ANU News

Three pioneering women who each broke new ground in their political careers will reflect on Australian progress towards closing the political gender gap at an ANU symposium, Gender, Politics and Biography, being held at Old Parliament House today.

The Australian National University is concerned to hear that Professor Brij Lal, an expert in Fiji politics, has been expelled by military authorities in Fiji. We understand he was taken for questioning shortly after he gave several media interviews commenting about the political situation in Fiji.

People who survive traumatic events often relive the experience over and over again. Now an ANU researcher wants to explore if people with depression experience similar intrusive memories of key events in their life.

Hope and perseverance drive the enormous number of young Indians with ambitions to work in government, reports Kate Sullivan

Male Fiddler Crabs will quite happily protect a female neighbour, but do so partly in exchange for sex, according to a new study.

A series of small telescopes being installed at The Australian National University’s Siding Spring observatory are set to lead to big discoveries as part of the largest network of interconnected telescopes in the southern hemisphere.

An international group of plant scientists, led by Dr Gonzalo Estavillo and Professor Barry Pogson at The Australian National University have discovered a subtle mutation in Arabidopsis, a small, rapid growing plant, which may have important and far reaching implications for establishing drought resistance throughout the plant kingdom.

A national forum of experts from peak Aboriginal organisations, homeland resource agencies and leading academics has found there is a desperate need for new policy approaches to small remote Aboriginal communities and homelands/outstations across Australia.

Is Thailand a country in crisis, reeling from the impact of the global financial crisis while battling political and economic corruption? That’s the question to be addressed by some of the region’s leading experts at the Thailand Update Conference 2009 which begins on Monday at ANU.

There is a precedent for the use of force to remove the asylum seekers onboard the Oceanic Viking if they cannot be persuaded to peacefully disembark, according to an academic from ANU.

Former Prime Minister The Right Hon Malcolm Fraser, AC, CH discussed the world’s failure to disarm nuclear weapons and what Australia can do about it at a public lecture at ANU.

What do at risk high school students, elite cyclists and radar communication systems have in common? They are all the subjects of innovative software solutions and projects aimed at solving industry problems and on display at The Australian National University today.

A book that questions the future of the National Party of Australia will be launch by Senator Barnaby Joyce at ANU tonight.

The number of people in Australia with chronic hepatitis B infection (HBV) is predicted to increase markedly over the next decade, according to a new report released by the Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health (ACERH) at The Australian National University (ANU).

Comedian, writer and climate change activist Rod Quantock, will employ his special brand of ‘medicinal’ humour and dissect the science of climate change, during the National Water Week Lecture at The Australian National University today.

Fiji’s education system could be dramatically improved by listening to the views of that country’s children and young people, according to an academic from The Australian National University.

The question of whether Australia’s good governance is in jeopardy will be addressed by three of the nation’s leading experts in policy advice and law making, as part of a public forum at The Australian National University.

With the world’s gaze firmly fixed on the Pacific after the recent series of tsunamis and earthquakes, leading experts from Australia, Japan, and New Zealand will gather to cast their eyes over some of the most critical issues relating to Fiji, Tonga and the wider Pacific Islands.

An ANU academic has been nominated for an Asia Pacific Screen Award for his real life documentary that tells the story of 350 Indian boys finding their way in an orphanage on the outskirts of New Delhi.