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New album for Australia's National Carillon
The Australian National University (ANU) School of Music will partner with the National Capital Authority (NCA) to commission an album of new Australian music for the National Carillon in Canberra. The album has been commissioned as part of an Australia Council for the Arts Grant Program…
FactCheck Q&A: is $30 billion spent every year on 500,000 Indigenous people in Australia?
By Dr Nicholas Biddle, Fellow, ANU Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) and Depity Director, ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods (CSRM). Reviewed by Prof. Dennis Foley (University of Newcastle) and Elise Klein (University of Melbourne). This article first appeared in The…
ANU composer's work to debut in Detroit
A composer from The Australian National University (ANU) School of Music has teamed up with an award-winning poet from the United States to create a new work about growing up in Detroit and the city’s decline as the centre of the US auto industry. The work, titled Hum, will premiere in…
NSW Liberals' factional battles stand in way of reform, but changes in participation demand it
By Marija Taflaga, PhD candidate, ANU School of Politics and International Relations A recent ABC Four Corners program once again put the spotlight on the “cold war” in the New South Wales branch of the Liberal Party over internal party democracy. The conflict is not just a dispute over…
Lessons from the Depression era in how to lose government in a single term
By Dr Benjamin T Jones, ARC Research Fellow, ANU School of History Come July 2, Bill Shorten and Labor are hoping they will party like it’s 1931. That was the last election when a first-term government was given its marching orders. While there are certainly differences between Labor’s…
Why do we find it so hard to move on from the 80s?
By Associate Professor Frank Bongiorno, ANU School of History Why is it that the current darling of the pop scene, Taylor Swift, called her best-selling album (released in 2014) 1989? It was, granted, the year of her birth - but among her inspirations for it, she cited the 80s pop group Fine…
Spanish rock star Rosendo at ANU
One of Spain’s most influential rock stars Rosendo Mercado will perform with School of Music students at The Australian National University (ANU) on Friday ahead of his gig at ANU on Saturday 2 April. The rock star who is known to his fans only by his first name, will be available for a…