Research stories
Q&A: Literary festivals, their audiences and their impact on culture
Literary festivals worldwide have drawn crowds and controversies. With more than 450 of them happening each year in the UK and Australia, and many more in the US and other countries, it's worth examining these events to understand who attends and why - and what their impact is on the broader…
Music producer Mark Opitz honored with ANU Coombs Fellowship
The Australian National University has honoured multi-award winning record producer Mark Opitz with the prestigious HC Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship for 2018. Mr Opitz, known for creating the sound behind Australia's greatest bands like INXS, The Divinyls, Cold Chisel, The Angels and AC/DC, has…
ANU student to bring little-known Jane Austen work to Thai audience
Readers of Thai will soon be able to read Jane Austen’s Lady Susan in their native language, with the help of ANU Master of Translation student Angel Leelasorn. The short novel, published after Jane Austen’s death, will be Angel’s first time translating a work of fiction into Thai. “I have been…
ANU Archaeologist discovers Cornish barrow site
An archaeologist at The Australian National University (ANU) has discovered a prehistoric Bronze-Age barrow, or burial mound, on a hill in Cornwall and is about to start excavating the untouched site which overlooks the English Channel. The site dates back to around 2,000 BC and was discovered by…
ANU study reveals who is spreading online conspiracies
Due to the Internet, conspiracy theories are on the rise and playing an increasingly significant role in global politics. Now new research from The Australian National University (ANU) has analysed digital data to reveal exactly who is propagating them and why. Lead researcher Dr Colin Klein, of…
Keating’s Working Nation plan for jobs was hijacked by bureaucracy: cabinet papers 1994-95
By Prof. John Wanna, Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration, ANU The White Paper called Working Nation became the Labor government’s major economic statement in Paul Keating’s second term. However, the policy was principally an after-the-fact attempt to clean up a mess in the labour…
Cabinet papers 1994-95: How the republic was doomed without a directly elected president
By Prof. Frank Bongiorno, ANU School of HistoryNot long after defeat in the 1999 referendum, Malcolm Turnbull, a leading republican who had chaired the Republic Advisory Committee (RAC) appointed by Paul Keating, was licking his wounds.“We must not let the desperate desire not to be ‘elitist’ lead…