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Caring for country creates new land of opportunity
New conservation partnerships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians are saving threatened animals, returning Aboriginal people to their ancestral homeland, discovering new types of plant species and developing novel cross-cultural ways of managing country. The inspiring projects have…
CASS student joins world's most elite in youth movement to find solutions to Global Poverty
Students from the Australian National University will compete in the 3rd Annual Hult Global Case Challenge (Hult GCC) – an initiative that brings together top students from all over the globe to generate solutions to the world's most pressing social challenges. Anna Lee Li Mei is studying…
Humanities Research Centre to host major International Conference on Anthropocene Humanities
The Humanities Research Centre will host a global conference on humanities and climate change as part of the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) from 13-16 June. This is the first time in over a decade that the annual meeting of this global consortium…
Maori and Aboriginal Women in the Public Eye
The latest book in the ANU.Lives Series in Biography was published in December and titled Maori and Aboriginal Women in the Public Eye, by Dr Karen Fox from the National Centre of Biography. This book is the first in-depth study of media portrayals of well-known Indigenous women in Australia and…
Don't get the rough end of a pineapple
What would new English speakers in Australia make of the idioms silly as wheel, silly as a chook, silly as a two-bob watch, to have kangaroos in the top paddock, as mad as a gum tree full of galahs, not the full quid and short of a sheet of bark? Aussie English for Beginners is a series of books…
Australian Students Visit Greece to Study Ancient Greek Culture
A new 3 week long educational programme allows Australian university students to visit Greece, in order to study and immerse themselves in the ancient Greek culture and its legacy. In cooperation with the Australian Archaeological Institute of Athens, the students will have the opportunity of…
Welcome to new Language Studies staff
The University's world-wide reputation for excellence in modern languages has been strengthened by the arrival of two new researchers in the School of Language Studies. Welcome to Dr Sarah Ogilvie and Professor Catherine Travis.Dr Sarah Ogilvie will head up the Australian National Dictionary…