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ANZAC Day with Bruce Scates
This ANZAC Day will be unlike any other in living memory. But wherever we are, we can still come together and reflect. Come together this ANZAC Day for a special online event with Professor Bruce Scates, ANU historian, author and producer of the series ‘Australian Journey’. In this interactive…
In 1919, Anzac Day was commemorated despite the Spanish flu pandemic. In 2020, we will remember them again
Anzac Day 2020 will be a far cry from the Australian War Memorial’s dawn service of recent years. While dignified and solemn, the dawn service has also been spectacle. Sophisticated technology is used to project images from the memorial’s photographic collection onto the building. From an hour…
ANU Ceramics researcher aiding doctors on frontline of Coronavirus
ANU School of Art & Design researcher Mr Rod Bamford is applying his design expertise to create face shields for doctors on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis. Mr Bamford, a Senior Lecturer in Ceramics, has been using designs developed by members of the global …
Scientific modelling is steering our response to coronavirus. But what is scientific modelling?
As they released the modelling of the COVID-19 pandemic behind Australia’s social isolation policies this week, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy were guarded. They emphasised the limits of scientific models, and how they could easily be misinterpreted. This…
1 in 10 children affected by bushfires is Indigenous - We've been ignoring them for too long
The catastrophic bushfire season is officially over, but governments, agencies and communities have failed to recognise the specific and disproportionate impact the fires have had on Aboriginal peoples. Addressing this in bushfire response and recovery is part of Unfinished Business: the work…
We need to consider granting bail to unsentenced prisoners to stop the spread of coronavirus
Prison is, understandably, a very closed environment. Many prisons are also overcrowded. COVID-19 has already entered the prison system and any further spread would be catastrophic for prisoners, staff, their families and the wider community. The flow of prisoners in and out of custody in…
How Australia’s response to the Spanish flu of 1919 sounds warnings on dealing with coronavirus
Most Australians - Indigenous people under the protection acts were an exception - have long taken for granted their right to cross state borders. They have treated them much as they do the often unmarked boundaries dividing their suburbs. Not any more. Australia has closed its international…