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Q&A: Dr Andrew Glikson on the Plutocene age
Taken individually, climate change and the threat of nuclear war each hold the potential to change the face of the earth and life on earth as we know it. A new book by earth and paleoclimate scientist Dr Andrew Glikson of the ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology projects a scenario in which…
Cars, bicycles and the fatal myth of equal reciprocity
By Dr Ashley Carruthers, Lecturer in Anthropology, ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology. Any public conversation about on-road cycling in Australia seems to have only one metaphor for the relationship between drivers and cyclists: equal reciprocity.…
Australia doesn’t have a population policy – why?
By Dr Liz Allen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research. Australia lacks an overarching population policy or strategy. Over the years, multiple inquiries have recommended such a policy. Population policies the world over typically focus on births and…
Note to Liberals: on the leadership front, best to keep calm and carry on
By Dr Chris Wallace, Research Fellow (ARC DECRA), National Centre of Biography, ANU School of History. Do politicians read history any more? Liberal MPs who have not read Robert Menzies’ Afternoon Light: some memories of men and events (1967) should get it from the Parliamentary…
What the underground market for ransomware looks like
By Professor Roderic Broadhurst, Professor of Criminology, College of Arts and Social Science, and Fellow Research, College of Asia and the Pacific. The attack of ransomware “WannaCry” has put governments and businesses around the world on edge, but in fact the underground market…
Australian politics explainer: the White Australia policy
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has repeatedly claimed that Australia is the world’s most successful multicultural nation. While the sentiment has bipartisan support today, for more than half a century after Federation Australia boasted not of multiculturalism, but of its monoculture. In 1925,…
The tragedy of Mosul: battle against Islamic State is leading to all-too-familiar consequences
By Damian Doyle, PhD candidate, ANU Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies, and Dr Tristan Dunning, University of Queensland A tragedy is unfolding in Mosul, the northern Iraqi city that Islamic State (IS) has brutally occupied since June 2014. Airstrikes conducted by the international…