Louise Edwards
@ledw.bsky.social
Academic, Asia-China-Australia
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Catch @tommcilroy.bsky.social on the ABC’s MediaLand discussing his essay in the latest Meanjin
‘“We shall all have to live with this”: the Canberra press gallery and the Dismissal’ www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... (listen from 8’40”)
‘“We shall all have to live with this”: the Canberra press gallery and the Dismissal’ www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... (listen from 8’40”)
November 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Catch @tommcilroy.bsky.social on the ABC’s MediaLand discussing his essay in the latest Meanjin
‘“We shall all have to live with this”: the Canberra press gallery and the Dismissal’ www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... (listen from 8’40”)
‘“We shall all have to live with this”: the Canberra press gallery and the Dismissal’ www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... (listen from 8’40”)
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Our journalists can still tell sharp, critical, honest stories – but they might want to break free of the editorial obsession with casting China as the eternal antagonist. #auspol #China #News Corp #Racism
When in doubt, blame China (every News Corp headline needs a villain)
If you only skimmed the headlines from News Corp, you’d be forgiven for thinking China was launching a krill-powered naval strike from Antarctica, staging an electric vehicle blitzkrieg across the out...
johnmenadue.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Great to see Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han #Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! Great comparison with Hyaeweol Choi’s Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: #Protestant #Modernity in #Colonial-Era Korea: newbooksnetwork.com/good-wife-wi...
Fang Yu Hu, "Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule" (U Washington Press, 2024) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Great to see Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han #Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! Great comparison with Hyaeweol Choi’s Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: #Protestant #Modernity in #Colonial-Era Korea: newbooksnetwork.com/good-wife-wi...
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In the final hours of our Subscriberthon, our brilliant co-editors Evelyn and Jonathan have an important message for you. Head to overland.org.au/shop or overland.org.au/donate today.
November 7, 2025 at 6:06 AM
In the final hours of our Subscriberthon, our brilliant co-editors Evelyn and Jonathan have an important message for you. Head to overland.org.au/shop or overland.org.au/donate today.
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Oooh really looking forward to this press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Politics of Common Reading
Examines the transformation of vernacular knowledge during a pivotal period of modern Chinese history, 1894 to 1954. What did common readers read in the midst of the revolutions that punctuated Chin...
press.uchicago.edu
November 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Oooh really looking forward to this press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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The arts & humanities, & languages especially, are again under attack, easy scapegoats for problems in HEIs. Nottingham prides itself on being a global university, but without language provision, that is now a problematic boast
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The arts & humanities, & languages especially, are again under attack, easy scapegoats for problems in HEIs. Nottingham prides itself on being a global university, but without language provision, that is now a problematic boast
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“We live in an oligarchy,
but with this humidity
it feels like a dictatorship.”
On Day #5 of Overland’s subscriberthon, we bring you “Force posture agreement”, a new poem by Miroslav Sandev.
overland.org.au/2025/11/forc...
but with this humidity
it feels like a dictatorship.”
On Day #5 of Overland’s subscriberthon, we bring you “Force posture agreement”, a new poem by Miroslav Sandev.
overland.org.au/2025/11/forc...
Force posture agreement - Overland literary journal
The men of Darwin have all taken their rottweilers / out for a walk at the same time. / For our protection. Like Pine Gap: / all those big white eyes that scan / the darkening horizon. / The eyes stay...
overland.org.au
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
“We live in an oligarchy,
but with this humidity
it feels like a dictatorship.”
On Day #5 of Overland’s subscriberthon, we bring you “Force posture agreement”, a new poem by Miroslav Sandev.
overland.org.au/2025/11/forc...
but with this humidity
it feels like a dictatorship.”
On Day #5 of Overland’s subscriberthon, we bring you “Force posture agreement”, a new poem by Miroslav Sandev.
overland.org.au/2025/11/forc...
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Every time I don’t think Auspol can get any stupider, I get proven wrong. A national conversation over whether the PM should apologise for wearing a t-shirt featuring a very popular band that’s been around for decades because of its name, is stupid, stupid, even for us
October 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Every time I don’t think Auspol can get any stupider, I get proven wrong. A national conversation over whether the PM should apologise for wearing a t-shirt featuring a very popular band that’s been around for decades because of its name, is stupid, stupid, even for us
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Bodleian Library, Sassoon Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History for the 2026-2027 academic year.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Bodleian Library, Sassoon Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History for the 2026-2027 academic year.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
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#OtD 28 Oct 1932 hunger marchers were attacked by police in Hyde Park, London. 3000 unemployed had set off from across the UK in Sep. Met in London by over 100k supporters, they tried to give politicians a petition of over 1 million signatures when attacked
October 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
#OtD 28 Oct 1932 hunger marchers were attacked by police in Hyde Park, London. 3000 unemployed had set off from across the UK in Sep. Met in London by over 100k supporters, they tried to give politicians a petition of over 1 million signatures when attacked
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Australian colleagues have been exploring the redirection of British slave-owners capital from the Caribbean into the colonisation of Australia. As Britons ended slavery they intensified the destruction of Indigenous societies. Latest addition from Zoe Laidlaw:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Capital, Agents and Absentees: Port Phillip Pastoralism and the Profits of Slavery
This article reveals that British-based merchants invested capital made from the Atlantic slave complex in the early Port Phillip District’s pastoral sector. It traces the capital that underpinned ...
www.tandfonline.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Australian colleagues have been exploring the redirection of British slave-owners capital from the Caribbean into the colonisation of Australia. As Britons ended slavery they intensified the destruction of Indigenous societies. Latest addition from Zoe Laidlaw:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Why on earth has it taken so long to use menstrual blood for diagnosing conditions—like the most obvious one, endometriosis—as well as investigating its generative potential with stem cells? Because “Blokes cringe if you talk about it in the pub,” say experts:
www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
‘A medical miracle’: is period blood ‘the most overlooked opportunity’ in women’s health?
Period blood has long been thought of as ‘stinky and useless’, but startups are exploring using the fluid to test for a wide range of health conditions – including difficult-to-diagnose endometriosis
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Why on earth has it taken so long to use menstrual blood for diagnosing conditions—like the most obvious one, endometriosis—as well as investigating its generative potential with stem cells? Because “Blokes cringe if you talk about it in the pub,” say experts:
www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
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@mattgrudnoff.bsky.social writing about how the "for profit" child care model has totally failed.
But then we know the for profit model of public services *always* fails, and yet....
thepoint.com.au/news/251028-...
But then we know the for profit model of public services *always* fails, and yet....
thepoint.com.au/news/251028-...
New investigation reveals that child abuse happens more frequently at for-profit childcare centres
Parents should expect that when they send their kids to childcare that they are safe and receiving top quality education and care. This is not consistent with the profit motive.
thepoint.com.au
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
@mattgrudnoff.bsky.social writing about how the "for profit" child care model has totally failed.
But then we know the for profit model of public services *always* fails, and yet....
thepoint.com.au/news/251028-...
But then we know the for profit model of public services *always* fails, and yet....
thepoint.com.au/news/251028-...
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Polio is 99% eradicated — a remarkable global achievement. But the only way we can full get rid of it is by fully funding the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. On World Polio Day, I’m joining those calling on world leaders to close the gap and finish the job. Together, we can end polio for good
October 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Polio is 99% eradicated — a remarkable global achievement. But the only way we can full get rid of it is by fully funding the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. On World Polio Day, I’m joining those calling on world leaders to close the gap and finish the job. Together, we can end polio for good
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“As Albanese once said, this should be the republic’s moment.”
Catch me at Canberra Writers Festival today and tomorrow discussing my latest book, When Australia Became a Republic
Editorial: Ambition is dead, long live the king www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2025/10/25/a... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Catch me at Canberra Writers Festival today and tomorrow discussing my latest book, When Australia Became a Republic
Editorial: Ambition is dead, long live the king www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2025/10/25/a... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Ambition is dead, long live the king
Six years ago, while he was still opposition leader, Anthony Albanese addressed the Australian Republic Movement at a dinner in the King’s Hall of Old Parliament House. You can find the speech tucked ...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
October 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
“As Albanese once said, this should be the republic’s moment.”
Catch me at Canberra Writers Festival today and tomorrow discussing my latest book, When Australia Became a Republic
Editorial: Ambition is dead, long live the king www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2025/10/25/a... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Catch me at Canberra Writers Festival today and tomorrow discussing my latest book, When Australia Became a Republic
Editorial: Ambition is dead, long live the king www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2025/10/25/a... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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We must name and face our darkness. We must repent. Our wilful blindness and historical amnesia, our refusal to be accountable to the rule of law, our belief that we have a right to use industrial violence to exert our will..@chrislynnhedges #auspol #Gaza
Chris Hedges' Edward Said memorial lecture: ‘Requiem for Gaza’
Journalist Chris Hedges delivers the 2025 Edward Said Memorial Lecture, “Requiem for Gaza” in Adelaide, Australia.
johnmenadue.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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The First Nations hold title of one sort or another to over three-quarters of the land in the north and more over the coastline. When Penny Wong became foreign minister in 2022 she declared that Indigenous rights would inform her policies. Has she told Marles? #auspol
Readying the north for war
Few Australians realise that the tropical north occupies more than 40% of our land mass while holding only 5% of the population. But governments — colonial, state and national — have speculated about its destiny since the middle of the 19th century.
johnmenadue.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The First Nations hold title of one sort or another to over three-quarters of the land in the north and more over the coastline. When Penny Wong became foreign minister in 2022 she declared that Indigenous rights would inform her policies. Has she told Marles? #auspol
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The shortage of teachers in city schools in Australia is the equal sixth largest in the OECD with 36.6% of lower secondary teachers working in schools with a shortage of qualified teachers. #auspol #teachershortage #education
Australia has amongst the highest teacher shortages in the OECD
A new OECD report reveals that Australia’s education system is facing a diabolical staffing crisis. Since 2018, teacher shortages have soared leaving Australia among the worst-performing nations in th...
johnmenadue.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The shortage of teachers in city schools in Australia is the equal sixth largest in the OECD with 36.6% of lower secondary teachers working in schools with a shortage of qualified teachers. #auspol #teachershortage #education
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📣 New Podcast! "23 October 1913: Bristol University Suffragette arson" on @Spreaker #bristol #feminist #history
23 October 1913: Bristol University Suffragette arson
Mini podcast a radical history on this date.
www.spreaker.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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“The government is cherrypicking available science in its attempts to reassure UNESCO enough is being done to address the destruction of World Heritage caused by the salmon industry.
"This is simply not the case."
-Australia Institute Tasmania Director Eloise Carr
#auspol @eloise-carr.bsky.social
"This is simply not the case."
-Australia Institute Tasmania Director Eloise Carr
#auspol @eloise-carr.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 4:09 AM
“The government is cherrypicking available science in its attempts to reassure UNESCO enough is being done to address the destruction of World Heritage caused by the salmon industry.
"This is simply not the case."
-Australia Institute Tasmania Director Eloise Carr
#auspol @eloise-carr.bsky.social
"This is simply not the case."
-Australia Institute Tasmania Director Eloise Carr
#auspol @eloise-carr.bsky.social
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Catch Australia Council Chair Wesley Enoch on ABC RN rn talking AusArt Day—it’s today! Donate to your fave org or give to your fave artist if you can, and if that’s not possible for you, it’s just as powerful to talk up the value of the arts in our lives. Go:
www.creative.gov.au/ausartdayfaqs
www.creative.gov.au/ausartdayfaqs
October 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Catch Australia Council Chair Wesley Enoch on ABC RN rn talking AusArt Day—it’s today! Donate to your fave org or give to your fave artist if you can, and if that’s not possible for you, it’s just as powerful to talk up the value of the arts in our lives. Go:
www.creative.gov.au/ausartdayfaqs
www.creative.gov.au/ausartdayfaqs
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Chinese state media Beijing Daily says ‘failed state’ US is ‘dying from within’ as Beijing drafts next 5-year plan – SCMP
Chinese state media says US ‘dying’ as Beijing drafts next 5-year plan
Commentary highlights ‘political polarisation’ and recent large-scale protests against Donald Trump, says tariffs ‘backfired’ on Americans.
www.scmp.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Chinese state media Beijing Daily says ‘failed state’ US is ‘dying from within’ as Beijing drafts next 5-year plan – SCMP
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I'm delighted to say that I have been awarded the State Library of NSW's David Scott Mitchell Memorial Fellowship for 2026!
My project is titled "Close the Bases: A History of the Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition".
Looking forward to getting stuck into the archives next year.
My project is titled "Close the Bases: A History of the Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition".
Looking forward to getting stuck into the archives next year.
October 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I'm delighted to say that I have been awarded the State Library of NSW's David Scott Mitchell Memorial Fellowship for 2026!
My project is titled "Close the Bases: A History of the Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition".
Looking forward to getting stuck into the archives next year.
My project is titled "Close the Bases: A History of the Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition".
Looking forward to getting stuck into the archives next year.
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The magnitude, advanced methods and extent of Native American agriculture continues to be vastly underestimated IMHO: scitechdaily.com/archaeologis...
Archaeologists Uncover Massive 1000-Year-Old Native American Farms That Defy the Limits of Agriculture
Hidden beneath Michigan’s forests, researchers have uncovered vast ancient farmlands built by ancestral Menominee communities, revealing a complex agricultural system. Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, with...
scitechdaily.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The magnitude, advanced methods and extent of Native American agriculture continues to be vastly underestimated IMHO: scitechdaily.com/archaeologis...
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#OtD 20 Oct 1877 this drawing was published in London depicting famine in Bangalore, India. Famine began in 1876, and while around 5.5m Indians starved to death 100,000s of tonnes of food were exported to England with almost no relief. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9318...
October 20, 2025 at 4:40 AM
#OtD 20 Oct 1877 this drawing was published in London depicting famine in Bangalore, India. Famine began in 1876, and while around 5.5m Indians starved to death 100,000s of tonnes of food were exported to England with almost no relief. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9318...