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Amanda Harris

@amaharrisusyd.bsky.social

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Cultural historian, musicologist, ARC Future Fellow. PARADISEC Sydney. Author “Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance” (Bloomsbury 2020)

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Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social · 19d

And some media stories about Deveni Temu's Peroveta Singers of Canberra and their work with PARADISEC going out today. Here's the first on Pacific Beat: PARADISEC digitises Pacific music recordings dating back decades in more than 1300 languages. www.abc.net.au/pacific/prog... via @ABCaustralia

Canberra singing group brings 'lost' Pacific music back to life - ABC Pacific

For the past 20 years, PARADISEC has digitised music recordings which date back decades and feature more than 1300 Pacific languages.

www.abc.net.au

Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social · 20d

Our new article on songs that hold histories & people from the diaspora interacting with archives today:
with Deveni Temu, Steven Gagau and Jodie Kell 'Archived sound and creative engagements with PNG cultural heritage in Australia' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Archived sound and creative engagements with Papua New Guinean cultural heritage in Australia

For people in the region of Oceania and Indigenous Australia, histories have long been held in oral and embodied forms. Pacific historians have pointed to the ‘vast store of lived and relived exper...

www.tandfonline.com

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Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social · Sep 16

50 Years today of an Independent Papua New Guinea!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Before PNG gained independence, it was a colony of Australia

On the foreshore of Papua New Guinea's capital city, Ela Beach is where locals come to exercise, mingle and unwind at the end of a long day. But it wasn't always this way.

www.abc.net.au

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Calla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · Aug 3

So proud to work with Lorena, Sarah and Ella on this series.

Here is part one: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities

Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...

www.theguardian.com

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Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social · Aug 4

Fortunately, this excellent Guardian article is likely to get a much wider readership than the diary publication

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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · Jul 27

More than 100 high-profile and distinguished Australians -and BA graduates- have signed the @austhistassoc.bsky.social open letter calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates: a policy that punishes humanities students with life-changing debts: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Tim Winton among 100 high-profile Australians calling for university fees that don’t ‘punish’ arts students

Open letter urges Labor to reverse JRG scheme, introduced by Coalition in 2021, as cost of humanities degrees reaches more than $50,000

www.theguardian.com

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Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social · Jul 24

"this is a moment that requires urgent action — to reverse the assault on the humanities and recognise that our history and cultural life are vital to Australia’s civic intelligence and national identity" insidestory.org.au/the-jewel-in...

The jewel in the crown of the ANU • Tom Griffiths & Mark McKenna

Celebrated by previous vice-chancellors, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and its fellow national project, the Australian National Dictionary, are threatened by university cuts

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Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social · Feb 14

Covering off my research interests from all the angles - looking forward to diving into this stack of newly arrived books

five books published by Cambridge University Press and Bloomsbury

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