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In conversation with Ross Garnaut from 2021-02-25T05:52:12

Ross Garnaut is in conversation on his new book, Reset: Restoring Australia after the Pandemic Recession, in which Garnaut shows how the COVID-19 crisis offers Australia the opportunity to reset it...

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In Conversation with Andrew Leigh from 2020-02-04T23:03:36

Andrew Leigh is in conversation with Brian Schmidt on Andrew's new book with Joshua Gans, Innovation + Equality: How to Create a Future That Is More Star Trek Than Terminator.

Is economic ...

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Solar Oration: Fleur Yaxley from 2019-12-16T05:55:02

The ANU Energy Update is the ECI's annual flagship event - a one-day summit that brings together energy researchers, policymakers, industry and the public to provide an overview of the latest world...

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Focus session: Future Electricity Markets Summit from 2019-12-16T05:26:44

The ANU Energy Update is the ECI's annual flagship event - a one-day summit that brings together energy researchers, policymakers, industry and the public to provide an overview of the latest world...

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Focus session: National Hydrogen Strategy from 2019-12-16T05:01:47

The ANU Energy Update is the ECI's annual flagship event - a one-day summit that brings together energy researchers, policymakers, industry and the public to provide an overview of the latest world...

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Special presentation: Ian Cronshaw, formerly International Energy Agency (IEA) from 2019-12-16T04:41:07

The ANU Energy Update is the ECI's annual flagship event - a one-day summit that brings together energy researchers, policymakers, industry and the public to provide an overview of the latest world...

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Keynote presentation: Audrey Zibelman, CEO, The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) from 2019-12-16T04:22:47

The ANU Energy Update is the ECI's annual flagship event - a one-day summit that brings together energy researchers, policymakers, industry and the public to provide an overview of the latest world...

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Treaty: Future legal issues for Indigenous agreement making in Australia from 2019-12-16T01:54:35

The Hon. Robert French AC speaks on the future legal issues of formalising a treaty agreement with Australia's First Nations people.

Mr French served as a Judge of the Federal Court of Aus...

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In conversation with William Dalrymple from 2019-10-30T06:44:13

William Dalrymple is in conversation with Meera Ashar on William's new book, The Anarchy. The Relentless Rise of the East India Company. In his most ambitious and riveting book to date, The Anarchy...

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The First Eight Project: So much more than a Prime Minister - Andrew Fisher (1862-1928) from 2019-10-30T02:57:44

Recorded at Australia House, London on 22 October 2019 with introduction by the Hon George Brandis QC, High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.

The remarkable contribution to Australian po...

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Chat 10 Looks 3 LIVE with Leigh Sales & Annabel Crabb from 2017-12-12T01:08:25

Lock up your tubas and your fairy wrens! In partnership with ANU Meet The Authors series, Chat 10 Looks 3 comes to Canberra for a live recording of the beloved podcast's bumper Christmas episode. Listen

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Books that Changed Humanity: Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) from 2017-05-26T00:21:25

Associate Professor Ben Penny discusses the significance of the Classical Chinese text 'Daodejing' ('Tao Te Ching'). Books that Changed Humanity is a book club with a difference. Each month, the AN...

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Voter interest hits record low in 2016 - ANU Election Study from 2016-12-20T02:47:18

In this podcast, Professor Ian McAllister, Dr Jill Sheppard and Sarah Cameron reveal the results of the latest Australian Election Study live from Parliament House.

Spoiler: The 2016 surve...

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The Secret Coldwar with John Blaxland from 2016-11-15T01:06:44

This talk gives an insiders account of Australia's national intelligence organisation as it grappled with continuing espionage from foreign agents and the rise of terrorist attacks on Australian so...

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Professor Leif Wenar on Blood Oil from 2016-11-11T04:42:27

Natural resources are the biggest source of unaccountable power in the world. For decades resource-fuelled authoritarians and extremists have forced endless crises on the West—and the ultimate sour...

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Conversations across the creek #5 from 2016-11-09T23:30:13

Evolution was the theme of the fifth in the Conversations Across the Creek series. Our speakers tackled this subject from their differing research viewpoints: the philosophy of biology; phylogeneti...

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2006 Last Lecture - Professor Chris Reus-Smit from 2016-10-20T01:09:38

The inaugural 2006 Last Lecture was given by Professor Chris Reus-Smit. Professor Reus-Smit delivered a fascinating lecture on the topic of 'Sources of Insecurity and Instability in the Contemporar...

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Books that Changed Humanity - On the Origin of Species from 2016-10-17T22:37:49

Books that Changed Humanity is a book club with a difference. Each month, the ANU Humanities Research Centre hosts an expert from one of a variety of disciplines, who will introduce and lead the di...

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Antony Green, ABC Elections Analyst, visits ANU from 2016-10-14T04:12:18

ABC elections analyst, Antony Green, spoke at the ANU School of Politics and International Relations on 12 October 2016.

In a lively and entertaining with students and staff, he discusses...

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8th H C Nugget Coombs Lecture - Unhappy anniversaries: what is there to celebrate? from 2016-10-11T02:54:34

For the Northern Territory, 2016 is the year of two big anniversaries: the 50th anniversary of the Wave Hill walk-off and the 40th anniversary of the Commonwealth Parliament's passing the Northern...

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Don Watson - American politics in the time of Trump from 2016-09-14T02:50:29

Don Watson joins Professor Bates Gill in conversation to discuss his new Quarterly Essay, 'Enemy Within. American Politics in the Time of Trump' which takes the reader on a journey into the heart o...

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Anthony Albanese and Karen Middleton in conversation with Alex Sloan from 2016-09-12T23:24:51

'Albanese: Telling it Straight' is Karen Middleton's new biography of Anthony Albanese. Through interviews with more than 70 friends, relatives, colleagues, associates and adversaries, and more tha...

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Books that Changed Humanity – The Communist Manifesto from 2016-09-12T06:49:39

Books that Changed Humanity is a book club with a difference. Each month, the ANU Humanities Research Centre hosts an expert from one of a variety of disciplines, who will introduce and lead the di...

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ANU/The Canberra Times meet the author event with Goenawan Mohamad from 2016-09-06T05:59:42

Acclaimed Indonesian writer and man of letters, Goenawan Mohamad joins ANU Emeritus Professor James Fox in conversation on Goenawan's new book, In Other Words, a volume of essays edited and transla...

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Inaugural PhB (Bachelor of Philosophy) symposium from 2016-09-06T05:58:28

Introduction by Boyd Hunter (PhB Convenor, CASS)

Launching the 2016 PhB Symposium—Professor Brian Schmidt (Vice Chancellor, ANU)

Ten PhB Student Presentations (in order)
1. P...

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Big questions in biology: Australia’s biodiversity, its past, present and future from 2016-09-05T06:49:43

In this discussion forum, four internationally recognised researchers will present their own research on different aspects of Australian biodiversity.

They will look back at historical evi...

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ANU/Canberra times meet the author event with Justin Cronin from 2016-09-05T06:49:18

Bestselling American author Justin Cronin - in his only Canberra appearance between the Melbourne and Brisbane Writers Festival - discusses his life and books with Colin Steele, particularly his re...

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ANU/The Canberra Times meet the author event with Peter Stefanovic from 2016-09-05T06:48:59

Peter is joined in conversation by Jack Waterford AM, former Editor-at-large at The Canberra Times to discuss his new book Hack in a Flak Jacket.

Hack in a Flak Jacket is a startlingly hon...

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Conversations Across the Creek #4 from 2016-08-29T23:54:36

The fourth in the Conversations Across the Creek series was a lively discussion about ethical issues with various technologies such as drones used in warfare, Artificial Intelligence, the benefits ...

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Books that Changed Humanity - The Ramayana from 2016-08-16T00:38:16

Books that Changed Humanity is a book club with a difference. Each month, the ANU Humanities Research Centre hosts an expert from one of a variety of disciplines, who will introduce and lead the di...

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2016 John Passmore Lecture – Changing visions of an egalitarian society from 2016-08-04T05:13:01

The 2016 John Passmore Lecture for the ANU School of Philosophy
By Professor Elizabeth Anderson, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Wom...

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Emeritus Faculty Annual Lecture 2016: Understanding the value of arts and culture from 2016-08-04T05:13:01

Delivered by Professor Geoffrey Crossick, Director of the United Kingdom’s Arts and Humanities Research Council's Cultural Value Project and author, with Patrycja Kaszynska, of the major 2016 Repor...

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2016 Jack Smart Memorial Lecture – Cognition as a social skill from 2016-08-04T05:13

Most contemporary social epistemology takes as its starting point individuals with sophisticated propositional attitudes and considers (i) how those individuals depend on each other to gain (or los...

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Richard Fidler in conversation with Alex Sloan from 2016-08-04T01:09:46

Richard Fidler joins ABC 666 Canberra's Alex Sloan in conversation to discuss his new book, Ghost Empire, his popular ABC radio series, Conversations with Richard Fidler, and the Doug Anthony All S...

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The Vote: 2016 Federal Election Series - Pre-election analysis from 2016-06-30T00:23:38

In this animated political discussion some of the University's most renowned public policy experts provide a final analysis of the election campaign prior to polling day.

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The Vote: 2016 Federal Election Series - Climate Change, Energy and the Environment from 2016-06-28T04:24:22

ANU is a leading centre for the study of climate change, energy change and the environment. In this event ANU experts discuss how these issues are being presented during the election.

Pane...

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The periodical enlightenment & romantic literature from 2016-06-28T04:07:46

The ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences' Second Professoriate Lecture of 2016 - The periodical enlightenment & romantic literature

The opening decades of the nineteenth century, which ...

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After Stella: taking stock of gender and literature in Australia from 2016-06-16T00:43:49

The past five years have seen a concerted attempt by feminists in the literary world to reveal and shift gender bias in reviewing, awards and publishing. This discussion brings figures from across ...

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The Vote: 2016 Federal Election Series - Health from 2016-06-15T03:32

Health policy is at the core of the 2016 Federal Election, regularly ranked as the issue most important to voters. In this event, ANU health policy experts discuss where the parties stand and what'...

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Public lecture by UN Privacy Rapporteur, Joe Cannataci from 2016-06-14T23:56:10

The human right to privacy raises global policy, legal and political challenges in the information age. Issues such as data retention, data breaches and the interaction between public security vers...

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The Vote: 2016 Federal Election Series - Social Policy from 2016-06-08T04:07:25

In this event some of the social policy issues most important to voters will be discussed by an experienced group of policy makers and researchers.

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Professor Matt Gray...

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The Vote: 2016 Federal Election Series - Tax and the Economy from 2016-06-01T01:19:35

Some of the University's most respected economic experts discuss the key tax and economic issues during the 2016 election campaign. Spoiler alert: there's slightly more to the Australian budget pre...

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The Vote: 2016 Federal Election Series - Security and Foreign Affairs from 2016-05-25T05:28:26

Three of the University's leading security and foreign affairs experts look at how the 2016 election might change the way Australia deals with the rest of the world.

Panellists:

P...

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Conversations Across the Creek #3 from 2016-05-24T04:07:49

The third in the Conversations Across the Creek series was a lively discussion about neuroscience, the dangerous ideas and influences when performing Shakespearean plays in 19th century Australia, ...

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Balancing the books? Post-budget policy analysis from 2016-05-24T00:47:42

This diverse group of panel members from academia, public policy and the media offer their thoughts on the 2016 budget, particularly in the context of what needs to be done both to prepare Australi...

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Lining up the ducks: a rare insight into how impossible policies become possible from 2016-05-23T00:57:26

Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt, Professor Bruce Chapman and Dr Ken Henry reflect on their experiences of how power, politics and personality have influenced the ability to introduce innovative policy both ...

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US Middle East Policy under President Obama and his successor from 2016-05-12T06:59:22

There is a widespread view among analysts and policy makers in the Middle East region and beyond that President Barack Obama’s handling of the oil-rich but volatile Middle East has not been deft. H...

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The Vote: 2016 Federal Election Series - Policy, Politics and Predictions from 2016-05-11T00:51:26

The Vote: 2016 Federal Election Series, presented in partnership with Policy Forum.net, is an opportunity to engage with ANU public policy experts during the 2016 Federal Election.

In this...

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Eat, drink and be artistic with Ken Done from 2016-05-02T06:14:57

Iconic Australian, Ken Done talks about his new book, A Life Coloured In, an exuberant memoir by one of Australia's best-loved artists.

Ken Done has an extraordinary place in the hearts of...

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The cyber security challenges posed by Generations Y and Z from 2016-05-02T05:56:08

This presentation looks at the unique characteristics of Generations Y and Z, and the implications of these characteristics for society and organisational security. The presentation also looks at t...

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Conversations Across the Creek #2 from 2016-04-27T05:12:33

The second in the Conversations Across the Creek series was a lively discussion of the abstract beauty of mathematics, the crisis of too much data, the possibilities of a universal language, and th...

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Sarah Ferguson and Lenore Taylor in conversation on 'The Killing Season: Uncut" from 2016-04-20T03:24:08

Australians came to the ABC's 2015 TV series The Killing Season in their droves, their fascination with the Rudd-Gillard struggle as unfinished as the saga itself. 'The Killing Season: Uncut' takes...

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Climate, fire and human evolution from 2016-04-12T02:06:40

This talk was recorded at the launch of Dr Andrew Glikson's and Professor Colin Groves' latest book 'Climate, Fire and Human Evolution: The Deep Time Dimensions of the Anthropocene'.

Dr G...

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Meet the author event with Stan Grant from 2016-02-29T22:24:16

Stan Grant discusses his new book, Talking To My Country, a powerful and personal meditation on race, culture and national identity.

Talking To My Country is not just about race, or about ...

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Kerry O'Brien in conversation with Lenore Taylor from 2015-11-05T21:53:24

Kerry O'Brien joined Lenore Taylor in conversation on 30 October 2015 to discuss his long awaited book, Keating.

As there will never be an autobiography nor a memoir from Paul Keating, th...

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Background to the Syrian refugee crisis from 2015-10-19T22:50:51

This talk looks at Syria’s history since the First World War, the events leading up to the Arab Spring uprising in Syria, the nature of the Syrian conflict since 2011, and the reasons for the curre...

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Federalism and Australia’s National Health and Health Insurance System from 2015-10-19T04:56:24

Despite the recent rhetoric about transferring responsibilities back to the States and ensuring each jurisdiction has sovereignty in its own sphere of responsibilities including to raise the revenu...

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Will Australia rejoin the world on Climate Change? from 2015-10-19T00:59:48

Australia has offered an emissions reduction target for the Paris talks that is significantly below that of the European Union and which even falls short of the United States target. Australia need...

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There is life on Mars, probably (!) from 2015-10-07T03:41:14

Malcolm Walter, Professor of Astrobiology (retired) at the University of NSW and Founding Director of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology, presents the 2015 The David Cooper Memorial Lecture. Listen

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David Marr in conversation with Laura Tingle from 2015-10-05T23:55:19

David Marr joins Laura Tingle in conversation to discuss his new quarterly essay on Bill Shorten – Faction Man Bill Shorten's Path to Power.

David Marr is the nation's leading writer of po...

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ANU/The Canberra Times meet the author event with Tim Flannery from 2015-10-05T23:55:17

Ten years after his internationally bestselling The Weather Makers, acclaimed scientist and author Tim Flannery argues that Earth's climate system is approaching a crisis. Catastrophe is not inevit...

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ANU/The Canberra Times meet the author event with Andrew Leigh from 2015-09-14T05:40:37

In The Luck of Politics, The Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP weaves together numbers and stories to show the many ways luck can change the course of political events.This is a book full of fascinating facts...

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Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson and Professor Brian Schmidt in conversation from 2015-09-14T04:50:27

When Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson was on campus last month he sat down for a conversation with Nobel laureate Professor Brian Schmidt to discuss the importance of science, the democratisation of space an...

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ANU/The Canberra Times meet the author event with Chris Bowen from 2015-09-14T04:29:53

Chris Bowen speaks about his latest book 'The Money Men' an in-depth look at the twelve most notable and interesting men to have held the office of Treasurer of Australia.

This talk brin...

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Climate Change: implications for Australia and the world from 2015-08-20T12:06:28

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report is the world's most comprehensive evaluation of climate change, its potential impacts and the choices we have for resp...

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?Smoking and mortality: the first large-scale Australian results from 2015-07-30T06:05:47

Australia is a world leader in tobacco control and currently has one of the lowest rates of smoking in the world. Reliable quantitative evidence on the relationship of tobacco smoking to mortality ...

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Professor Sir Richard Evans: Meet the historian from 2015-07-30T04:06:16

Professor Sir Richard Evans talks about German history and his advice for budding historians.

Sir Richard Evans is Regius Professor Emeritus of History and President of Wolfson College, U...

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How dangerous is it to live in a Mr Fluffy house? from 2015-07-30T04:06

On average, people who live, or have lived, in a Mr Fluffy house probably have higher exposure to asbestos than other Australians. How much this higher exposure increases their risk of asbestos-rel...

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How to solve the inequality problem that is plaguing capitalism from 2015-07-30T04:04:53

The specter of massive inequality is haunting modern capitalism, with a small elite – the 1%, 0.01%, 0.001% of billionaires and financiers and the like – gaining the bulk of the benefits of modern ...

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ANU/The Canberra Times meet the author event with Frank Brennan from 2015-07-23T05:04:09

From one of the leading thinkers of our time comes a landmark book on the case for constitutional reform - No Small Change: The Road to Recognition for Indigenous Australia by Frank Brennan.
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Migration and security: rhetoric and reality from 2015-07-03T06:10:44

Along with the increase in focus on the need for policymakers and the community to implement and support initiatives on countering violent extremism, there has been a tendency to put migration high...

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The atmosphere: past, present and future from 2015-06-26T00:30:07

Are we headed for a geological event horizon?

Dr Andrew Glikson explains how the rise of atmospheric greenhouse gases of 2-3 parts per million CO2 per year has reached an order of magnitud...

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ANU/The Canberra Times meet the author event with Michael Cooney - The Gillard Project from 2015-06-01T06:18:38

Michael Cooney was Julia Gillard's speechwriter for most of her time in office. He came to the job a true believer in every sense, with years of Labor experience behind him, including Policy Direct...

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ANU/The Canberra Times meet the author event with Xue Xinran from 2015-05-28T06:57:05

One in five of the world's population is Chinese, 300 million Chinese are under 30, and of these, most are only children as a result of the One Child Policy. What do these only children think and d...

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Rethinking the nature of prejudice from 2015-05-25T00:33:48

In this talk Professor John C Turner, from the School of Psychology at The Australian National University, poses the basic question, "what is the nature of "prejudice"?

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Stand & Deliver: Celebrating 50 years of the National Press Club from 2015-05-06T05:53:41

If Australian politics and public policy debates are a war of ideas, the National Press Club (NPC) is the battleground.

For the past half-century, the NPC has been the epicentre of politic...

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South China Sea Maritime dispute: political, legal & regional perspectives from 2015-05-06T04:29:49

The South China Sea is a major strategic waterway for trade and energy shipments to Asia’s major economies. It has been the focus of maritime disputes which have continued for more than six decades...

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Kate Grenville in conversation with Marion Halligan from 2015-04-16T00:43:29

When Kate Grenville’s mother, Nance Russell, died she left behind many fragments of memoir. These were the starting point for One Life, the story of a woman whose life spanned a century of tumult a...

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Why China will not become the dominant power in Asia from 2015-04-14T00:07:48

The belief that China will soon become the dominant power in Asia is based on assumptions that its continued and rapid economic rise, and its emergence as a regional peer of America’s in military t...

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Anna Bligh in conversation with The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP from 2015-04-01T22:57:44

ANU/Canberra Times meet the author event with Anna Bligh in conversation with The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP

Anna Bligh knows something about hard knocks and high walls. She was raised by a s...

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One Health and superbugs: The ever growing threat from foods and water from 2015-04-01T22:53:41

Antibiotic resistance is rapidly rising internationally. Many bacterial infections are now very difficult, and sometimes impossible, to treat. Gram negative bacteria are the pointy end of this gro...

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Towards a new Australian security from 2015-03-24T00:53:48

The incoming Head of the ANU National Security College, Professor Rory Medcalf, offers some assessments on the long-term policy choices Australians and their governments will need to make to advanc...

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2015 S T Lee Lecture with His Excellency Xanana Gusmão from 2015-03-23T23:08:28

His Excellency Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão is the Minister of Planning and Strategic Investment for the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. He has served as President of his country for five years, Prim...

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David Malouf in conversation with Gerard Vaughan from 2015-03-03T04:33:53

Internationally acclaimed author David Malouf joins Gerard Vaughan AM in conversation for a discussion featuring art, literature and music.

After exploring the idea of home, where and what...

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The Middle East: Is the ‘Islamic State’ vanquishable? from 2015-02-05T02:00:56

The rise of the so-called Islamic State (IS) on vast swathes of territories in Syria and Iraq, and the US-led military response to it, have introduced another complex dimension to an oil-rich but a...

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When does science matter? from 2015-01-15T23:45:04

Science has evolved over thousands of years of human enquiry to provide a rational basis for understanding and predicting what happens in the world around us.

We rely on science to enhanc...

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Blow Up The Lecture: Part 3 from 2015-01-09T03:29:08

In today’s classrooms academics and teachers are increasingly expected to incorporate new communication technologies into their curriculum. However, by adopting these new mediums are we reducing th...

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Solar energy in a sustainable world from 2015-01-08T01:05:22

Professor Steven Chu gives the plenary opening at the Light, Energy and the Environment Congress held on 5 December 2014.

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The Annual ANU Reconciliation Lecture: Is Australia big enough for reconciliation? from 2014-12-03T03:53:50

The Australian community has, to an unprecedented extent, become involved in reconciliation through Reconciliation Action Plans and other initiatives. There is acceptance that there is a broad resp...

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Academia and public policy - The case of the National Security College from 2014-11-13T05:20:19

In his valedictory address, outgoing Head of College Professor Michael L'Estrange argues that the NSC is a good example of how the worlds of public policy and academia can best work together.

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2014 ANU Last Lecture: Can we live without Classics? from 2014-11-06T04:20:19

In this podcast ANU classics expert Dr Ioannis Ziogas delivers the 2014 Last Lecture.

Classics, the study of the ancient Greek and Roman world, deals with the traditional literature of Gre...

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ANU/Canberra Times meet the author event with Hugh Mackay from 2014-11-05T03:50:09

This talk was given at The Australian National University on 22 October 2014.

The Art of Belonging advances the argument put forward in Mackay's bestselling The Good Life: a 'good life' is...

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Discovering a lost forest giant - 31 years of science in world's tallest forests from 2014-11-05T03:50:06

The 2014 OAA-ANU Lecture

The world’s tallest flowering plants – the Mountain Ash forests – lie just 90 minutes’ drive north-east from the Melbourne Cricket Ground. They are the world’s mo...

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Why it is so difficult to resolve peacefully intractable conflicts from 2014-11-03T22:47:31

One of the major questions raised regarding many protracted and violent intergroup conflicts is why the adversaries do not succeed in reaching a settlement that seems obvious and easily attainable ...

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How natural is justice? an Ombudsman's perspective from 2014-10-27T05:54:04

Seventeenth Geoffrey Sawer Lecture 2014

Geoffrey Sawer was the first Professor of Law at The Australian National University, appointed in 1950 at the age of 40. His fluid and incisive writ...

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Does Australia need new anti-terror laws? from 2014-10-27T05:54:02

After enacting an array of new anti-terror laws in the years following the September 11 attacks, Australia is now seeking to introduce additional laws in response to the threat posed by fighters re...

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ANU/Canberra Times meet the author event with Graeme Simsion from 2014-10-14T23:37:59

Graeme Simsion talks about his latest book, creative processes and adapting the Rosie Project for the big screen.

The Rosie Project was an international publishing phenomenon, with more t...

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Crafting democracies: Learning from political leaders to shape the future from 2014-10-14T02:16:19

Authoritarian regimes are under siege in many parts of the world. Some have already given way and others are likely to follow. Building democracies in their place will not be easy or quick, and in ...

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ANU/Canberra Times meet the author event: The Official History of ASIO 1949-1963 from 2014-10-14T00:59:30

With unprecedented access to their hitherto sealed records, David Horner tells the real story of Australia's domestic intelligence organisation, from shaky beginnings to the expulsion of Ivan Skrip...

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ANU/Canberra Times meet the author event with Annabel Crabb from 2014-10-08T00:40:04

This podcast was recorded at ANU on Thursday 3 October. Annabel Crabb is in conversation with Samantha Maiden, National Political Editor Sunday Telegraph.

Working women are in an advanced,...

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Australia's Antarctic strategic interests in the 21st century from 2014-10-07T04:01:53

Australia asserts sovereignty to 42 per cent of the Antarctic continent and has a long involvement in Antarctic exploration and science. Australia also has important economic and environmental inte...

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13th annual ANU Archives lecture: The Real War? Battles on the Australian home front 1914–19 from 2014-10-07T03:53:59

In the past decade more than 150 books with ‘Anzacs’ in the title have been published. But for Australians there was much more WWI than battles and fighting. The war bitterly divided Australian soc...

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Defence policy: what's wrong, and how to fix it from 2014-10-07T00:49:08

The Government’s decision to commission a new Defence White Paper – the third in just in just five years – suggests that Australian defence policy is in trouble.

That comes as no surprise,...

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In conversation with author Amy Tan: The Valley of Amazement from 2014-09-24T23:31:17

Born in the United States to immigrant Chinese parents, Amy Tan is an internationally celebrated writer. Her novels The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Boneset...

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Reforming Australia’s financial sector in a G-20 world from 2014-09-24T23:19:57

Alastair Walton, Chairman of BKK Partners and a former Co-Chairman of Goldman Sachs Australia, discusses Australia’s financial sector in the context of global developments impacting the industry.

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Are most positive findings in psychology false or exaggerated? An activist's perspective from 2014-09-22T23:46:49

Visiting international academic and influential science blogger Professor Jim Coyne gives a provocative talk at ANU Research School of Psychology.

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ANU/Canberra Times meet the author event with Greg Combet from 2014-09-04T06:45:49


Greg Combet has been central to some of the biggest public struggles of our time—on the waterfront, the collapse of an airline, compensation for asbestos victims, the campaign against unfair w...

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Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women, in conversation with Virginia Haussegger from 2014-08-28T04:41:26

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women, in conversation with Virginia Haussegger

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Why do we not have a vaccine against HIV or TB? from 2014-08-27T00:27:48

The Curtin Medalist for Excellence in Medical Research for 2013, Canberra’s Centenary Year, is Nobel Laureate Emeritus Professor Rolf Zinkernagel. The Medal was presented to Professor Zinkernagel f...

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The Hon. Michael Kirby on Human Rights in North Korea from 2014-08-26T23:54:16

The United Nations Human Rights Council established the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) in 2013, tasked with investigating the alleg...

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Blow up the lecture - II from 2014-08-06T05:15:50

What if the traditional lecture became a thing of the past?

Are there some forms of learning that are better suited to computers than the classroom?

Do students want to be talked...

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New momentum: can the success in Bali transform the WTO? from 2014-08-05T06:03:47

Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Ambassador Roberto Azevêdo delivered a public lecture on the 17th of July 2014 at ANU entitled, New momentum: can the success in Bali transform the...

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At the speed of volcanic eruptions from 2014-08-04T06:15:31

What causes some eruptions to be more explosive than others? Is it the total driving gas fuel, or how fast the gas escapes? This lecture examines both the volatile content and the speed of magma as...

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Our bodies, whose property? from 2014-07-31T23:42:37

Claiming the body as property has been represented as the best way to ensure control over our own choices and lives; a crucial way of asserting our rights to bodily integrity; and an important mean...

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Gender Institute 3rd Anniversary Event from 2014-07-31T23:32:26

The Gender Institute marked its 3rd anniversary on Friday 21 March 2014 with an inspirational lecture and discussion with Sex Discrimination Commissioner Ms Elizabeth Broderick from the Australian ...

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2014 Schuman Lecture: Indo-Pacific Lessons from a European Experiment from 2014-07-08T04:24:27

The European project was an attempt to pursue a strategic objective by economic means: continental peace by way of coal and steel. More than 60 years on, if measured against that original set of go...

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Malcolm Fraser urges an end to Aust-US alliance from 2014-06-25T04:14:31

Former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, AC CH, has used a talk at ANU to argue for Australia to step back from the Australia-US ANZUS military alliance.

Mr Fraser said Australia made a major...

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Cybersecurity- Mapping The Ethical Terrain from 2014-06-25T02:32:33

Governments and society are increasingly reliant on cyber systems. That reliance makes us vulnerable to cyber attacks, which can have powerful impacts on people's lives. Because of this, in liberal...

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Jeffrey Sachs - Strategies for deep decarbonisation of the global energy system from 2014-06-25T00:05:24

Energy lies at the heart of the world's sustainability challenge. On the one hand,
abundant, accessible, low-cost energy is vital for economic prosperity. On the
other hand, the world's pat...

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Indonesia's Ascent: Power, Leadership and Asia's Security Order from 2014-06-24T23:27:42

As Indonesia's economy grows, it is increasingly being referred to as a rising middle power and there is mounting speculation that Indonesia might eventually join the ranks of Asia's great powers. ...

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Pamela Denoon Lecture 2014: Wendy McCarthy AO from 2014-06-13T04:10

This year the annual Pamela Denoon lecture will be presented by Wendy McCarthy AO under the title:

Past victories, present challenges: Has Feminism failed Australian women?

Furthe...

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The Golson Lecture - Why did our ancestors become farmers? from 2014-06-13T03:51:35

The Golson Lecture was delivered at ANU by Professor Graeme Barker (Disney Professor of Archaeology and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge) on t...

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The future of education in an online world from 2014-03-14T04:42:08

Is it time to reimagine how we learn? Should we be moving from lecture halls to e-spaces – from books to tablets?Technology is opening up new ways to teach and learn.
It is also opening up new ...

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Blow Up the Lecture from 2014-03-14T01:24:06

Is the traditional lecture on the way out?

What will the classroom of the future look like?

Will the digital world transform the physical world of learning?

Will edX and ...

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