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ANU School of Music scores popular music studies regional and global conferences
One Direction, Madonna and John Lennon will be on the bill at ANU this December. Obviously not performing, they are instead among artists to be discussed at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music’s (IASPM) regional branch conference to be hosted in Canberra for the…
An Aboriginal view of the Canning Stock Route
A new National Museum of Australia (NMA) exhibition curated by ANU anthropologist Dr John Carty will reimagine the world's longest historic stock route through the paintings of the Aboriginal people whose land it cut through. Kaninjaku: Stories from the Canning Stock Route explores the…
The case for quotas in politics: the absence of women isn’t merit-based
By Marian Sawer, Emeritus Professor, School of Politics and International RelationsLast weekend’s ALP national conference unanimously adopted a resolution to have women make up 50% of Labor parliamentarians by 2025. Women already make up 43.1% of Labor MPs in all Australian parliaments, as well as…
An overdue appreciation of ST Gill, Australia’s first painter of modern life
By Sasha Grishin, Adjunct Professor of Art History, School of Literature Languages & Linguistics ST Gill may be the quintessential Australian colonial artist, known to anyone who has been educated in Australia and seen textbooks on Australian history full of Gill illustrations of…
Is downloading really stealing? The ethics of digital piracy
By Christian Barry, ANU School of PhilosophyMany millions of people throughout the world will illegally download the fifth season of Game of Thrones, released today by HBO. Legally speaking, what they will be doing is a violation of intellectual property rights, or “piracy”. But will they be…
Changing the soul: are conservatives the new radicals?
By Shaun Crowe, Centre for the Study of Australian Politics. Few members of the 20th-century political right were more important than Milton Friedman. As an academic, author, television presenter and adviser to Ronald Reagan – who once described his show Free to Choose as a “survival kit” for…
Indigenous languages won't survive if kids are learning only English
By Professor Jane Simpson, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics. The question of what language(s) to teach Indigenous students, what languages to teach them in, and how to go about it has been generating a little political heat (but not quite so much light) of late. On ABC’s…