André Brett @DrDreHistorian Twitter profile

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André Brett

1 year

Hard to believe it's been a full year since @svdweerden and I published this with @OtagoUniPress I'm truly grateful for all the kind comments and generous reviews. I hope it plays some part in a better transport future Still copies to be had here:

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

10 months

Easily the wackiest country I've ever been to: - still use cheques - think hanging laundry on the line is a sign of poverty - still sign for card transactions - use imperial measures - just generally have a banking system the rest of the world found antiquated by the 1980s

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Why on earth does NZ need a Minister for Auckland when there's already a Mayor of Auck—oh, yes, I see

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5 years

@lnvict Are you new to food.

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André Brett

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5 years

When I cite a website in my research, I've recently made a point of archiving it in the Wayback Machine whenever possible and using the resulting URL in my footnotes. I've long since grown tired of broken links even in publications only a few years old.

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

2 months

I look forward to the ABS social media team having to explain to their boss tomorrow that the bureau has to release a line of merch because their little April Fools' gag became a bit too popular

Australian Bureau of Statistics

@ABSStats

2 months

We are excited to announce the official ABS capsule collection! Flaunt your love of statistics with our limited edition hats, bags and hoodies, or show off around the office with the ABS-branded mug. Use code Census10 for 10% off. Hurry while stocks last!!

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André Brett

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4 years

Every day my timeline is full of New Zealand tweets acting as if the country with a world-leading covid response is lurching from one fuck-up to another. It's a reminder of how insular and inward-looking NZ can be. Could things be better? Yes. Are they already v. good? Also yes.

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

2 years

That's why we had blue ticks for verification in the first place ya spangled bloody drongo

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@elonmusk

2 years

Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying “parody” will be permanently suspended

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

1 year

I see "worst PM" is trending on NZ Twitter, so I can only assume people are talking about unambiguously NZ's worst leader, Alfred Domett (1862–63): an economic ignoramus, a violent racist who pursued some of the most punitive policies against Māori, and a prolix poet to boot

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

3 years

I am hugely excited and unbelievably humbled to be able to say that in 2022 I will be taking up the position of lecturer in history at Curtin University. See you in a few months, Perth.

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

2 years

It's another election in Australia, so you know what that means for me: micro-party reviews! Early voting starts tomorrow, Monday 9 May, so I wanted to get something up. I'm very pressed for time this year, so I must review the various parties in spare moments. Hence, this... 1/

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

2 months

Tempted to get a shirt made with the text "For god's sake, don't glorify Gallipoli—it was a terrible fiasco, a total failure, and best forgotten" and see who takes the bait (it's a direct quote from Australia's last surviving participant in the Gallipoli campaign, Alec Campbell)

Tim Lyons

@Picketer

2 months

Only two weeks til Anzac Day. Time for multiple more confected panic attacks. Dutton to propose mandatory life sentences for wearing a *disrespectful* T Shirt near the Cenotaph or something.

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

3 years

Trying to make capybaras look bad on the Internet is a bold move, let’s see how it works out for you

The Wall Street Journal

@WSJ

3 years

Rodents the size of dogs are multiplying like sewer rats in an exclusive gated community of Argentina, harassing family pets and leaving XXL-size droppings

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

1 year

Live footage of Auckland's mayor:

Max 🏳️‍🌈

@max_tweedie

1 year

Wayne Brown is currently on RNZ “we need the rain to stop, that’s the main issue”

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1 year

Footscray this is based

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

2 years

This Saturday is election day in Victoria, and I'm here with a thread to: a) help you demystify all the micro-parties, and b) urge you in the strongest terms to vote below the line for the Legislative Council This is tweet is 1/24. Let's gooooo

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

6 years

New Zealand politics: our prime minister is popular and just had a baby. The last time a PM got rolled was 1997. Since 1996 all governments have ruled effectively via coalition or supply arrangements. Australian politics: ?????? ****^&#% !!!!!!!!! yeh FUCKEN G'DA—<<SIGNAL LOST>>

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

3 years

Folks, I don't quite believe I am this year's recipient of the Max Crawford Medal, but here's the announcement and apparently I really am. A truly unexpected honour.

Australian Academy of the Humanities

@HumanitiesAU

3 years

We are delighted to announce that Dr Andre Brett ( @DrDreHistorian ) of @UOW is the recipient of the 2021 Max Crawford Medal - Australia's most prestigious award for achievement and promise in the humanities by an #ECR . Read the full announcement here:

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

4 years

Nice traffic jam you've got there. Would be a shame if somebody took that adjacent railway line and... upgraded it for fast, frequent train services.

NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi - Wellington

@nztawgtn

4 years

Due to holiday congestion, motorists travelling northbound from Waikanae to Otaki on SH1 can expect delays between 30 to 45 minutes. We advise to plan your journey accordingly and allow extra time. For more information on predicted busy time visit: . ^SJ

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

10 months

Like, today's main character in the QT is funny because the further you dig, the more you realise it isn't that Yanks *can't* do modern payments like in Australia (buy a drink? pay for it with a quick tap!), it's that bars are doing some light tax fraud

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

1 year

I am fascinated that just about overnight, the concept of walkable 15-minute cities has gone from an urban planning idea that gets general assent from those who know of it into something the world's strangest conspiracy theorists want to believe is an authoritarian lockdown plot

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

4 years

This is pretty cool: the last Qantas 747 flight has just drawn the airline's kangaroo logo in the sky on its departure from Australia. #QF7474

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@DrDreHistorian

1 year

6 News Australia

@6NewsAU

1 year

#BREAKING 🚨 Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi dies aged 87 | #6NewsAU

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

5 years

A modest proposal: every major railway station requires a sushi bar, or similar shop, with its own resident blue penguins.

RNZ

@radionz

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A pair of little blue penguins that were removed to the harbour by police have apparently returned to their refuge under a Wellington sushi shop.

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

3 years

@Ghidorah64 @SonerCagaptay Well whoever created that sucks at Wikipedia, because Wikipedia has more articles about battles in New Zealand than there are dots on this map in New Zealand.

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

6 years

How I do archival research: a thread. I post this both to share my techniques in case they are useful to others, and to see if I'm doing anything hilariously outdated or have missed something that would make my life easier. 1/

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

5 years

@spil030 @lnvict I think some people have forgotten fruit is delicious.

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

5 years

I am a staff member of the faculty that will host this centre, and because the announcement is guaranteed to be controversial, I want to say one thing before the insults roll in: the negotiations were conducted in such secrecy that I found out the news via Twitter.

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

5 months

The natural borders of Victoria

Skyrail to Ouyen?

@VlineGunzel

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Some nights I dream of big Victoria, bordered by the Murray in the west, and the Murrumbidgee in the north.

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

3 years

It was bad enough to learn that "rort", a great word I would use in formal contexts, is an Australianism and unfamiliar to many other English speakers. But this morning I have learnt "stoush" is as well and—look, what are other Englishes even *doing*?

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

2 years

In a stunning twist that nobody could've foreseen except for anyone who knows anything about modal shift, patronage for a new service is growing steadily instead of appearing overnight. It will continue to grow with improved frequency, speed, and quality

Cheap fares see more people getting onboard Te Huia

The Hamilton to Auckland commuter train saw an increase in patronage..

www.stuff.co.nz

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

3 months

Better things being possible has never been more over Well done NZ, you're entrenching the worst transport of any advanced economy, a complete farce run by idiots whose heads contain only car fumes

'Road to nowhere': Govt criticised over $50 rego hike and fuel tax increase

The Government has unveiled its transport spending priorities.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

23 days

Students at Curtin University have established a Gaza solidarity encampment, I believe the first at a uni in Western Australia

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

4 years

Is Kim Jong Un dead, or is Kim Jong undead?

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

3 years

Folks, IT’S HERE. THE BOOK IS REAL

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

10 months

This isn't even a contest

Charles Cameron

@CharlesRanger23

10 months

What is the greatest Australian sporting moment? I'll go first Cathy freeman 2000 Olympics

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5 years

Oh my god, I'm in a Qantas Club and the TV is actually showing ABC News rather than Sky. Is this real life. It's actually not intolerable to sit within earshot of a television!

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André Brett

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3 years

Unless unavoidable, avoid citing URLs directly, people. I'm going through a book published less than four years ago and literally every URL I've followed from the endnotes is dead. Archive the page on the Wayback Machine (or similar) and cite it there.

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André Brett

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1 year

1/7 This evening, at the exact moment of tweeting this, marks 69 years since New Zealand's worst railway disaster. A lahar from Mt Ruapehu—a torrent of mud, ash, and water—demolished the railway bridge in front of the overnight express from Wellington to Auckland, killing 151

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André Brett

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2 years

Yeah I'm into NFTs: New Fucking Trains

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

3 years

I think a key attribute of being a historian is being regularly frustrated hearing that something is “unprecedented” when it actually has plenty of precedent.

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

1 year

If a cruise ship can’t manoeuvre without forcing public transport to be cancelled then it shouldn’t be allowed to operate in those waters

Auckland Transport Travel Alerts

@AT_TravelAlerts

1 year

Due to a manoeuvring cruise ship, the following Devonport ferry services have been cancelled: Downtown to Devonport: 12:30 Devonport to Downtown: 12:15, 12:45

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André Brett

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4 years

I've had to keep quiet about this news for a bit, so I'm very excited to say publicly that I've been awarded one of the @nlagovau fellowships for 2021! Looking forward to spending 12 weeks in Canberra to do final research for my enviro-railways manuscript.

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

2 years

Have you read the history of literally anywhere

The Economist

@TheEconomist

2 years

Countries do not redraw others’ borders by force. A successful Russian invasion of Ukraine would rip up that norm

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

3 years

Totally pumped to learn Australian higher ed will somehow get even worse in 2022, as if the govt hadn't already binned an entire generation of talent and decided students don't deserve to be taught by people with secure jobs or workloads that give them time and energy to care.

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

2 years

I decided to have a little rant about the Auckland rail omnishambles: "this just does not happen to entire transport networks in other cities. Moreover, it does not happen with the most privileged transport mode in New Zealand: roads."

Auckland omnishambles

Auckland’s entire railway network is to be closed and rebuilt in stages. How did we get here?

andrebrett.com

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

4 years

This evening I made my way to the Wollongong Local History Prize awards ceremony. I had submitted a few lines about trains for consideration, but I expected to sit quietly, applaud a winner, learn a bit more about Wollongong, and be on my way. I, uh. I won.

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1 month

We have so many talented historians in this country—careful researchers, insightful thinkers, able writers—and yet probably today's most-read history author is... this guy, who is posting balderdash about a man who was close with Hitler and led a whole corps for Nazi Germany

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

7 months

PREFERENTIAL VOTING WHEN This should be an easy 2PP Labour win. Fuck's sake NZ it's not hard, the Australians can handle it

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

4 years

I would like to suggest that Tova delete that take and pretend an acquaintance sent it from her phone.

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

10 months

@TechnicalBloke Absolutely maddening. On the upside, if you're in the States and have some foreign notes in your wallet, you can make an American's day simply by showing them money that comes in full colour

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3 years

Can confirm the medal is really real. My heartfelt gratitude again to the Academy, my nominators, and to all those who have supported me along the way—and made this career a collegial and delightful one.

Australian Academy of the Humanities

@HumanitiesAU

3 years

#AAHSymposium : The Max Crawford Medal is Australia’s most prestigious award for outstanding achievement & promise in the humanities by an early-career scholar. Congratulations to our 2020 recipient Dr @billy_griffiths and 2021 recipient Dr André Brett @DrDreHistorian ! ...

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Nick

@StrayDogNZ

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Lol lmao.

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André Brett

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1 year

Incredible posts a day apart capture the essence of NIMBYism: "We can't have trains because there aren't houses!" "We can't have houses because there aren't trains!"

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4 years

Early this morning, daylight saving concluded in New Zealand. This is, I think, a good opportunity to highlight two Kiwi innovations: it was the first country in the world to establish a national mean time and a New Zealander invented DST. How did that happen? Well, read on...

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André Brett

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2 years

What is this? My empty letterbox. Why does it matter? Because it’s 12:01pm NZ time, polls just closed in the local govt elections, and I have been disfranchised—this sight kept greeting me as I waited for my ballot to arrive and there is no other way for overseas voters to vote

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André Brett

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1 year

110mph is 177km/h, close to twice as fast as anything any train achieves in NZ today If you want an idea of how badly NZ rail development has stalled, our rail speed record of 125.5km/h has stood since 1940. We *could* have kept progressing our infra and trains—we just didn't

High Speed Rail Alliance

@HSRail

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Amtrak, IDOT and the Union Pacific started running at 110mph today on the Chicago - St. Louis Corridor!!! Big step forward.

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1 year

Excited for Chippy, the Hutt's Own Prime Minister, to announce the future political arrangements for the Commonwealth of Westernmost Hutt

1News

@1NewsNZ

1 year

PM eyes 'significant announcement' for Kiwis living in Australia

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

4 years

NSW: we're going to just bounce around 10–20 cases of covid for a good few weeks, let's not properly stamp this thing out or anything. New Zealand: four cases? Fuck that, let's crush this thing again.

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André Brett

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3 years

Now I know I've made it in Wollongong: a profile in the Mercury.

Honours for Wollongong train buff 'Dr Dré' - historian to the masses

A prestigious award has marked the UOW researcher as one to watch, and comes despite him being legally...

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

4 years

I am, unfortunately, one of the many people whose contract has not been renewed at an Australian uni. My postdoc ends tomorrow. I've casual tutoring to see me to the end of semester, but beyond that? Who knows. I've made a website if you'd like to hire me.

Home

Historian, researcher, writer

andrebrett.com

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André Brett

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2 years

29/ Shooters, Fishers and Farmers: get fucked No, really. Australia, face up to the fact you created the Christchurch terrorist. How DARE anyone here seek lax gun policy. You cowards. I'm from an NZ rural family; I KNOW guns are a) useful and b) need careful regulation. Fuck you

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André Brett

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10 months

Folks, don't make a mildly popular tweet just before you go to bed. My notifications are a mess this morning. It's been fun, especially joking about other US oddities (display price not being the price you pay is a standout frustration), but I gotta mute this now

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

1 year

Time for my favourite sci-fi fantasy: high speed rail bridge across the Tasman linking Australia to New Zealand via Lord Howe Island

metro mayoralty brain

@_night_brain__

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we should do pyramids or cathedrals but with a modern economy. whats a cool but useless structure we could build with 50 years and like 40% of GDP

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André Brett

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9 months

It's extraordinary how this thing manages to get uglier and sillier with every new photo that I see

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@ItsBillN

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look at the size of that thing

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3 years

Guess who just took his first ride on a Canberra tram.

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

2 years

The French X3800 class of diesel railcar is quite possibly the most comical-looking train I've ever seen

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

5 years

History. You have “invented” the discipline of History. How is this a real article rather than a parody of “what existing thing have STEM bros ‘invented’ today?”

The Atlantic

@TheAtlantic

5 years

Why did the Industrial Revolution start when it did? Why did Silicon Valley happen in California rather than Japan or Boston? Human progress is understudied, and @patrickc and @tylercowen want to change that.

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5 years

I've worked on three slow TV docos. Tonight's one on the #IndianPacific was the most enjoyable—a thrill to research even as I almost pulled an all-nighter to get my contribution in on time, one hella sprint. I hope you're all really enjoying it too. #SlowSummer

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3 years

Remember the drongos who were calling Te Huia a failure after about 3 days? What a surprise they were totally wrong. Look at how shocked I am that once you give Kiwis *any* sort of train, they want more of the good stuff.

Hamilton-Auckland train services to increase sooner rather than later

Overwhelming public support for more frequent services has prompted the regional council to act, including trips into Auckland's CBD.

www.stuff.co.nz

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3 years

I'm sorry but people who try to appropriate disability activism to argue for car dependency are the worst. It's also ironic given that begrudging provision of PT in the late 20th century was "for the crips". We need good, accessible cities, and the fewer cars the better.

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André Brett

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2 years

Both myself and Donald Bradman have batted in games of cricket

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@MaximeBernier

2 years

Both the vaccinated and unvaccinated can spread the virus.

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8 months

Some fun facts on Jacinta Allan as 49th premier of Victoria: - second woman to hold the office - first state premier to hold a La Trobe Uni degree - first state premier born in Bendigo (by comparison, 10x Melb, 3x Ballarat, 1x Geelong, 11x other Vic, 1x SA, 2x NSW, 20x UK/IRE)

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1 year

If I am learning anything from today's Sydney-vs-Melbourne discourse, it is that Sydney sure spends a lot of time thinking about how it doesn't think about Melbourne

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1 year

This is the most incredible disability-washing I've seen. THERE ARE LITERALLY NO TRAINS RUNNING IN AUCKLAND THIS WEEKEND My tip to able-bodied people is to run proper fucking transport networks that don't take the car as default

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@AklTransport

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This Saturday we're teaming up with Auckland One Rail to support International Day of Persons with Disabilities. We're encouraging those who are able-bodied to support others, share space with others, and celebrate our customers with disabilities. More: .

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3 years

Briefing paper for the government on Auckland light rail: "a project of this scale and complexity [is] almost unprecedented in New Zealand" Auckland, 1902–1956:

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@DrDreHistorian

5 months

Utterly bonkers proposal here to destroy millions of wills, as if digitisation replaces rather than supplements physical archives. The challenges of ongoing compatibility and accessibility for digitised archives are massive—the belief "digital is forever" could not be more wrong

Ministry of Justice

@MoJGovUK

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Are you a history or ancestry enthusiast? We’re proposing to digitise millions of wills dating back to the 1800s, making them easier for the public to access. Take a fascinating look into our storage archive in Birmingham and have your say:

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Perth hasn't seen trams on its streets for 65 years, and will continue to wait if the City of Stirling is gullible enough to fall for this overpriced bendy bus gadgetbahn concept rather than spend roughly the same money on proven and more energy-efficient steel-on-steel tech

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Perth hasn't seen trams on its streets for 65 years, but that could be about to change. @Rach_Clifford #9News

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2 years

It regularly blows my mind how many people in Australia and New Zealand (especially New Zealand, it seems to me) are convinced that becoming a republic means leaving the Commonwealth of Nations, given that two-thirds of Commonwealth countries are republics, 34 of 54

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

4 years

The passenger rail book is HAPPENING. @OtagoUniPress will publish Can't Get There from Here: NZ's Shrinking Passenger Rail Network in 2021 (Sept, tbc). Lots of maps! Pics! Text that analyses the past and imagines the future. Here are 2 sample paragraphs to pique your interest.

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10 months

@spephton Oh this one is stupefying. I normally take linguistic differences as local variations that are not intrinsically better or worse, but on this the Americans are plain wrong

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@DrDreHistorian

5 months

I would like to express my full support for Neal and his action against the Tasmanian people

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Just learned that the people of Tasmania are being harassed by a 600kg elephant seal named Neal. He likes to nap under cars and on the road.

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4 years

Can confirm I have never cited a statue in my career as a historian.

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I got a whole history degree without visiting a single statue I think the sanctity of historical record will be safe if we toss some racist fuckers away

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I am on the floor, I have ACTUAL TEARS, we are THE FIRST WORLD CHAMPIONS OF TEST CRICKET. This plucky little country that could, I never thought I would see in my LIFE that New Zealand could do this. This is the pinnacle of sport, the absolute fucking summit. This is it.

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@DrDreHistorian

5 years

I've just noticed a conference where earlybird registration closes the day abstracts are due, so let me say to organisers everywhere: don't do this. Most postgrads/ECRs/casuals can't afford to commit before abstracts accepted and institutional support often unavailable otherwise.

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1 year

Comparison: night train network of New Zealand since November 2004

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@seatsixtyone

1 year

For those yet to see it: Europe's sleeper trains, mapped...

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5 years

I've spent a lot of time in Adelaide these past few months, looking at maps regularly. And let me tell you, I've found King William Street both weird and interesting. Let me tell you why.

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@DrDreHistorian

4 years

Genter: we propose $9b for rail Taxpayers Union: where's someone to balance the crazy lady Me: yeah let's go $27b TU: wait— Me: spend it over five years, that's only ~$1,000/yr per capita TU: but— Me: for transport that'll see us into the 2060s TU: no— Me: haha train go choo-choo

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

1 year

The fact the US doesn't have wheelie bins like Australia and NZ just mystifies me. This is a solved problem!

Curbed

@Curbed

1 year

There has to be a solution to the never-ending rat feast

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

1 year

Chris Minns

@ChrisMinnsMP

1 year

With deconstruction almost complete, today we farewell one of the last remaining monorail stations. You were here for a good time, not a long one. Gone but not forgotten.

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

2 years

What bugs me in discourse on AKL–WGN passenger rail is a common fixation on travel between those two terminals. One of rail's perks is it facilitates many intermediate journeys: the Main Trunk passes through two more cities and numerous regional towns

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

7 years

He: studied. She: studied, did his bibliography, did the housework, and RAISED A CHILD. #ThanksForTyping

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

3 months

I’m enjoying that some guy from Moncton, New Brunswick, trying to claim Melbourne’s whole experience of the MCG and public transport doesn’t happen is motivating Australians to come up with new insulting nicknames for Canadians, like “maple Seppo” and “snow Seppo”

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

3 years

Road: please build me Road: I'll make a huge loss Road: but please build me vroom vroom NZ: sure Rail: I can help solve pollution, congestion, traffic deaths Rail: you name it I can do it Rail: clean and green and fuck I look good NZ: lol fuck off until you turn a huge profit

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

2 years

Here are the 6 grants the ARC's College of Experts recommended for funding—a very difficult bar to clear, all assuredly great projects by talented people—but which Stuart Robert vetoed. The partisan politics and anti-intellectualism are obvious. The minister should have no veto

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

1 year

Lost somewhere between Newman and Perth? Oh, well that will be easy to find then

Dan Smith

@0DanSmith

1 year

#BREAKING : WA authorities are searching for a missing radioactive capsule that was lost somewhere between a mine site in Newman and the outskirts of Perth. People are being urged to stay away from the capsule if they see it because of its radioactive properties.

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

3 months

Some Seppos are so weird about water. Any Australian adult or child knows that if you’re going to be outside for any length of time in warm weather, carry plenty of water (and put on your damn sunblock and a hat)

Ashley Fitzgerald

@RizomaSchool

3 months

The children's water bottle phenomenon needs to stop. It's a transitional object like linus' disgusting blanket. Grow up! Use a water fountain.

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

11 months

NZ: we are very extremely worried about a brain drain of talented Kiwis overseas Also NZ: let’s just quietly stand aside and let our universities disintegrate, accelerating the brain drain

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

1 year

Punks learnt this lesson in the 1970s. Anyone who is still confused about this almost half a century later is either an idiot or being disingenuous

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

4 years

I'm pretty thrilled to announce that I have received a Humanities Travelling Fellowship from the Australian Academy of the Humanities. This funding will support my research on colonial separation movements in New Zealand—once I can get into the country anyway!

Australian Academy of the Humanities

@HumanitiesAU

4 years

Congratulations to the 10 recipients of the Academy's 2020 round of #Humanities Travelling Fellowships: @DrDreHistorian , Shuxia Chen, @emlynkd @Simon_SGraham @benhuf @JalandoniAndrea Helen Ngo, Keith Rathbone, Jason Tuckwell & @maramawhyte

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André Brett

@DrDreHistorian

1 year

We are not just on strike at Curtin Uni—we’ve got Billy Bragg to inspire us that better things *are* possible!

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