Courtney Pedersen
@visualdoc.bsky.social
art prole, academic, 🏴
I pay my respect to the Turrbal, Yugara, and Jagera owners of the lands where I live and work.
I pay my respect to the Turrbal, Yugara, and Jagera owners of the lands where I live and work.
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Business groups are calling for the government to overhaul the tax system. Excellent!
As @grogsgamut.bsky.social writes, we have some ideas...
australiainstitute.org.au/post/busines...
As @grogsgamut.bsky.social writes, we have some ideas...
australiainstitute.org.au/post/busines...
May 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Business groups are calling for the government to overhaul the tax system. Excellent!
As @grogsgamut.bsky.social writes, we have some ideas...
australiainstitute.org.au/post/busines...
As @grogsgamut.bsky.social writes, we have some ideas...
australiainstitute.org.au/post/busines...
May 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Capitalism’s 'talent' was making us believe we are isolated individuals, threatened by others. We must dismantle this illusion. Others are not our enemies; they are our equals. Dismantling capitalism starts by recognizing our shared humanity and rejecting division. ⚡🏴
April 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Capitalism’s 'talent' was making us believe we are isolated individuals, threatened by others. We must dismantle this illusion. Others are not our enemies; they are our equals. Dismantling capitalism starts by recognizing our shared humanity and rejecting division. ⚡🏴
I think we really need to encourage wider use of the term ‘tyranny’ again.
See it, name it, shame it.
See it, name it, shame it.
March 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I think we really need to encourage wider use of the term ‘tyranny’ again.
See it, name it, shame it.
See it, name it, shame it.
Pics from last night’s #ClimateOfViolence intense performance and casual artist talk at Outerspace in Brisbane 🏳️⚧️ @amysargeant.bsky.social @lvndr-nixon.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Pics from last night’s #ClimateOfViolence intense performance and casual artist talk at Outerspace in Brisbane 🏳️⚧️ @amysargeant.bsky.social @lvndr-nixon.bsky.social
Cute terms I’ve heard used today to describe the brutal seas off the coast right now: ‘bit lumpy’, ‘bit woolly’ #TropicalCycloneAlfred
March 6, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Cute terms I’ve heard used today to describe the brutal seas off the coast right now: ‘bit lumpy’, ‘bit woolly’ #TropicalCycloneAlfred
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Trump just terminated the Chair of the Kennedy Center and has installed himself as the new chair.
He says he will now be dictating the institution’s “art and culture” and says it “must reflect” what he chooses.
He says he will now be dictating the institution’s “art and culture” and says it “must reflect” what he chooses.
February 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Trump just terminated the Chair of the Kennedy Center and has installed himself as the new chair.
He says he will now be dictating the institution’s “art and culture” and says it “must reflect” what he chooses.
He says he will now be dictating the institution’s “art and culture” and says it “must reflect” what he chooses.
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Too many media failing the challenge to write about Faithfull without leading with Jagger.
Guardian UK does well:
"Marianne Faithfull, whose six-decade career marked her out as one of the UK’s most versatile and characterful singer-songwriters, has died aged 78"
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Guardian UK does well:
"Marianne Faithfull, whose six-decade career marked her out as one of the UK’s most versatile and characterful singer-songwriters, has died aged 78"
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Marianne Faithfull, singular icon of British pop, dies aged 78
Singer and actor overcame drug addiction and homelessness to collaborate with everyone from the Rolling Stones and Metallica to Jean-Luc Godard
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Too many media failing the challenge to write about Faithfull without leading with Jagger.
Guardian UK does well:
"Marianne Faithfull, whose six-decade career marked her out as one of the UK’s most versatile and characterful singer-songwriters, has died aged 78"
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Guardian UK does well:
"Marianne Faithfull, whose six-decade career marked her out as one of the UK’s most versatile and characterful singer-songwriters, has died aged 78"
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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There is a growing disparity between public and private school funding, with new analysis revealing that taxpayers are helping fund lavish private school facilities and the high salaries of private school principals.
@mhharrington.bsky.social #auspol
@mhharrington.bsky.social #auspol
Taxpayers Subsidising Private School Luxuries
As Australia enters a new school year, a submission from The Australia Institute highlights the growing disparity between public and private school
australiainstitute.org.au
January 30, 2025 at 12:06 AM
There is a growing disparity between public and private school funding, with new analysis revealing that taxpayers are helping fund lavish private school facilities and the high salaries of private school principals.
@mhharrington.bsky.social #auspol
@mhharrington.bsky.social #auspol
As universities have been driven to a precipice across the UK, US and Australia, I want to know what governments of all complexions expect to achieve?
January 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
As universities have been driven to a precipice across the UK, US and Australia, I want to know what governments of all complexions expect to achieve?
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Holy moly. I'm trying to write an academic paper, and nearly every application I'm using is not only offering Generative AI as an option for writing, but *pushing it* -- pervading the design to the point where a simple misclick would make my content AI-generated. Here's why that's a problem. 🧵
January 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Holy moly. I'm trying to write an academic paper, and nearly every application I'm using is not only offering Generative AI as an option for writing, but *pushing it* -- pervading the design to the point where a simple misclick would make my content AI-generated. Here's why that's a problem. 🧵
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Great article from our research manager @mhharrington.bsky.social about the benefits of investment in the arts, and some cracker ideas for how to do it:
Art is inspiration. Art is transformation. An investment in art is an investment in a healthy, coherent society: www.canberratimes.com.au/story/887374...
Belt it out at the top of your lungs, here's how to boost our 'souls'
Yes, part of it is arguing that Frenzal Rhomb is actually art.
www.canberratimes.com.au
January 27, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Great article from our research manager @mhharrington.bsky.social about the benefits of investment in the arts, and some cracker ideas for how to do it:
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“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
January 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
Congratulations to @leesawatego.bsky.social – as fraught and grim as 26 January is, it's still wonderful to see someone acknowledged for their fantastic work.
January 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Congratulations to @leesawatego.bsky.social – as fraught and grim as 26 January is, it's still wonderful to see someone acknowledged for their fantastic work.
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Today is not a day to celebrate.
We will be donating to paytherent.net.au.
We will be donating to paytherent.net.au.
Pay The Rent | Saying Sorry Isn't Enough
paytherent.net.au
January 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Today is not a day to celebrate.
We will be donating to paytherent.net.au.
We will be donating to paytherent.net.au.
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Penguin Random House buys famous indie publisher Text. Live Nation decides to shut down Splendour in the Grass for another year. Australia’s cultural sector is being bought up by foreign multinationals and we’re just sitting around, watching
January 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Penguin Random House buys famous indie publisher Text. Live Nation decides to shut down Splendour in the Grass for another year. Australia’s cultural sector is being bought up by foreign multinationals and we’re just sitting around, watching
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Months after the bitter warehouse strike, Woolworths has started quietly firing workers who participated in the pickets www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Woolworths sacks two workers and investigates dozens over alleged conduct during 17-day strike
Letters seen by Guardian Australia focus on alleged pickets on 26 November outside warehouses that were not then on strike
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Months after the bitter warehouse strike, Woolworths has started quietly firing workers who participated in the pickets www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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The rules, if you are keeping track:
If a single left activist anywhere in the world says "defund the police," it becomes the official position of the Democratic Party, now and forever.
If the president's top surrogate repeatedly sieg-heils on stage, it's ambiguous, impossible to interpret.
If a single left activist anywhere in the world says "defund the police," it becomes the official position of the Democratic Party, now and forever.
If the president's top surrogate repeatedly sieg-heils on stage, it's ambiguous, impossible to interpret.
January 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The rules, if you are keeping track:
If a single left activist anywhere in the world says "defund the police," it becomes the official position of the Democratic Party, now and forever.
If the president's top surrogate repeatedly sieg-heils on stage, it's ambiguous, impossible to interpret.
If a single left activist anywhere in the world says "defund the police," it becomes the official position of the Democratic Party, now and forever.
If the president's top surrogate repeatedly sieg-heils on stage, it's ambiguous, impossible to interpret.
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The new public square is fact-free social media – and it couldn’t come at a worse time for Australia | Ed Coper
The new public square is fact-free social media – and it couldn’t come at a worse time for Australia | Ed Coper
Navigating the next 100 days of Australian politics online will require sharp teeth to discern fact from fiction
I outsmarted and shamed a nice elderly man named Leo last night, who was only trying to help me. Leo’s a career coach with a trimmed white…
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The new public square is fact-free social media – and it couldn’t come at a worse time for Australia | Ed Coper
2025 Exhibition Program — Outer Space
So many good things to love in the main gallery and facade programs this year! Including Amy Sargeant and Arianna Nixon, Dean Ansell, Rae Haynes, Dylan Bolger, Paean Sarker, Pamela See — and so many more
So many good things to love in the main gallery and facade programs this year! Including Amy Sargeant and Arianna Nixon, Dean Ansell, Rae Haynes, Dylan Bolger, Paean Sarker, Pamela See — and so many more
January 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
2025 Exhibition Program — Outer Space
So many good things to love in the main gallery and facade programs this year! Including Amy Sargeant and Arianna Nixon, Dean Ansell, Rae Haynes, Dylan Bolger, Paean Sarker, Pamela See — and so many more
So many good things to love in the main gallery and facade programs this year! Including Amy Sargeant and Arianna Nixon, Dean Ansell, Rae Haynes, Dylan Bolger, Paean Sarker, Pamela See — and so many more
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I have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Academic Work Tracker Template v2.2 (2025)
docs.google.com
December 31, 2024 at 2:51 AM
I have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community.
Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.
Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.
December 3, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community.
Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.
Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.
PLEASE SHARE with your #ArtHistory networks:
The University of Queensland is accepting applications for a Level B/C/D Art History position, open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants only, closing 22 December urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
The University of Queensland is accepting applications for a Level B/C/D Art History position, open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants only, closing 22 December urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Lecturer, S/Lecturer, A/Professor-Art History: Identified (s25) Job in St Lucia, Brisbane QLD - SEEK
Seeking an experienced academic in the area of Art History to grow your profile in teaching, research and service and engagement.
urldefense.com
November 26, 2024 at 5:32 AM
PLEASE SHARE with your #ArtHistory networks:
The University of Queensland is accepting applications for a Level B/C/D Art History position, open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants only, closing 22 December urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
The University of Queensland is accepting applications for a Level B/C/D Art History position, open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants only, closing 22 December urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...