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CASS achieves outstanding ERA results
The College has received an outstanding result in the Commonwealth Government’s major research quality measure - the Excellence in Research for Australia initiative (ERA). These results reinforce the College’s standing as the leading research institution in Australia across Humanities, Arts and…
The National Centre of Biography to launch online edition
The Australian Dictionary of Biography is edited by staff at the National Centre of Biography at ANU. The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) is the largest and longest-running collaborative project in the arts and social sciences in Australia. Since it started in 1959, over 4,000 authors…
New book launch: Living with fire
Living with fire, a new book by Dr Christine Hansen and Professor Tom Griffiths was launched on Friday 23 November 2012 in Steels Creek, Victoria, one of the communities impacted by the Black Saturday bushfires. Titled Living with fire: People, nature and history in Steels Creek (CSIRO…
ANU-Led Research Evidence Helps Shape Income Management in the Northern Territory
The first major report evaluating new income management measures in the Northern Territory has been released by Indigenous Affairs Minister, Jenny Macklin. ANU researchers, Rob Bray and Matthew Gray, were the lead authors of the report that also involved the Australian Institute of Family Studies…
2012 Milpirri Festival the best yet
ANU’s first Australian Research Council Discovery Indigenous Awardee, Mr Wanta Patrick, has returned to ANU after directing the 2012 Milpirri Festival in the remote town of Lajamanu in Australia’s Tanami Desert. Based on the theme of Pulyaranyi, the winds of change that stoke the fire, drew…
100 Migratory
The work of Monica L Edmondson, a Swedish artist with a connection to Canberra having studied at the Canberra School of Art at ANU, will be on display at the Embassy of Sweden as part of her 100 MIGRATORY project. Ms Edmonson’s project is an ‘extensive, local and world wide project’ featuring one…
The Politics of Music conference
This week, musicians and scholars from all over Australia and across the world will gather at the ANU School of Music for the 35th Annual Conference on the Musicological Society of Australia on the Politics of Music on 3–5 December. Convened by the Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Dr…