Taking gold over a cliff
Escorting gold over the mountains to Sydney and the myth of the bushranger who leaps
F*cking Capitalism
Historian Hannah Forsyth writes about capitalism, work, and higher education...and her personal project to overcome her work ethic addiction and f*ck capitalism one home grown vegetable at a time.
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If you can't be bothered writing it, I can't be bothered reading it.
The producerist vision of AI seems to assume an endlessly expanding market for reading. And reading. Well. It is rather more than a market.
The future depends on excited, passionate, well-trained history teachers.
Conditions for enabling this have never been more difficult.
Universities are not safe places to work
Overwork, extreme stress, and a lack of physical safety is underpinned by active hostility to academic staff in general - and union activists in particular.
In the 19th century small business folk traded gold and money. And then the banks took over.
This is also a gendered story because women were money brokers too.
Political repression is (arguably) worse than during the Cold War, making universities the frontline against fascism.
The best way to deal with very serious levels of political repression is to build democratic universities
The Violence of Capitalism
Review essay on settler colonialism and the growth of global capitalism
Journey to the end of the rainbow
Hill End is Australia's Deadwood. I went there to see about some gold.
Historians (other ones) respond to the crisis in the universities
Raewyn Connell, Julia Horne and Peter McPhee in the latest issue of Australian Historical Studies (also me)
Australia's missed banking opportunity
Recent interest rate rise reminds us that the system redistributes wealth - from the bottom to the top. It could have been otherwise.