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For First Nations people, coronavirus has meant fewer services, separated families and over-policing: new report
Yesterday was National Sorry Day in Australia. It marks the anniversary of the tabling of the Bringing Them Home report, which chronicles decades of removals of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families. Sorry Day also acknowledges the strength of the Stolen Generations…
Art and Design grads win major international award
Every March in Munich, Germany, the Fashion Week of art, craft and design takes place. It is the International Trade Fair for the Skilled Trades, or Internationalen Handwerksmesse München. “It's a global focus for our discipline,” says Dr Rohan Nicol, Head of Jewellery & Object at the ANU…
Why good leaders need to hold the hose: how history might read Morrison’s coronavirus leadership
What does political leadership look like in a pandemic? Many of us probably carry images in our heads of what good leadership might be in a depression or a war. But before 2020 few of us would have had any conception of what political leadership might look like during a life-threatening public…
Two in three volunteers stopped vital work due to COVID-19
COVID-19 has had a significant impact on the economic and social benefits generated by the roughly seven million Australians who volunteer for an organisation or group, new analysis from The Australian National University (ANU) shows. With almost six million Australian volunteers…
Self-employed Australians’ hours have fallen 32% since coronavirus hit – double the impact on all employees
Australia Bureau of Statistics data has confirmed the massive economic hit from the COVID-19 pandemic, with total hours worked across the economy officially falling 9% between early March and early April 2020. Our analysis, using data from the quarterly ANUpoll, suggests the self-employed have…
Self-employed feel the sharp edge of COVID-19, survey shows
More than four-in-five self-employed Australians say their profits have taken a significant hit because of COVID-19, new analysis from The Australian National University (ANU) shows. The analysis of a recent survey of more than 3100 Australians was led by Professor Matthew Gray and…
Short programs help Australians skill up for the long term
Australians will be able to skill up, retrain and gain vital new knowledge from some of the world's best teachers through a range of short programs at The Australian National University (ANU). The certificates, covering areas as diverse as data mining, machine learning and rare Asia-Pacific…