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On the anniversary of Australia’s 1967 Referendum, revisit a #VIDAblog by Lucy Davies and Kate Laing.

For the Referendum's 50th anniversary, Davies and Laing highlighted the activism of Indigenous elder, Joyce Clague.

#NRW2025 #BridgingNowtoNext

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Badge – ‘Vote Yes for Aborigines’, 1967. Photographer: Jon Augier. Image courtesy of Museums Victoria.
May 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Every day is International Women's Day at the Australian Women's History Network!

To celebrate, check out our wealth of feminist, gender, and women's history at #VIDAblog 🚺 ⚧️

#IWD2026 #BalanceTheScales #RightsJusticeAction

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International Women's Day 2026 Balance the Scales For All Women and Girls #BalanceTheScales #IWD2026 UN Women Australia
March 8, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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Mothers have long been unfairly blamed for their children's autism, as Kate McAnelly recently wrote in #VIDAblog.

Knowing this history is all the more important following yesterday's scientifically unfounded allegations about paracetamol/tylenol.

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Unreal and untrue: Refrigerator mother theory and the historic vilification of the mothers of disabled children | Australian Women's History Network
Dr Kate McAnelly explores how refrigerator mother theory was incorrectly used to blame mothers as being the cause of their children's autism.
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September 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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NEW at #VIDAblog!

Peter Woodley explores the place of gender in the Queensland Bush Workers’ Strike of 1891.

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Gender and the Queensland Bush Workers' Strike, 1891 | Australian Women's History Network
In this blog, Peter Woodley explores the place of gender in the Queensland Bush Workers' Strike of 1891.
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May 16, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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#PublicHumanities features new research about the important role of academic blogging in knowledge translation for the humanities.

Historians Ana Stevenson and Alana Piper, our very own founding managing editors of #VIDAblog, collaborate with higher education researcher @kieranballoo.bsky.social.
dranastevenson.bsky.social Ana Stevenson @dranastevenson.bsky.social · Apr 9
What a pleasure to think about academic blogging – or “doing” knowledge translation – with @kieranballoo.bsky.social and Alana Piper in #PublicHumanities, a brand new journal ed. @zoebulaitis.bsky.social and Jeffrey R. Wilson.

Check out our top tips for getting started! ⬇️

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Journal cover for Public Humanities Special Edition journal cover for Public Humanities: The How-To Issue
April 9, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Congratulations to #VIDAblog editorial assistant Michael Stockwell on launching this new series bringing legal perspectives to the history of #vilification.

Keep an eye out for future series updates 👀

In the meantime, check out the series introduction ⬇️
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In our latest blog VIDA editorial assistant and PhD candidate Michael Stockwell introduces a new series exploring historical and contemporary experiences of vilification through gender, sexual orientation and roles associated with them.

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Queer Straight Alliance Against Hate- DC Gay Pride Parade 2012. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Michael Stockwell: PhD candidate with the Centre for Heritage and Culture, and the School of Law and Justice at the University of Southern Queensland.
March 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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NEW at #VIDAblog!

@drkyliesmith.bsky.social explores Black women’s experiences of racism and sexism within psychiatry, documenting their activism during the civil rights era in the United States.

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Book cover: Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South (The University of North Carolina Press, 2026). Photograph: Associate Professor Kylie M. Smith
August 24, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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Congratulations to Alana Piper on the launch of her new book, Yirranma Place: Stories of a #Darlinghurst Corner (NewSouth Publishing)!

Another one for the #holiday stockings!

Find out more in the latest #VIDAblog ⬇️

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Book cover: Alana Piper, Yirranma Place: Stories of a Darlinghurst Corner (NewSouth Publishing, 2024).
December 19, 2024 at 12:42 AM
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"Women's Education" is a new series, edited by #VIDAblog editorial assistant Kaitlin Mills.

This series explores the different higher learning opportunities, both formal and informal, available to women globally from the 19C onwards 🎓🍎

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Women's Education | Australian Women's History Network
This blog begins a new series, edited by Kaitlin Mills, dedicated to exploring the different higher learning opportunities, both formal and informal, available globally to women from the nineteenth ce...
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July 13, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Our thanks to all the authors who contributed to #VIDAblog this year ✨

Check out our Top 10 for 2024!

Congratulations to #VIDAblog Managing Editor @paigedonaghy.bsky.social, whose “Premodern Gender’ – Rethinking Categories” series featured prominently!

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Top 10 for 2024 1. “Compiling an Oral History of Oral Contraceptives in Australia: It’s NOW or Never,” by Natasha Szuhan 2. “Regnant Queenship or Female Kingship? Gender, Power, and Legitimacy in Early Modern Europe,” by Tyler Horton 3. “Why should we challenge assumptions about second-wave feminism in Aotearoa New Zealand?” by Geena Carlisle 4. Series Introduction: “‘Premodern Gender’ – Rethinking Categories,” by Paige Donaghy 5. “‘Manly’ violence: rape, massacres, and white masculinity on the Queensland frontier,” by Zoe Smith 6. “Too much married: Bigamy and the Australian military,” by Alana Piper 7. “A Man-to-Man Whipping and a Promotion in Byzantium,” by Mark Masterson 8. “Our Best State Asset: Women, babies, and citizenship in World War I,” by Katherine Weiss 9. “A Cocktail of Academic Fervour and Dance Fever: My Experience of AHA 2024,” by Meg Graham 10. Series Introduction: “Gender, Biography & History,” by Malcolm Allbrook and Michelle Staff
December 20, 2024 at 2:15 AM
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A new #VIDAblog commemorates the life and career of esteemed Australian historian Kay Saunders.

We share some beautiful reflections from @shirleene.bsky.social, @amcgrath.bsky.social, Jackie Huggins, @zorasimic.bsky.social, and @megancw.bsky.social.

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Remembering Kay Saunders (1947-2026) | Australian Women's History Network
In this blog, Shirleene Robinson and the Australian Women's History Network remember Emeritus Professor Kay Saunders, AO, FASSA, FRHistS (1947–2026).
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June 1, 2026 at 8:22 AM
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On the 50th anniversary of the Dismissal, revisit the career and achievements of Elizabeth Reid, the world’s first advisor on women’s affairs advisor to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, at #VIDAblog.

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Book cover: Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the Revolution, edited by Michelle Arrow (NewSouth Publishing, 2023).
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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In the latest #VIDAblog Margaret Allen remembers Emeritus Professor Alison MacKinnon.

Read about Alison's impact and achievements here ⬇️
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Remembering Alison MacKinnon (1941–2025) | Australian Women's History Network
Margaret Allen remembers Emeritus Professor Alison MacKinnon, AO, FASSA (1941–2025)
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September 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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This week, Australia and Britain mark Birth Trauma Awareness Week 📣

Learn more about the history of birth trauma and obstetric violence from #VIDAblog Managing Editor @paigedonaghy.bsky.social.

#BirthTraumaAwareness #BirthTrauma #ObstetricViolence

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Histories of Birth Trauma and Obstetric Violence | Australian Women's History Network
In this blog, Managing Editor Paige Donaghy explores the history of birth trauma and obstetric violence in Britain and Australia for “Birth Trauma Awareness Week” 2025.
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July 16, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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In our latest blog, VIDA Commissioning Editor Michael Stockwell explores the intersection between the Lutheran Two-Kingdoms Paradox and Rural Fundamentalism and its impact on Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s approach to politics. #vidablog

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Poster in support of Bjelke-Peterson and the National Party in Queensland. Queensland Museum Collection, H22289. Satirical $15 Note (1983) showing a caricature of Bjelke-Petersen and his impact on rural Queensland. H46288 in the Queensland Museum Collection. VIDA Commissioning Editor Michael Stockwell.
December 9, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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NEW at #VIDAblog!

Judith Brett shares her experiences writing the biography of Australian author and women’s activist Beatrice Faust.

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Fearless Beatrice Faust | Australian Women's History Network
In this blog, Judith Brett shares her experiences writing the biography of Australian author and women's activist Beatrice Faust.
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August 26, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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@ahartman.bsky.social explores the impressions that playing video games gives us about significant women historical figures, asking: What impact does this have on informal public education about women's history? 🎮

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What do video games teach us about women’s history? | Australian Women's History Network
In this blog, Abbie Hartman explores the impression of women's history given through video games and its impact on informal education.
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October 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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NEW at #VIDAblog!

Eli Branagh and Taylah Evans discuss their experience hosting ‘Thinking Beyond Liberal Narratives of Progress’, a one-day symposium held in response to the recently published Personal Politics: The Remaking of Gender, Sexuality, and Citizenship (2024).

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Reflection: ‘Thinking Beyond Liberal Narratives of Progress’ Symposium | Australian Women's History Network
Eli Branagh and Tahlya Evans reflect on their experience hosting the ‘Thinking Beyond Liberal Narratives of Progress’ symposium.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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In a new #VIDAblog, Cally Jetta explores the history of the remote schooling system for Aboriginal communities and its current failing formula.

#NAIDOCWeek #NAIDOC2025 #StrengthVisionLegacy

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The Failing Formula of Remote Schooling | Australian Women's History Network
In this blog, Cally Jetta explores the history of the remote schooling system for Aboriginal communities and its current failing formula.
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July 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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NEW at #VIDAblog!

Kerrie Saunders and @mcookhistory.bsky.social explore Kamilaroi women’s knowledge of nature, country, and history.

The "Environment and Gender" series is guest edited by @rubyekkel.bsky.social.

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Listening to Kamilaroi Women | Australian Women's History Network
Kerrie Saunders and Margaret Cook explore Kamilaroi women's knowledge of nature, country and history.
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September 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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In the latest #VIDAblog in the Australian Journal of Biography and History series, Richard Fotheringham’s research on entertainer Jenny Howard leads him to the idea of ‘echoic biography’.

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Towards Echoic Biography | Australian Women's History Network
Richard Fotheringham’s research on entertainer Jenny Howard leads him to the idea of ‘echoic biography’.
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June 17, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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To mark the #16Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, revisit a blog by @tanyaevans.bsky.social in our #VIDAblog series exploring the role of family history in consciousness raising about domestic violence.

#16DaysofActivism

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The cover to Tanya Evans's book, Fractured Families: Life on the Margins in Colonial NSW (NewSouth Publishing, 2015). ST VINCENT’S HOSPITAL, CIRCA 1900S. IMAGE VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS.
November 26, 2024 at 7:00 AM
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To mark the #16Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, revisit a #VIDAblog about women’s experiences of militarised sexual abuse during the Asia-Pacific War by @veramackie.bsky.social.

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MINIATURE REPLICA OF THE PEACE MONUMENT. PHOTOGRAPH BY VERA MACKIE. THE PEACE MONUMENT, SEOUL, SHOWING THE GRANDMOTHER’S ‘SHADOW’. PHOTOGRAPH BY VERA MACKIE.
December 3, 2024 at 9:48 AM
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To mark the #16Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, revisit a #VIDAblog where @senthorun.bsky.social discusses how pop culture stereotypes about homosexuality enable bureaucratic violence towards refugees.

#16DaysofActivism

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THE REFUGEE ACTION COLLECTIVE OF VICTORIA’S 2012 VIGIL IN SOLIDARITY WITH TWO IRANIAN REFUGEES ON HUNGER STRIKE AT THE BROADMEADOWS IMMIGRATION DETENTION CENTRE, MELBOURNE. PHOTOGRAPH BY TAKVER. IMAGE VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL COMMEMORATIVE STAMP, 1961-1986. IMAGE VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS.
December 9, 2024 at 6:47 AM
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Check out a new #VIDAblog from biographer Tessa Morris-Suzuki about the life of Ethel May Punshon.

Known to her friends as Monte, this extraordinary woman's 106-year life crossed many boundaries.

A great new book for the #Holiday stockings!

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A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon’s Australia 1882-1989 (Melbourne University Publishing, 2024), by Tessa Morris-Suzuki. Monte Punshon c.1030s. Image via Wikimedia Commons.
December 8, 2024 at 4:11 AM