Alistair Sisson
@alistairsisson.bsky.social
cities & housing • Gadigal/Wangal land • he/him
https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/alistair-sisson
https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/alistair-sisson
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Great piece from my colleague @alistairsisson.bsky.social exploring the implications of our voter data on the ##HousingCrisis
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
As the home ownership dream fades, Australians may be open to a frank conversation about house prices
One of the most basic axioms in Australian politics is that voters support rising house prices. John Howard expressed this axiom when he infamously remarked that no one had ever told him “I'm angry wi...
johnmenadue.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Great piece from my colleague @alistairsisson.bsky.social exploring the implications of our voter data on the ##HousingCrisis
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
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What do voters think about the housing crisis? Just out in @aunz.theconversation.com our piece (w @shaunwilson.bsky.social @alistairsisson.bsky.social Kristian Ruming and Adam Stebbing) for MQ's Housing and Urban Research Centre exploring #Housing attitudes
theconversation.com/most-austral...
theconversation.com/most-austral...
Most Australians agree there’s a housing crisis. But they differ on what’s causing it – and how to fix it
New research shows older voters believe immigration is crunching housing supply, while young voters blame high interest rates and low wage growth.
theconversation.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
What do voters think about the housing crisis? Just out in @aunz.theconversation.com our piece (w @shaunwilson.bsky.social @alistairsisson.bsky.social Kristian Ruming and Adam Stebbing) for MQ's Housing and Urban Research Centre exploring #Housing attitudes
theconversation.com/most-austral...
theconversation.com/most-austral...
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This is a ridiculous and damaging move from the ARC which should cause all academics here and abroad substantial concern. www.afr.com/policy/healt...
Research funding body suspends grant to pro-Palestinian academic
Controversial academic Randa Abdel-Fattah, who has said Zionists “have no claim or right to cultural safety”, has had her $870,000 research grant suspended.
www.afr.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:31 AM
This is a ridiculous and damaging move from the ARC which should cause all academics here and abroad substantial concern. www.afr.com/policy/healt...
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Please sign this letter in support of Palestinian academic Dr Randa Abdel Fattah. The attacks on her are also attacks on our basic rights to academic freedom
Open letter in solidarity with Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah and condemning the latest attempt to silence her — please sign & share docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open Letter on Academic Freedom
We, the undersigned, write to express our condemnation of the decision by the Education Minister Jason Clare to request the Australian Research Council (ARC) to investigate the Future Fellowship of M...
docs.google.com
February 8, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Please sign this letter in support of Palestinian academic Dr Randa Abdel Fattah. The attacks on her are also attacks on our basic rights to academic freedom
Open letter in solidarity with Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah and condemning the latest attempt to silence her — please sign & share docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open Letter on Academic Freedom
We, the undersigned, write to express our condemnation of the decision by the Education Minister Jason Clare to request the Australian Research Council (ARC) to investigate the Future Fellowship of M...
docs.google.com
February 8, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Open letter in solidarity with Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah and condemning the latest attempt to silence her — please sign & share docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Incarceration doesn't make for safer communities - this carceral "common sense" needs critical examination so we can understand what prisons are really for, & the impact they really have, in the colony
Thanks @emmakrussell.bsky.social @francismarkham.work @blatmannaama.bsky.social Andrew Burridge!
Thanks @emmakrussell.bsky.social @francismarkham.work @blatmannaama.bsky.social Andrew Burridge!
Research shows 37 new prisons have been built in Australia since 2000. But the evidence shows increased incarceration doesn’t help reduce crime.
Prisons don’t create safer communities, so why is Australia spending billions on building them?
theconversation.com
January 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Incarceration doesn't make for safer communities - this carceral "common sense" needs critical examination so we can understand what prisons are really for, & the impact they really have, in the colony
Thanks @emmakrussell.bsky.social @francismarkham.work @blatmannaama.bsky.social Andrew Burridge!
Thanks @emmakrussell.bsky.social @francismarkham.work @blatmannaama.bsky.social Andrew Burridge!
Came to Brian Howe’s archives to read housing stuff, stayed for his hatred of cars
December 11, 2024 at 1:31 AM
Came to Brian Howe’s archives to read housing stuff, stayed for his hatred of cars
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Proud to be part of team who has been working on this: “Palestine: Spaces and Politics”. An introductory curriculum to Palestine in context, using a spatial lens.
Most resources are open access, prioritizing Palestinian authors.
#menasky, #geosky
palestine.araburbanism.com
Palestine: Spaces and Politics
Introductory Curriculum
palestine.araburbanism.com
November 15, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Proud to be part of team who has been working on this: “Palestine: Spaces and Politics”. An introductory curriculum to Palestine in context, using a spatial lens.
Most resources are open access, prioritizing Palestinian authors.
#menasky, #geosky
palestine.araburbanism.com
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"Boycotts are effective, and ending complicity is a profound ethical obligation that Palestinians have asked us to fulfill."
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson & Robyn Maynard on the "largest cultural boycott from writers since the South African anti-apartheid movement"
breachmedia.ca/why-we-boyco...
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson & Robyn Maynard on the "largest cultural boycott from writers since the South African anti-apartheid movement"
breachmedia.ca/why-we-boyco...
Why we boycott Israel: ‘One day everyone will have always been against this’ ⋆ The Breach
More than 6,000 literary workers have pledged to stop working with institutions that support the horrors in Gaza
breachmedia.ca
November 19, 2024 at 7:11 PM
"Boycotts are effective, and ending complicity is a profound ethical obligation that Palestinians have asked us to fulfill."
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson & Robyn Maynard on the "largest cultural boycott from writers since the South African anti-apartheid movement"
breachmedia.ca/why-we-boyco...
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson & Robyn Maynard on the "largest cultural boycott from writers since the South African anti-apartheid movement"
breachmedia.ca/why-we-boyco...