Fertility in Wealthy Nations" (AKA the Baby Bust that nobody anywhere seems to be able to do much about). www.nber.org/digest/20251...
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“Characterising [Julie Bishop’s] leadership as "chaotic", Mr Sheldon asked if she would apologise for several governance failures which he described as "an absolute shemozzle and ... an unmitigated stuff-up".”
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/908613...
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/908613...
'Absolute shemozzle': embattled ANU head faces probe
Foreign minister-turned-chancellor of a top-tier university Julie Bishop has faced senators to discuss governance issues that have plagued...
www.canberratimes.com.au
October 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
“Characterising [Julie Bishop’s] leadership as "chaotic", Mr Sheldon asked if she would apologise for several governance failures which he described as "an absolute shemozzle and ... an unmitigated stuff-up".”
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/908613...
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/908613...
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“Ms Bishop had to take the exact dollar figure on notice, but said the “resignation package was what she was entitled to under the contract of engagement as vice-chancellor.”
Ms Bishop said Prof. Bell was paid part of her salary for a period of time rather than giving notice.”
tinyurl.com/4ma8ujkr
Ms Bishop said Prof. Bell was paid part of her salary for a period of time rather than giving notice.”
tinyurl.com/4ma8ujkr
Lavish ANU Perth office to close, Bishop reveals at Senate estimates
Rebekah Brown tried to change Renew ANU but didn't have the authority, Senate estimates hears.
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October 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
“Ms Bishop had to take the exact dollar figure on notice, but said the “resignation package was what she was entitled to under the contract of engagement as vice-chancellor.”
Ms Bishop said Prof. Bell was paid part of her salary for a period of time rather than giving notice.”
tinyurl.com/4ma8ujkr
Ms Bishop said Prof. Bell was paid part of her salary for a period of time rather than giving notice.”
tinyurl.com/4ma8ujkr
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VCs are “not interchangeable” with people who run banks or mining companies ... “Yet the current approach prices them as though they could walk into the C-suite of a listed company – a fiction that drives pay packages ever higher.”
@marijataflaga.bsky.social and @francismarkham.bsky.social
@marijataflaga.bsky.social and @francismarkham.bsky.social
Institutional autonomy ‘not threatened’ by proposal to more than halve executive pay, Australian academics say, as universities insist councils should maintain control
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/regulate-inflated-v-c-salaries-australian-senators-told
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/regulate-inflated-v-c-salaries-australian-senators-told
October 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
VCs are “not interchangeable” with people who run banks or mining companies ... “Yet the current approach prices them as though they could walk into the C-suite of a listed company – a fiction that drives pay packages ever higher.”
@marijataflaga.bsky.social and @francismarkham.bsky.social
@marijataflaga.bsky.social and @francismarkham.bsky.social
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Great paper on the state of political science osf.io/preprints/os... by @guygrossman.bsky.social et. al. We have become more diverse, more quantitative, and more collaborative.
October 7, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Great paper on the state of political science osf.io/preprints/os... by @guygrossman.bsky.social et. al. We have become more diverse, more quantitative, and more collaborative.
I mean, what the actual.....how the hell does this even happen???
October 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I mean, what the actual.....how the hell does this even happen???
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Exclusive: Anthony Albanese personally overruled a push in cabinet by then attorney-general Mark Dreyfus to give the National Anti-Corruption Commission wider discretion to hold public hearings. Jason Koutsoukis reports. satpa.pe/LIMpt0r
Exclusive: Anthony Albanese overruled push for public NACC hearings
The Saturday Paper can reveal that the prime minister and other ministers from NSW intervened in cabinet to constrain the operations of the country’s leading integrity body.
satpa.pe
October 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Exclusive: Anthony Albanese personally overruled a push in cabinet by then attorney-general Mark Dreyfus to give the National Anti-Corruption Commission wider discretion to hold public hearings. Jason Koutsoukis reports. satpa.pe/LIMpt0r
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I am running for the ANU Council. If you are a member of NTEU, please consider voting for me. Here is my platform, in brief:
I have worked in academic governance on three continents over decades, including six years in ANU College leadership.
I have worked in academic governance on three continents over decades, including six years in ANU College leadership.
September 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I am running for the ANU Council. If you are a member of NTEU, please consider voting for me. Here is my platform, in brief:
I have worked in academic governance on three continents over decades, including six years in ANU College leadership.
I have worked in academic governance on three continents over decades, including six years in ANU College leadership.