Happy budget day folks.
The brilliant Claire Fitzpatrick and I are in the Conversation this morning talking about the some of the tensions between legacy and new media in the budget lock up.
Thanks to Amanda at @aunz.theconversation.com for working with us on this.
Catch @phoebehayman.bsky.social, myself and other like-minded nerds live on @benraue.com's Tally Room tonight talking all things Farrer!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQaK...
Was great to write about the legacy of WorkChoices in @aunz.theconversation.com for their new Politics and Policy Series.
doi.org/10.64628/AA....
Over the years, WorkChoices has become shorthand for policy disaster. It forever changed the political landscape on industrial relations reform.
New in @ausjps: Kate Thompson & Kelly Gerard examine Job Ready Graduates, HASS curriculum rationalisation and the Australian regulatory state - showing how disciplines are pushed to articulate their value in economic terms.
www.tandfonline.com
In June 2020, the Australian Coalition Government introduced the Job Ready Graduates (JRG) policy, seeking to discourage student uptake of humanities and social sciences (HASS) courses by increasin...
My article 'Measuring Descriptive Representation' was published this afternoon in Representation.
In the paper I propose a new approach based on disproportionality, which makes better use of the data we have and avoids the very common pitfall of category concatenation.
doi.org/10.1080/0034...
We've got a new paper out in the @ausjpolsci.bsky.social! We tracked the money behind minor parties and independents across electoral cycles. What we found confirms some key assumptions about political finance in Australia, but challenges others🧵
VIDEO: Coordinated booing at the Anzac Day Dawn Service.
watch: youtu.be/6oFq_00l-Aw
Who coordinated the booing at the 2026 Anzac Day Dawn Service? Same people as last year, really. Receipts herein.
6 years ago, I started asking a question that political science had largely ignored: how & why do women get involved in PRR parties as grassroots members?
Today, my 1st book proposes an answer. Grassroots Women in the Populist Radical Right is now out online with OUP:
academic.oup.com/book/62754
