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Millennial mental health toll spikes during Covid
There has been a spike in severe psychological distress in young Australian adults under 35, according to new analysis from The Australian National University (ANU). The study – which tracked 3,155 Australians – is the first-of-its-kind to …
From the Bush
ANU linguist Dr Carmel O'Shannessy has spent more than 20 years working in, and researching within, remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory. In one of these, Lajamanu, Dr O'Shannessy wound up collaborating with a person she had taught in the 1990s, to make a…
For First Nations people, coronavirus has meant fewer services, separated families and over-policing: new report
Yesterday was National Sorry Day in Australia. It marks the anniversary of the tabling of the Bringing Them Home report, which chronicles decades of removals of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families. Sorry Day also acknowledges the strength of the Stolen Generations…
Art and Design grads win major international award
Every March in Munich, Germany, the Fashion Week of art, craft and design takes place. It is the International Trade Fair for the Skilled Trades, or Internationalen Handwerksmesse München. “It's a global focus for our discipline,” says Dr Rohan Nicol, Head of Jewellery & Object at the ANU…
Why good leaders need to hold the hose: how history might read Morrison’s coronavirus leadership
What does political leadership look like in a pandemic? Many of us probably carry images in our heads of what good leadership might be in a depression or a war. But before 2020 few of us would have had any conception of what political leadership might look like during a life-threatening public…
Two in three volunteers stopped vital work due to COVID-19
COVID-19 has had a significant impact on the economic and social benefits generated by the roughly seven million Australians who volunteer for an organisation or group, new analysis from The Australian National University (ANU) shows. With almost six million Australian volunteers…
Self-employed Australians’ hours have fallen 32% since coronavirus hit – double the impact on all employees
Australia Bureau of Statistics data has confirmed the massive economic hit from the COVID-19 pandemic, with total hours worked across the economy officially falling 9% between early March and early April 2020. Our analysis, using data from the quarterly ANUpoll, suggests the self-employed have…