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Petition Restore funding for Writers Victoria
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Happy new year and records to explore! This year, for the first time, Victorian Cabinet records closed under Section 10(1) of the Public Records Act have been opened. Delve into 1980s-90s history! url-shortener.me/3Y2F #Archives #History #Victoria #CabinetRecords #JohnCain #JoanKirner #1980s #1990s
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
The Australien Government has made an ad about the Social Media Ban for Under-16s, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
1878 plan of Melbourne showing proposed new train station on Spencer St
We’ve got some new railway stations in Melbourne. So here’s a map from our Rare Maps collection at the Uni of Melbourne showing plans for a new train station, on Spencer St, in 1878…
The ban is bad policy and it's clear not enough has been done to prepare young people and their families about what is about to happen. Where are the education packages and support that were promised? Just telling kids to log off and go touch grass is not going to cut it!
"Copyright is dead. When it comes to AI my property has been stolen all the same" by Michael Bradley #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Australia's children's commissioner Anne Hollonds has seen "nothing" to address gaps in community and support left by the teen social media ban.
A year after first raising the alarm, Hollonds says we need to take a "good, hard look at the unmet needs" of vulnerable kids.
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Opinion Social media As the world watches, Australia stands up for childhood Decisive regulation of social media is akin to the enfranchisement of women as a piece of revolutionary social policy reform. Peter Hartcher Political and international editor
Standing up for childhood would be ending poverty, raising income supports, making *all* healthcare free and accessible, mental health care for all, affordable and secure housing tor everyone, funding public education fully, ending discrimination, ensuring economic justice…
The Australian Government makes more money from HECS repayments than it does from the PRRT.
‘Norway taxes its fossil fuel industry and gives their kids free higher education… we subsidise our fossil fuel industry and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni.’
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
eSafety Commissioner website has published resources for under-16 social media ban. I don’t see any suggestions or specific support for neurodiverse kids, or kids who aren’t going to just easily swap out their carefully curated online social networks for uncontrolled IRL events
Recast this with 65 year Olds and I'm sold
Precisely. Banning young people from social media just so ill-informed boomers can get over their made-up moral panic simply ends up harming the most vulnerable, for whom social media are a critical lifeline. 👇👇👇
Haha tried to repost and replied instead :-) Fixed that now. Good luck with the launch!!
As a parent of a couple of youngsters, I can thoroughly recommend Stuart’s books - the kids love them (and so do I)! This one is bound to be awesome 🤩
The launch for Lost in a Book is, appropriately, happening on Love Your Bookshop Day! 2pm at Readings Kids in Carlton on 11 October, hosted by the amazing Karys McEwen! Link in bio for tickets 📖🐱✨
I wish - can’t make it this year. Hopefully next year though!
🎉 Awesome!
Brilliant by @amyremeikis.bsky.social
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Come on Jim, lift your game with naming your horse!
Source: University of Melbourne Archive, Strathfieldsaye series.
#history #archive #research #Australia
Incredible facts about Barrow Island There is no public access to Barrow Island as it is listed as a Class A Nature Reserve. It is home to 24 species and subspecies found nowhere else on Earth. Barrow Island is home to Boodie Cave, which is one of Australia's oldest archaeological sites and contains evidence of humans from 46,200 to 51,100 years ago. US energy giant Chevron was permitted to build its $54 billion Greater Gorgon gas extraction project on the island.
From a story about a new species of pseudoscorpion, this sort of highlighted the management of Australia in a nutshell
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Yup 🙄: Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/didnt-take-long-to-reveal-the-uks-online-safety-act-is-exactly-the-privacy-crushing-failure-everyone-warned-about/
As the mother of a 10yo and a 13yo, I totally agree.
The under 16s social media ban is populist bullshit which won’t help kids, but will actively harm many. It’ll cut off their access to social groups, information, community, while leaving them with less protection against the really bad stuff
Teen internet social media ban? Is it good? Is it bad? Is it incredibly inconvenient and a waste of time? Yes! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Good of the UK to do it before us to show what a clusterf*ck it is
This is cool. 250yrs after William Hamilton designed a Vesuvius apparatus to illustrate the awe of Mount Vesuvius erupting, two mechatronich Masters students at UniMelb have created it, to accompany our new exhibition in the Baillieu Library: “The Grand Tour”
library.unimelb.edu.au/asc/whats-on...
If you would like to add your voice in support, you can sign here:
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More than 100 high-profile and distinguished Australians -and BA graduates- have signed the @austhistassoc.bsky.social open letter calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates: a policy that punishes humanities students with life-changing debts: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Photo through a glass wall of an empty gallery space with some work equipment such as a ladder and power cables. A sign reads: “Gallery closed for exhibition change-over. Re-opening 28 July”
The anticipation is building…well, something is building, only we can’t see what yet 😂
This is the bit of exhibition turn-over where anything is possible. Come the end of July we’ll have a brand new exhibition in this space 🤩
#baillieulibrary #unimelb #norlshawgallery #archivesandspecialcollection
