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ANU appoints Australia’s first female professor of demography
An “accidental academic” and leading scholar at The Australian National University (ANU) on mortality modelling has been appointed the country’s first female professor of demography. Professor Heather Booth, whose promotion in the School of Demography took effect in January, is now also the school…
ANU uncovering Tassie 19th century history
A team of archaeologists led by The Australian National University (ANU) has returned to the Triabunna Barracks site on Tasmania's east coast where British army troops were stationed in the 19th century. Team members first began work on the site in January 2016 and were so overwhelmed with…
FactCheck: what are the facts on rising child care prices?
By Ben Phillips, Associate Professor, ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods, and Guyonne Kalb, Professorial Research Fellow and Director of the Labour Economics and Social Policy Program, University of Melbourne "We’ve already had great success in terms of reducing the rate of price…
In a world awash with data, is the census still relevant?
By Dr Liz Allen, ANU Centre for Economic Policy Research The Australian Census came under intense scrutiny in the wake of #censusfail. Parliament conducted a review, the Senate an inquiry, and some in the media questioned the entire point. But cost and privacy concerns aside, population is one of…
More than 2,600 students offered early places at ANU
More than 2,600 students, including 800 from the ACT, have received an early offer to study at The Australian National University (ANU) in 2017. The figures follow the latest early round offers by the Universities Admissions Centre's (UAC) on Thursday. Merici College graduate Georgia…
1992-93 Cabinet records - The years Australia asked "who are we?"
Cabinet papers released by the National Archives show how the federal government tried to reshape Australia's image in 1992 and 1993 at a tumultuous time in politics, when then Prime Minister Paul Keating fought off a GST and won an election he described as the "sweetest victory of them all".…
ANU scholar wins fellowship to study racism and child development
A health and social scientist at The Australian National University has won a prestigious National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Career Development Fellowship to further her research into how early life adversity and racism damage children’s development. Dr Naomi Priest’s achievement…