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The decade that was and the decade to come in… books
By Dr Millicent Weber The decade that wasWhile for many reasons the new millennium seemed to threaten the demise of print, what we've seen instead has been a diversification of the market and the formats available.On the production side, looking top-down at the publishing industry, there's…
Caring for mates not number of beers is responsible drinking
As the festive season gears up, new research from The Australian National University has found Australians don't know, and 'wildly underestimate' guidelines for responsible drinking. Despite this, Australians felt a deep sense of social responsibility to others when drinking and uniformly cited…
'Voice' named Australia’s Word of 2019
Voice: 'a formal channel for Indigenous input into the making of laws and policies affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people'. The term voice has been given a major shout-out from the nation's premier word watchers, being named by the Australian National Dictionary Centre as…
AES: Trust in government hits all time low
Trust in government has reached its lowest level on record, with just one-in-four Australians saying they had confidence in their political leaders and institutions, according to a major study of the 2019 Federal Election. The latest Australian Election Study, conducted by The Australian National…
CASS students win New Colombo Plan 2020 scholarships
Tony Xu has been beekeeping since he was 14 years old. “My high school teacher kept bees and I was looking for a school project,” Tony explains. “I tagged along with him and the rest is history.” These days, he's employed by the Australian National University as one of its two beekeepers and…
2020 ARC Discovery projects announced
The Australian Research Council (ARC) has released the outcomes of the 2020 Discovery Research projects, with several researchers from the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences awarded funding under the scheme. Dr Ben Mercer from School of History has received funding for a project looking at…
Eureka! Stories from the goldfields brought back to life
A new book of "ripping yarns" from the Australian goldfields of the mid-1800s has put the tumultuous times and tales surrounding the Eureka Stockade rebellion back into the popular imagination. The book, curated by academics in the ANU School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics,…