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New wave of scholars explore maritime history
A little known and deep historical link between Australia and Indonesia will be explored at a two-day symposium starting this Thursday at The Australian National University. Leading Indonesia and Indigenous Australia experts from around the world will gather to examine the journeys of Macassan…
Congratulations to Australia Day Honours recipients
Two graduates and one previous staff member from the College have been recognised for their outstanding contributions to the community by the Governor General on the Australia Day Honours List. This year, the Honours list recognised 690 Australians for the significant difference they have made to…
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…