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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…
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…
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…
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…
Professor Tom Griffiths joins Antarctic expedition
Early this morning, 5 January 2012, Professor Tom Griffiths, Antarctic historian in the School of History, joined the Australian Antarctic Division’s Centennial Voyage to Mawson’s Huts at Commonwealth Bay. You can follow Tom on his journey through a dedicated website created to mark the occasion…
Friendship and Empire
Dr Paul Burton, Lecturer and Head of Classics & Ancient History, has released a new book "Friendship and Empire; Roman Diplomacy and Imperialism in the Middle Republic (353-146 BC)".In this bold new interpretation of the origins of ancient Rome's overseas empire, Dr. Burton charts the impact of…
Clever design nets Henry a major cash prize
ANU School of Art graduate Henry Wilson has been announced as the winner of this year’s Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award. Henry’s winning entry was A Joint, a strong, multi-use joinery system. The highly flexible system, which uses pre-dimensional timber in up to four configurations, can be…