Professor @MediaCommsMQ & @CMediaHistory @Macquarie_Uni. Editor of A Companion to the Australian Media, now on @AustLit. Libraries, tennis, food.
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Bridget Griffen-Foley retweeted
This, by a former colleague, is horrifying but all too familiar. Universities paying vast sums to management companies who tell them to "streamline" teaching in ways that are fundamentally unacademic and not in the interests of students... For shame.
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Bridget Griffen-Foley retweeted
The HE situation is absolutely dire. When will proper support and intervention happen? We are losing vital subjects in humanities and sciences.
May 20
Universities now destroy 'departments' (now only course housing in practice) entirely based on last year's recruitment numbers relative to the cost of running the course.
IOW, research is dead in the UK HE.
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Bridget Griffen-Foley retweeted
May 7
No @BBCNews - you can't send out a breaking news alert to millions of people across the UK that begins "Sir David Attenborough..." the day before his 100th birthday. The entire country just took a sharp intake of breath.
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Bridget Griffen-Foley retweeted
Feb 6
Time flies when you're outlasting Prime Ministers
Feb 6
Larry the Cat will have been in Downing Street 15 years next week, he is the most stable thing about British politics these days @Number10cat @petercardwell
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Bridget Griffen-Foley retweeted
More than 20 years ago when starting out as a young journo I had the great privilege of meeting Bob Woodward, to interview him about his latest book and Watergate. This week’s layoffs have been devastating. Hoping WaPo can continue to deliver outstanding journalism in tough times
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Feb 5
The old gag that you need strong peripheral vision to notice Australia from Washington was always nonsense, and never more so than since @MikeMillerDC started cover this beat with such clear eyes and smarts. Terrific coverage.
It was an honor to be @washingtonpost's first Sydney bureau chief. Unfortunately, I'm also the last. The paper is shrinking foreign coverage. I've lost my job. Worse, millions of readers will lose my colleagues' brilliant coverage. At a time of tumult, we need more info, not less
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Bridget Griffen-Foley retweeted
Feb 6
Remembering Professor Emma Johnston AO University of Melbourne Commemoration ministers.education.gov.au/c…
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Bridget Griffen-Foley retweeted
9 Dec 2025
We're looking for an Election Researcher to help prepare election materials & cover election results. You’ll help manage key databases, produce research materials, and dive into electoral research. This is a unique elections role at ABC News
Full details: careers.abc.net.au/en/job/50…
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Jamal Khashoggi's wife said she felt dismayed by Trump's remarks that the Saudi crown prince knew nothing about the 2018 killing of the journalist by Saudi agents, for which Bin Salman has been strongly criticized by human rights groups reut.rs/49mg75o
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Bridget Griffen-Foley retweeted
9 Nov 2025
The king is dead. I’m told John died peacefully at home. And I’m sad to hear it. We were friends…we had a fierce feud…we made up and were friends again. There was no better broadcaster in all the long history of radio. ‘And you be kind to each other…’
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Bridget Griffen-Foley retweeted
7 Nov 2025
Delighted University of Canberra has announced my appointment as Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, and Director of UC's new Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas. Looking forward to developing this exciting initiative from early 2026. canberra.edu.au/about-uc/med…
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Bridget Griffen-Foley retweeted
22 Oct 2025
'Mervyn Bishop: Close Up' celebrates one one of Australia's most important photographers.
This new exhibition offers a rare glimpse of the man behind the lens and honours the enduring legacy of Australia’s first Aboriginal press photographer.
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Bridget Griffen-Foley retweeted
20 Oct 2025
"Macquarie University Cuts Funding From 2SER After 45 Years"
cityhub.com.au/macquarie-uni…
this doesn't bode well. hope they can find alternative funding
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14 Oct 2025
A stairway to heaven. This is the banned book staircase created by Newport Public Library, Oregon. A timely reminder how books lift you up & the fact that it’s only control freaks, killjoys & prudes who want to police what you do between the covers. #bookban
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Are you a university staff member? Take 5-6 mins and help independent researchers shine a light on the state of staff wellbeing in our unis: nteu.info/census
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Bridget Griffen-Foley retweeted
9 Oct 2025
John Frew's is the best overview of a - maybe the - key driver of the slashing of humanities disciplines/academics/courses: a consultant groupthink that works via interlocking memberships and dependencies of university executives and councils, and the firms they hire for advice.
8 Oct 2025
One in three Australian universities has a consultant or ex-consultant on its governing body. Advisers are the governors. Why does the ALP still let consultancies rule-and milk-our universities? Journalists, please, start asking harder questions. Read: tinyurl.com/yw63farh
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Bridget Griffen-Foley retweeted
9 Oct 2025
#Breaking | ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences will not face structural changes at this time. No renaming, merging, or disestablishment of areas. Change management appears to have been halted, even walked back completely. It’s unclear the impacts of this announcement on music.
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Bridget Griffen-Foley retweeted
1 Oct 2025
Thank you Jane, from all the animals x
1 Oct 2025
Jane Goodall, chimpanzee expert and animal rights campaigner, dies aged 91
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Bridget Griffen-Foley retweeted
3 Oct 2025
And what a disastrous year for the ANU it has been.
2 Oct 2025
Today is the 1-year anniversary of Renew ANU.
@NTEUnion members at @ourANU have worked together, and:
🟣 The VC has resigned
🟣 We've saved 160 involuntary job losses.
Today, ANU Council considers our petition to dismiss the Chancellor. My recent op-ed outlines why they should.
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