Past events
Indigenous Justice Workshop
Workshop
Image: Detail from Guach (2006) by Terry Ngamandara Wilson Presented by the ANU Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research Registration (A$70) is essential and places are limited. Focus The focus of the workshop will be on indigenous policy and directions and initiatives…
Changes to the size and geographic location of the Indigenous population, 2011 – 2016: Findings from the Census of Population and Housing
Seminar
This seminar provides an overview of the changing size and spatial distribution of the Indigenous population of Australia, comparing the results of the 2011 and 2016 censuses. The paper summarises four key aspects of the intercensal change: a) the growth in the estimated population of Indigenous…
SDSC War Studies Seminar: 75th Anniversary of the battle for Milne Bay
Lecture
A special War Studies Seminar remembering the 75th Anniversary of the battle for Milne Bay. This special seminar coincides with the death of Private Clark Davis Ivins, who died of wounds received at the Battle of Milne Bay in Papua New Guinea in 1942. Private Ivins was shot by Japanese sniper fire…
Virtual Anatomy of the Brain and Skull: Reconnecting Palaeoanthropology to Evolutionary Primatology
Seminar
Homo sapiens is a species within the Order Primates, yet many studies focusing on brain evolution almost exclusively assess the human lineage with only a few species of hominoids or cercopithecoids included. By examining the human lineage in isolation, a very narrow glimpse of brain evolution…
The Corrupt Cannot Fight Corruption
Lecture
In this seminar, the speaker will draw from the literature on experiences of anti-corruption agencies and his own experience as the former head of Papua New Guinea’s anti-corruption Investigation Task-Force Sweep, to show how addressing police corruption is the lynchpin to combating corruption.…
Bearing Witness: the remarkable life of Charles Bean
Seminar
Peter Rees: Charles Bean and Len Waters: Contrasting studies in military life Peter Rees published his biography of Charles Bean in 2015 (Bearing Witness, Allen & Unwin, 2015), a study which for the first time captured the essence of this giant in Australian military history. Years of research…
Clark Davis Ivins Memorial Endowment Event
Other
Please join us and the family of Clark Davis Ivins as we award the 2017 Clark Davis Ivins Memoral Prize for First Year Security Students and the 2017 Travel Grants. The inaugural Clark Davis Ivins Memorial Travel Grants will be presented by the Akers family (sister, nephew and niece of Private…