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Politics by numbers
Professor Ian McAllister has been researching voter behaviour for more than 40 years. ANN JONES discovers that the polling numbers don’t always add up. The voter stands, hunched at a cardboard booth, pressing pen to paper, marking out his version of democracy. The booth is a bit wobbly and…
School of Art Alumni Exhibition
Lan Nguyen-hoan, Carbon Filter, 2011 cardboard, paper, 29 x 11 x 15cm In the quiet hall of the ANU Art School Gallery hangs an extraordinary alumni exhibition. The exhibition features more than 15 works of art, including sculpture, but there is still a sense of expansive space as you enter…
Accomplishing missions
Surrounded by ice, the air temperature outside is minus 5 degrees Celsius. That’s in summer, and the rain and snow rarely gives in. Swapping summer sunshine for snow has resulted in some remarkable discoveries for Dr Mike Pearson. For 10 years Dr Pearson, Chairman of the Institute for…
An image isn't everything
A picture is worth a thousand words, but who chooses which words the picture represents? Dr Fiona Jenkins from the ANU School of Philosophy has been deconstructing the iconic image of Abul Jafari’s coffin being carried onto a plane on Christmas Island, bound for Melbourne where the ten-week old…
Jobs up, climate change down in public eye
Public concern about the economy and job security has doubled since 2010, while concern about global warming has halved. More than half of the people surveyed in the latest ANUpoll listed the economy and jobs among the most important issues Australia is facing right now. The second most…
Ngaliya Warlpiri rights to 'heartland' recognised
Representatives from each of the 12 land holding groups with Warlpiri woman, Bess Price, Member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly and Mr Justice Reeves. Researchers from the School of Archaeology and Anthropology have been instrumental in the Ngaliya Warlpiri people from the…
The new shape of success
The craftsmanship that went into each exquisite glass trophy awarded at last night’s Australian Dance Awards parallels the choreography of a perfectly executed routine. “It took several hours to make just one, and I needed 11 of them,” artist Matthew Day Perez said. “It is not like a…