Chris Salisbury

Race, Rhetoric and Rights: boundary marking in Australian political discourse: Australian Journal of Politics & History Click on the title to browse this issue

My article with @booklearning.bsky.social on the demographics of membership applications for the National Front of Australia has been included in this new virtual special issue of the Australian Journal of Politics and History on race, rhetoric and rights.

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Extremely strong Blackadder series 4 vibes there

Two seats scrapped in proposed redraw of Queensland electoral map The long-awaited changes would see two new districts created and 19 renamed ahead of the 2028 state election.

initial pass at the proposed Queensland state redistribution out this afternoon here, which would see Stretton and Hill folded into neighbouring seats, new seats of Caboolture and Springfield, + a bunch of other boundary changes a lotta folks are still trying to work through

The Queensland government has interfered with the state’s literary awards – again

Are judges of literary awards and fellowships now being asked to assess not just the work, but the writer too?

80s peak era for rock stars lionising Ned Kelly, another case in point

#OtD 8 Mar 1917 defying union leaderships, women workers and housewives took the streets of St Petersburg against high prices and hunger. They were joined the next day by 200,000 workers, sparking the February Revolution stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1082...

I’m not a historian and I am touching a hot stove by saying this, but this is romanticizing the past. Maybe it’s literally true if you go back to the medieval and renaissance period, but accounts of universities filled with drunken lazy rich me go back hundreds of years.

Still image from the ‘Flood’ episode of the Young Ones, Vyvyan stands next to an open window holding a glass of yellowish liquid, caption reads “It’s pissing down now”

Never not gonna post this when the heavens open over the subtropical paradise that is Brisbane / Magandjin 🌧️

When the Personal Became Too Political: ASIO and the Monitoring of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Australia In the official history of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), there is only one mention of the women’s liberation movement, amongst a collection of other social movements tha...

In anticipation of International Women’s Day, here’s something I wrote a few years ago on the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and the surveillance of the Women’s Liberation Movement in the early 1970s.

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‘No way’ Iran’s women footballers can return, as calls grow to protect them in Australia The Iranian women's football team is facing an impossible situation. Return home, and possibly face punishment from the Islamic Republic regime for its silent protest, or stay in Australia and their families could instead suffer retribution.

The Iranian women's football team is facing an impossible situation. Return home, and possibly face punishment from the Islamic Republic regime for its silent protest, or stay in Australia and their families could instead suffer retribution.

Guardian headline: “Bob Carr, ‘a masterpiece’ and a hornet queer fantasy”

And this, kids, is why we need Oxford commas…

Dennis Cometti, Australian sports commentary great, dies aged 76 West Australian was best known for calling AFL games with a broadcast career spanning 51 years across radio and TV

Is there anyone else in the history of the universe who could, in the moment of seeing a player take a heavy hit, come up with “Liberatore went into that last pack optimistically - and came out misty optically”

Saw them up here a week ago. This song resonated, but the whole show was terrific

Last blood moon for almost three years stuns stargazers Australians looking to the sky on Tuesday night saw the Moon turn a reddish-orange hue, in the last total lunar eclipse until 2029.

Australians looking to the sky on Tuesday night saw the Moon turn a reddish-orange hue, in the last total lunar eclipse until 2029.

Pulp - Something Changed YouTube video by PulpVEVO

03.03.01 - a lot can change in 25 years 💔 youtu.be/K_NjI7iuwtk?...

Australia is getting a AI Safety Institute. So, what does the government think is the biggest risk from AI?

Is it catastrophic threats like Skynet, current issues like deepfakes or squandering AI's potential with red tape?

I wrote about the jockeying over what AISI will do: www.crikey.com.au/20...

Louise Adler sets the record straight on Adelaide Writers' Week The Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) debacle might have served as a “life lesson” to politicians and lobbyists about the risks involved in interfering with the independence of arts organisations. But as we have seen at Newcastle and the Sydney Writers Festival some are apparently slow learners.

The Adelaide Writers’ Week saga was about lobby groups, false equivalence and pressure on cultural institutions to bend to political demands, Louise Adler writes.
#PearlsAndIrritations #auspol #ArtsIndependence #WritersFestivals #CulturalPolitics #FreeSpeech

Whhaaaaaa…!! Actually no, that seems very on brand for you André :)

And teenage me can certainly relate - U2’s first three albums were on high rotation in my Walkman during early high school years (yes, when they were released)

*stop stop he’s already dead* gif

This now takes me back to when I was but a Boy (that’s the best I’ve got with increasingly limited material and energy)

woah he’s gone B sides now people, this is truly some niche niche poasting 👀

haha outdone yourself here, and dare I say, two hearts beat as one after this effort

We’re unfortunately at that stage of the 21st century where US administration foreign policy strategy aligns with U2 album release anniversaries. This does not bode well for the future of humanity

Okay I feel like this is going to come up a lot in the next 24 hours so let's just clear this up:

Ayatollah Khameini, the Iranian supreme leader allegedly killed today, is/was *not* the same person as Ayatollah Khomeini, the supreme leader who came to power in the 1979 revolution.

First Aboriginal woman to receive PhD at Harvard remembered as 'trailblazer' MaryAnn Bin-Sallik was the first Aboriginal nurse graduate in Darwin and the first Aboriginal person to receive a PhD at Harvard University. Following her death at age 85, the Djaru Elder is being remembered for her work in Indigenous education, health and human rights.

MaryAnn Bin-Sallik was the first Aboriginal nurse graduate in Darwin and the first Aboriginal person to receive a PhD at Harvard University. Following her death at age 85, the Djaru Elder is being remembered for her work in Indigenous education, health and human rights.

Why Write Historical Fiction? I wanted to understand a hidden part of my own family’s history.

“Imagination is a vital tool that any writer must deploy to access aspects of the past.”

Our latest, from Ben Nadler.

Traditional owners awarded $54m compensation for losses from major mine Native title holders in the Northern Territory have been awarded more than $54 million in compensation for the impacts of large-scale mining on their country, in just the second case of its kind in Australian history.

Native title holders in the Northern Territory have been awarded more than $54 million in compensation for the impacts of large-scale mining on their country, in just the second case of its kind in Australian history.

A steak dinner at the renowned Breakfast Creek Hotel in Brisbane, favoured dining establishment and watering hole of former Soviet Presidents

Following in the footsteps of giants (Mikhail Gorbachev c.1999)

History Australia 23(1) out now!
“Happy reading and bon courage for 2026”
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Emerald Fennell’s ‘Smooth-Brained’ Wuthering Heights is the face of our modern literacy crisis Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” was inspired by the Saltburn director’s first adolescent experience of reading Emily Brontë’s 1847 classic. For Macquarie University historical fiction researcher...

I absolutely hated Fennell's Wuthering Heights and I talked about it here: lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/2026...