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Census 2016: what’s changed for Indigenous Australians?
By Associate Professor Nicholas Biddle, Senior Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) and Deputy Director of the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods (CSRM). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a complicated history with the Australian…
Census 2016 puts on display the increasing diversity in Australians’ relationships
By Associate Professor Edith Gray, Head of the ANU School of Demography, and Associate Professor Ann Evans, Associate Dean (Research Training), College of Arts and Social Sciences and Fellow, ANU School of Demography. The types of romantic relationships Australians have, as well as the…
How the gas industry can help fight climate change in Siberia
By Emeritus Professor Anthony Hopkins, School of Sociology. Permafrost is the layer of permanently frozen earth – over a 1,000 metres thick in some places – that lies just beneath the land surface in Arctic regions. It formed over the past few million years when ice ages predominated.…
Census 2016 reveals Australia is becoming much more diverse – but can we trust the data?
By Dr Nicholas Biddle, Senior Fellow at the ANU Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research and Deputy Director of the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods. According to data released today, there were 23,401,892 people who were counted in Australia on the night of the 2016…
What the underground market for ransomware looks like
By Professor Roderic Broadhurst, Professor of Criminology, College of Arts and Social Science, and Fellow Research, College of Asia and the Pacific. The attack of ransomware “WannaCry” has put governments and businesses around the world on edge, but in fact the underground market…
Indigenous composers record new works at ANU
Emerging Indigenous composers from around Australia have recorded a series of new compositions at ANU under a new mentoring program run out of the ANU School of Music. The five established Indigenous musicians from a range of musical backgrounds are taking a new step in their careers by…
ANU academic’s translation of Arabic Frankenstein novel wins major "literary award in the category of Foreign Literature" in France
An ANU academic’s translation of an Arabic Frankenstein novel has won France’s highest award for literary science fiction, the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire 2017. It’s the latest accolade for France Meyer, whose translation of Frankenstein in Baghdad by Iraqi author Ahmed Saadawi, has…