2008
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June
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The International Whaling Commission (IWC) will hold its 60th Meeting in Santiago, Chile this week, 23-27 June with 79 countries who are all parties to the 1946 International Convention expected to attend. It will be the first time Environment Minister Peter Garrett has led the Australian delegation to the IWC.
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Australian voters see big business as a greater threat than unions, think more should be spent on social services over tax cuts and say Peter Costello would not have saved the Coalition from electoral defeat at last year’s poll. Those are some of the key findings of a new study from The Australian National University.
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Many of Australia’s key stakeholders in Indigenous affairs will tomorrow analyse the successes and failures of government policies and make recommendations for the future at the inaugural event of The Australian National University’s Centre for Dialogue.
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Australian men are much more confident and relaxed than women when it comes to using the range of transport options in urban settings, new research from The Australian National University suggests.
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The world’s first legal research centre devoted to climate change was opened at The Australian National University by Environment Minister Peter Garrett today.
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Asian and European honey bees can learn to understand one another’s dance languages despite having evolved different forms of communication, an international research team has shown for the first time.
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The difficulties faced by the New Zealand Government with introducing an Emissions Trading Scheme and the Australian discussions about how to discount petrol do not bode well for the country’s ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, an academic from The Australian National University is warning.
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May
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The Victorian Government should review its environmental assessment process to avoid repeats of the drawn-out and disappointing Port Phillip Channel Deepening Project process with future projects, according to an academic from The Australian National University.
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Australian scientists have discovered the oldest evidence of live birth on the planet, thanks to a fossil fish from Western Australia with a well-preserved embryo inside the body cavity.
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GPs are not an integral part of Australian influenza planning, despite the important role they will play in limiting deaths in the event of a pandemic hitting the country, according to research from The Australian National University.
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Climate change and land management practices could be affecting the total amount of groundwater and surface water in the Hunter Valley, and also increasing levels of salinity.
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ANU astronomers have found there is nothing special about the Sun after conducting the most comprehensive comparison of it with other stars – adding weight to the idea that life could be common in the universe.
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Airlines and their passengers should foot the bill for offset programs to counter spiralling international aviation carbon dioxide emissions, according to an academic from The Australian National University.
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The Australian National University and the University of South Australia today signed a Memorandum of Understanding that builds on the Federal Government’s collaborative approach for strengthening Australia’s higher education sector.
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Australia’s long-hours culture is much more likely to disadvantage the careers and wellbeing of mothers than fathers because of persistent inequalities around how family time commitments are shared, new research from The Australian National University (ANU) suggests.
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Over the next four months a student from The Australian National University will aim to meet with more than 4,000 young people in around 400 towns throughout Australia before taking their concerns all the way to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
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With Fair Trade Fortnight underway an academic from The Australian National University is asking the government to give Fair Trade a fair go by investing part of the country’s aid budget in the Fair Trade market to harness its contribution to regional capacity building and development.
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Governments and other large organisations should put more resources into ways of dealing with the unknown, according to experts pioneering a new approach to understanding and managing uncertainty.
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The 20th anniversary of new Parliament House in Canberra should be a time to celebrate the diverse heritage of the people who helped create the Aussie icon, according to the musician tasked with capturing the spirit of its construction.
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Only a major global economic slowdown, international conflict or the emergence of new emission-saving technology can prevent worldwide aviation emissions rising up to 144 per cent higher than current levels within 20 years, according to the authors of a report from The Australian National University.
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John Howard and the Coalition made elementary marketing mistakes that cost them the chance to win last year’s election – something they wouldn’t have done if they’d followed the lesson of the Toyota Corolla and reinvented Howard for consumers, according to marketing researchers at The Australian National University.
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April
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Scientists at ANU are a step closer to understanding the rare Hartnup disorder after discovering a surprising link between blood pressure regulation and nutrition that could also help to shed light on intestinal and kidney function.
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The future of the Kokoda Track could be jeopardised unless the competing interests of various landholder groups in Papua New Guinea are resolved through a new representative organisation, an expert from The Australian National University has proposed.
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Less educated, older men are more likely to view depression negatively, while almost one in five Australians say they wouldn’t work with someone suffering depression, according to researchers from The Australian National University.
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Ahead of this weekend’s 2020 Summit academics from The Australian National University are warning research shows significant changes need to be made to Indigenous affairs policy to ‘close the gaps’ but the “narrative of failure” that dominates discussion on the area is unfounded.
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While Bill Clinton might have reminded people ‘it’s the economy, stupid’ in his 1992 presidential campaign, Australians believe that the environment is the most important issue facing Australia now and in five years time, according to the results of the inaugural ANU Poll.
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Two academics at The Australian National University are warning that legal clarification may be needed to establish the precise role Chinese Olympic Officials will be playing when they accompany the Olympic torch as it makes its way around Canberra.
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The Australian National University will host a large gathering of Pacific specialists later this week at an international conference about fostering connections between Pacific Studies research, education and outreach activities.
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A stream of debris across the sky is the result of intergalactic cannibalism, researchers from The Australian National University conclude, and it is the not the first time our galaxy has had one of its neighbours for breakfast.
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A group of first-year ANU physics students are part of an experimental program called the ‘Unlecture Project’ – an interactive lecture environment that sees groups given electronic keypads where they register the right answer to multiple-choice questions posed by the lecturer.
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Further damage to the heritage aspects of Gallipoli in Turkey is inevitable unless limits are placed on the number of tourists visiting the area for memorial services, an expert will suggest at The Australian National University tonight.
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March
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Test score gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians are narrowest in the early years, according to new research from The Australian National University.
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The Australian National University today announced the creation of a new endowment fund and a range of measures to ensure a strong future for the ANU School of Music.
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Australia’s two top-ranked research-intensive universities, The Australian National University and the University of Melbourne, will form a formidable alliance under a Memorandum of Understanding announced today.
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Some of the world’s leading astronomers and astrophysicists will gather this week at The Australian National University to discuss the construction, challenges and science behind the development of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT).
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ANU today announced that it would make a substantial contribution to the Federal Government’s review of the National Innovation System, hosting a series of Research and Innovation Policy Dialogue Workshops consider key issues in research and innovation.
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Astronomers from The Australian National University are urging city dwellers to use Earth Hour to look to the stars, as the great ‘switch-off’ will help reduce the light pollution that otherwise obstructs views of space in urban areas.
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A primary focus on AIDS and lack of access to cheap life-saving medication has left the world potentially facing an epidemic of virtually untreatable tuberculosis (TB), an ANU academic has warned.
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Biotechnology discoveries – like the method for creating synthetic life forms – are at risk of being unduly hindered or taken hostage by private corporations unless patent systems are brought into the 21st century, an ANU expert argues.
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In the lead up to the release of the Garnaut Review an international expert on greenhouse gas emissions trading will give a public lecture at ANU tonight examining the lessons Australia could learn from the European experience.
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On the eve of the 75th anniversary of the discovery of the first antimatter particle – the positron – researchers at The Australian National University are taking their first steps to investigate the interactions of antimatter with matter.
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New ANU research may explain why eating royal jelly destines honeybee larvae to become queens instead of workers – and in the process adds new weight to the role of environmental factors in the nature/nurture divide.
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Allowing surgeons a real-time, high-resolution view of their patient’s internal organs and sending unhackable information further than ever before are the goals of two ANU students who’ve won scholarships from the Fulbright Commission.
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Extraterrestrials will probably never ‘phone’ Earth in a way we’d understand as they’re unlikely to have evolved human-like intelligence – but that doesn’t mean we should give up the search for life beyond our planet, an ANU expert will argue today.
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The arrest of Dr Patel in the United States in relation to extradition proceedings commenced by Australia raises a number of significant legal issues, according to ANU Professor of International Law Don Rothwell.
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International movie star Jackie Chan today opened the Jackie Chan Science Centre, part of the new John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR) building at ANU.
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The appointment of both a new Dean for the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences and a Director for the Faculty of Arts will enhance the University’s focus across a wide range of disciplines, ANU Vice-Chancellor Ian Chubb said today.
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A group of Canberra mums are getting some entertaining help with the science homework thanks to a new program organised by The Australian National University.
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February
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The entrenched political instability in Pakistan and Afghanistan is of grave concern to many in the West – but now geologists at ANU have suggested a new cause for the seismic instability that regularly rocks the region.
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Some of Asia’s key policy makers and business leaders will be in Sydney today for a half-day symposium organised by ANU and the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) introducing the work of The Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA).
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General practice needs to become a more attractive career choice for young doctors if Australia is to meet the growing nation-wide demand for GPs, according to a systematic review that examined options for attracting doctors into the specialty.
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Australia must abandon its approach to university funding or risk falling further behind the rest of the world, the Vice-Chancellor of The Australian National University will warn in a wide-ranging address about the future of the tertiary education sector.
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The literacy and numeracy performance of Australian school children is no better than it was in the 1960s and 1970s, according to new research from ANU.
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Top experts from Australia and the world will gather at ANU next week to discuss threats to human health, biosecurity and our readiness to cope with them.
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A team of researchers from ANU will lead a new joint research centre with China conducting leading-edge research into treatments for Avian Influenza (Bird Flu).
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The theory that ancient mega-tsunamis once swamped the Australian coast – leaving deposits up to 30km inland – is severely undermined by the archaeological evidence, a conference at The Australian National University will hear.
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January
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An ANU seismologist whose work could help forecast the damage path of future earthquakes has been honoured by one of the world’s top scientific organisations.
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Australians have a greater chance of rising up the income ladder over generations than Americans do, according to new research from ANU.
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