Carmel Pascale
@carmelpascale.bsky.social
Cultural historian and Visiting Research Fellow at Adelaide Uni - 20th century Australian nationalism, settler colonialism, ideas of Britishness and imperialism, federation, commemoration.
I can only feel relief at tonight's result. But there's something very wrong with a voting sysyem where you can win 87 out of 151 seats off a 35% primary vote. We need proportional representation and real coalition governments.
May 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I can only feel relief at tonight's result. But there's something very wrong with a voting sysyem where you can win 87 out of 151 seats off a 35% primary vote. We need proportional representation and real coalition governments.
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🙋♀️ in @jas-jozstudies.bsky.social on the awkwardness of #AUKUS and the classic Australian kneejerk of clinging to the UK to make all this *waves hands* less frightening…
…not that it helps us 😬
…not that it helps us 😬
Some 49.1 weekend reading: Martin Hobbs examines Australia's #AUKUS relationship through the lens of imperial nostalgia, arguing that in a time of insecurity around the US, it returns to the UK.
#DefenceStudies #OzStudies #InternationalRelations
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#DefenceStudies #OzStudies #InternationalRelations
tinyurl.com/mpbm3h7t
March 7, 2025 at 4:24 AM
🙋♀️ in @jas-jozstudies.bsky.social on the awkwardness of #AUKUS and the classic Australian kneejerk of clinging to the UK to make all this *waves hands* less frightening…
…not that it helps us 😬
…not that it helps us 😬