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Call to acknowledge damaged marriages on Sorry Day
Sorry Day on 26 May is an opportunity to acknowledge children who were forcibly removed from loving families in inter-racial marriages, an historian at The Australian National University (ANU) has said. Professor Ann McGrath, Director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History, said state…
ANU student off to Geneva for World Trade Organisation internship
A student at The Australian National University (ANU) will work in Geneva on an eight-week internship with Australia’s Permanent Mission to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Zack Drury understands it’s the first time the mission has offered the opportunity, which will run 30 May-29 July. “I’ll…
More migration data needed for better policy: ANU demographer
Population researchers have called on governments to collect and share more information about migration to keep better track of the millions of people who move from one country to another each year. Record numbers of people have fled the ongoing conflict in Syria, bringing global attention to…
Scholarship for field work with Indigenous communities
Conducting fieldwork can be a challenge, especially when a project involves travelling to remote areas. But The Australian National University (ANU) offers a scholarship for PhD students and recent graduates from across Australia who are interested in doing field work with Indigenous communities…
Rupert Boyd: from Canberra to Carnegie Hall
Acclaimed New York based classical guitarist Rupert Boyd will return to where his love of music began as he rounds off his Australian tour with a concert in Canberra on Sunday May 22. The talented soloist and graduate of the ANU School of Music said that while he now travels the world…
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…
ANU author wins NSW Premier’s Literary Prize
ANU author Dr Merlinda Bobis has won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction at the New South Wales Premier's 2016 Literary Awards. Dr Bobis won the $40,000 prize for her novel Locust Girl. A Lovesong. The judges described her book as transfiguring fiction, with a distinctiveness,…