Zora
@ZoraSimic
Historian (sort of); Gender Studies (sometimes); Reviewer (often); Wog Westie Feminist; She/ Her; works at @UNSW 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
When you were studying it was free and houses only cost 3x as much as the average income - I think we need a bit more than penalty rates
Penalty rates helped me get through uni. When I was a student, I often worked the Saturday night shift at Pancakes on the Rocks between 11pm and 7am. Giving up a weekend was worth it because of penalty rates. They meant I could study and still pay the bills. I know how much…
Great to see Deakin University in Melbourne is recruiting 20 postdoctoral fellows. These are up to three year positions and include a decent salary + research funds. Melbourne is a great city! timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listin…
'After Columbia’s recent adoption of a new definition of antisemitism...Hirsch fears she may face official sanction for even mentioning the landmark text by Arendt, a philosopher who criticized Israel’s founding.' apnews.com/article/columb…
Chris Minns who shamefully lit the Sydney Opera House in the colours of the barbaric state of Israel says “No” to Pro-Palestinian organisers who requested to hold a rally on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. What a racist arsehole.
Please sign & share letter opposing Special Envoy's proposed plan to combat antisemitism - which it will not do, but it will erode academic freedom. overland.org.au/2025/07/open-l… via @overlandjournal
Job-Ready Graduates attacks the arts and humanities and presents an often insurmountable obstacle for those looking to undertake further study. Follow the link for an Open Letter to @albomp calling for the repeal of JRG, and sign our petition. linktr.ee/aushistoricala…
Remembering Sinéad O'Connor who died two years ago today. RIP
Write to your MP and representatives in the Senate: Join me in demanding that Australia sanction Israel NOW. apan.org.au/action-demand-…
“Rules are rules! We must have standards!” Only one of these actions have resulted in a parliamentary censure. Racism, a silly wig, mining, bigotry and a fish, are OK. But standing up for human rights? Not OK. These are the standards accepted by the Albanese government. #AUSPOL
Gender studies cut in ANU slash and burn canberratimes.com.au/story/9021906/…
Penny Wong has moved a censure motion against Mehreen Faruqi for holding up this sign in Parliament. The ALP sink deeper and deeper into genocide complicity.
The ALP in the Senate right now showing that they are more angry about people protesting genocide than the actual carrying out of genocide
NEW: A SafeWork NSW inspector accused University of Sydney students and staff of 'antisemitic political activism' for supporting Palestine in a leaked report deepcutnews.com/p/safework-nsw…
NEW: A SafeWork NSW inspector accused University of Sydney students and staff of 'antisemitic political activism' for supporting Palestine in a leaked report deepcutnews.com/p/safework-nsw…
15 people including children starved in #Gaza yesterday; #IDF stormed WHO compound & targeted body parts of youth seeking food. But some Australian journos are worried about whether it’s appropriate for @MehreenFaruqi to hold up a sign in parliament calling for sanctions
‘Slogans such as "Free Palestine" and "Gaza will be free" have been deemed "antisemitic" in a preliminary SafeWork NSW report into allegations of antisemitism at the University of Sydney. The report, prepared by a SafeWork NSW workplace inspector in February and seen by Deepcut,…
It seems to me that ending the intentional starvation and mass killings of Palestinians is more important than existential musings about Jewish “pain” and futures. Is this disconnect a strategy or a pathology?
Special issue of Harvard Educational Review on Palestine cancelled, after all the articles were ready to go, contracts signed and as genocide continued, directly impacting contributors. theguardian.com/education/2025…
Happening now: rally for Palestine, at the front of Parliament House, as part of the Convergence on Canberra, for the opening day of Parliament.