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ANU music marathon to honour Satie anniversary
Musicians from The Australian National University (ANU) School of Music will spend up to six hours performing a composition by French composer Erik Satie on Saturday to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth. The composition, called Vexations, will involve 840 repetitions and will include…
Andrew Podger AO wins international award for public administration
Australian National University Professor of Public Policy, Andrew Podger AO, has won an international award for his outstanding contributions to public service.Professor Podger, who works in the Australia New Zealand School of Government in the Research School of Social Sciences, received the prize…
ANU students receive CAS Hawker Scholarships
An international relations student from the College of Arts and Social Sciences is among two ANU students who've won prestigious Charles Hawker Scholarships for their academic excellence and their contribution to the community. Alasdair McCall, studying a Bachelor of…
Lessons from history in how to run a good election campaign – or how to avoid a really bad one
By Associate Professor Frank Bongior, ANU School of HistoryFederal elections are fecund sources of lessons for the political class. From 1993 they learned not to make a big target of yourself as an opposition party. The Coalition’s Fightback! gave Paul Keating hundreds of pages to work with. It…
Microfinance impact mixed: ANU study
Research by Australian National University (ANU) anthropologist Dr Caroline Schuster has found microfinance loans are not as effective for fighting poverty as many had predicted. The aim of microfinancing is to provide loans to disadvantaged people, mostly women, who would otherwise…
Election budgets can only ever be a charade
By Professor John Wanna, Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration, The Australia and New Zealand School of Government, ANU Research School of Social Sciences Election budgets are notoriously hard to get right. Governments are tempted to announce electoral sweeteners, make new promises,…
New ANU lecturer shortlisted for NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
A recently appointed ANU Honorary Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing has been shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier’s 2016 Literary Awards. Dr Merlinda Bobis, who describes herself as a novelist, poet, performance artist and academic, has been shortlisted for the Christina Stead…