Dr Nathan Fioritti

APSA Prizes and Awards 2025 - Australian Political Studies Association In recognition of the contributions made to all areas of political science, APSA will award the below prizes in 2025. These prizes cover a wide spectrum of achievement, from the PhD Thesis Prize award...

🌿 Reminder: APSA 2025 Prizes Open

🏆 Pete Hay Prizes in Environmental Politics
• 🎤 Conf. Presentation (ECRs)
• 📄 Publication (all career stages)
⏰ 25 Oct 2025

🏆 ANZSOG Siobhan O’Sullivan Prize
• 📄 Best policy studies article (postgrad/ECR)
⏰ 10 Oct 2025
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#APSA2025

With today's 2035 emissions reduction target announcement, it is a good time to remind everyone that @climatecouncil.org.au has long argued that, in order for Australia to act in line with the Paris Agreement, we should be aiming for net zero by 2035. www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/wh...

With a 2035 emissions reduction target of 62-70%, I think we can say Ketan called it.👇

Massive Free Palestine rally in Naarm today - the front was already at Flinders Street before the union contingent had even left State Library. Proud to join and march with NTEU comrades for an end to the two-way arms trade, genocide, ethnic cleansing and occupation. ✊🇵🇸

Thanks Tim - it was somewhat frustrating seeing how overblown this all was, so I figured I'd offer some grounded analysis

The Greens’ expulsion of a co-founder is unlikely to jeopardise the party’s future The expulsion of co-founder Drew Hutton shows transgender rights and safety are not negotiable for the party.

The latest from me in @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-greens-e...

Some particular highlights of #IPSA2025 were chairing an excellent panel on climate change and the state, hearing Professor Donatella della Porta's plenary address on academic freedom, and finding a potential publisher for a book based on my PhD thesis - stay tuned for more on that!

It was an incredible privilege to join over 3,300 peers last week at the largest ever International Political Science Association (IPSA) World Congress in Seoul.

Thanks to all who helped organise the conference, shared their work and came to hear about and offer feedback on my own.

Breaking: Truth-telling inquiry recommends redress for Aboriginal Victorians One hundred recommendations are handed down as Australia's first truth-telling inquiry finds crimes against humanity and genocide were committed against Aboriginal people in Victoria.

One hundred recommendations are handed down as Australia's first truth-telling inquiry finds crimes against humanity and genocide were committed against Aboriginal people in Victoria.

The Convention was part of the Victorian Schools Parliamentary Program - run by National Curriculum Services on behalf of the Victorian Department of Education - and included students from Saint Ignatius as well as Clonard College, Kardinia International College, and St Joseph's College.

I found students were really engaged in both the topic and the parliamentary procedures they adopted as part of the debate, and I hope they came away from this event with a stronger grasp of the Australian Constitution and political system as a whole.

To the frustration of some, I did not offer a straight answer, but rather, focused on key considerations students should account for when approaching this question.

It was my great pleasure to join and deliver a keynote address to students at Saint Ignatius College last week as part of a Local Parliamentary Convention on the Australian Constitution and whether it is fit for purpose or obsolete. Thank you to all involved for having me.

Thanks to our hosts at @deldemucan.bsky.social at the University of Canberra, and the POP Exec for organising.

It was a pleasure to join, reconnect with and meet new members of the @apsa-pop.bsky.social community this week and present papers on political systems and extreme polarisation (with Narelle Miragliotta) and the Greensland phenomenon in Brisbane (with @phoebehayman.bsky.social and Stewart Jackson).

The Prime Minister is lying to your face about selling weapons for Israel’s genocide - The Shot The hairs Albanese is splitting are on the heads of murdered Palestinians. Australia is contributing to Israel's genocide of Palestine.

Here's me. 'The Prime Minister is lying to your face about selling weapons for Israel’s genocide'

This article also features not one, but two excellent new cartoons from @fionakatauskas.bsky.social

Fresh start for the Greens, with new leader Larissa Waters

Larissa Waters will be tasked with rebuilding the Greens in the lower house after its near election wipe out and managing the sole balance of power in the Senate

Environmental Defenders Office funding completely cut in Queensland The office provides legal aid to those dealing with environmental and planning disputes and has received about $500,000 per year over the past five years from the Queensland government.

On the same day Larissa Waters - formerly a lawyer with the Environmental Defenders Office - was appointed leader of the Greens, the Crisafulli Government, after pledging pre-election that they'd continue to fund the EDO, has revealed they're cutting it. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Fresh start for the Greens, with new leader Larissa Waters Larissa Waters will be tasked with rebuilding the Greens in the lower house after its near election wipe out and managing the sole balance of power in the Senate

Larissa Waters is the Greens' new leader. Besides having an apt surname for an ecological party leader, what do we know about her? And what might we expect from her leadership of Australia's largest minor party?

New piece from me in @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/fresh-start-...

Australia election: Cost of living, economy, Trump define ballot Over 18 million Australians are registered to vote in Saturday’s federal election that pits Prime Minister Albanese’s Labor against the conservative Liberal-National Coalition - Anadolu Ajansı

It's election day in Australia and I've provided some commentary to @anadoluajansicom.bsky.social on key issues this election campaign and what we might expect to see later today and over the course of the next parliamentary term. Read the story here: www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/...

Heatwaves and climate change are Australia’s deadliest ‘unnatural’ disaster With the mercury soaring in much of the country, extreme heat and heatwaves are fast becoming Australia’s most urgent climate-driven health emergency, says University of Melbourne expert

Excellent piece from A/Prof Grant Blashki, noting that heatwaves are Australia’s deadliest natural disaster – surpassing bushfires, floods, etc. As Blashki writes, at the heart of this issue is climate justice, with vulnerable groups disproportionately impacted pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/hea...

Thank you!

I recognise that this is a really privileged position to be in, and have every intention of using it to drive social change and uplift others. Looking forward to whatever comes next!

Graduation day today! Got to don the floppy cap and sit alongside the big wigs. Thank you to all who supported me through my PhD - you know who you are!

This report was tabled with little coverage. Its a routine update on the unfolding climate catastrophe, with some important messages:

-the climate is already changing
-heatwaves & droughts are going to have huge impacts on VIC
-what we do now matters

www.climatechange.vic.gov.au/victorias-ch...

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New paper published @ajpseditor.bsky.social

Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹

Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state?

We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out

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🚨 How are more ambitious climate policies feasible politically? We have published 4 new research briefs on the political viability of climate policies. You can find all the briefs on our website.
Here is a 🧵summarizing the briefs.
Please share.
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Like many other European social democratic parties, Labour is moving right on immigration, certainly driven by the recent success of Reform. We have researched this question for years now. There is an abundance of evidence of why this isn't a good strategy. A thread summarizing some of our research

Australia charts hottest spring on record for mean temperatures – as it happened This blog is now closed. Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The health minister, Mark Butler, is holding a press conference in Adelaide to announce the endometriosis drug Visanne will be added to the pharmaceutical benefits scheme. It’s the first listing of an endo treatment in three decades. This is a condition that impacts more than 1 million women – one in seven women and teenage girls – and for too long, too many women have been made to suffer in silence. [They’ve] been told by many healthcare professionals, it has to be said, that this is “normal”. That it is a normal part of period pain or many other explanations for debilitating, crippling pain. This is all about providing cheaper medicines and cutting-edge treatment to Australian patients generally, but [particularly] in the area of endometriosis, which has attracted such inadequate support for hundreds of thousands of Australian women. This listing is beyond time. The major contributor to the record has been the minimum temperatures, which averaged 17.2ºC over the spring season for the site, and were elevated by cloud cover, precipitation, and most notably, humidity. Continue reading...

Australia charts hottest spring on record for mean temperatures – as it happened

Very fortunate to be in Walyalup (Fremantle) while Wardarnji is on and to see local Noongar mob celebrate and share their culture