Research stories
Gap between rich and poor extends to views on retirement age: poll
By Matthew Gray and Rob Bray, ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods Only a minority of Australians favour current policy settings to increase the Age Pension age, according to the recently released ANU poll on ageing and money. Across the population only 15% of those polled in October…
Making Love — and Nations
Why was love across ethnic boundaries in colonial nations so dangerous? For one thing, it threatened to wrench nations apart because it risked binding them together. By Professor Ann McGrath, Director, Australian Centre for Indigenous History, ANU Staunchly opposed to marriages outside his nation…
New ANU project to research post-election disputes and their causes
An Australian National University political scientist has won an esteemed ARC grant for an international project investigating why some political parties in Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia reject election results. Dr Svitlana Chernykh, an ANU School of Politics and International Relations lecturer…
Cabinet papers 1990: from little things, Australia’s asylum seeker policy grew
By Associate Professor Frank Bongiorno, ANU School of History The Keating government’s decision to introduce mandatory detention of asylum seekers in 1992 has long been recognised as a progenitor of the hardline policies that have been increasingly a feature of this fraught area of policy. Kerry…
Hello Barbie, hello hackers: accessing personal data will be child’s play
By Emmeline Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, School of Sociology, Australian National University and Katina Michael, Associate Professor, School of Information Systems and Technology, University of Wollongong At the top of some children’s Christmas present wish list this year will…
Making nice and making enemies
Dr John Besemeres is an Adjunct Fellow in the ANU Centre for European Studies. Vladimir Putin’s actions in the Middle East reflect his view that all relationships are zero-sum games. Ukraine has largely disappeared from our antipodean media in recent months, and is much less prominent even in…
ANU CASS academics win prestigious joint research grant
Professor Keith Dowding and Dr Matthew Kerby from the ANU School of Politics and International Relations are among the 100 winners of grant funding by the Australia-Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme. Professor Dowding’s team was the College’s sole winner, and was among five from the…