ANU News

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.

Whether Peter Dutton was really any good, we may never know. Barring a turnaround in events, the feisty former Queensland policeman looks to have turned his back on a continuing political career after the redistribution in his always-marginal seat of Dickson and his failed attempt to win preselection for the safe Liberal seat of McPherson.

Last week Australian trade unionists and pro-democracy activists announced a reinvigorated campaign to stop Australian companies from doing business in Burma.

If the Global Financial Crisis was a ‘stress test’ for the auditing of companies’ financial statements then Australian auditing has performed well, despite a recent warning, but there is still room for improvement, according to a new study.

Australian general practitioners and their staff commonly encounter aggressive patients who are verbally abusive, display threatening behaviour or cause property damage, a national study reveals.

Indonesia is bucking a global “recession of democracy” by successfully entrenching democratic institutions since it ceased being a military-backed authoritarian regime in 1998, argued a leading expert in Canberra today.