Professor Li Narangoa
, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Mongolia Studies Centre
Professor Li Narangoa Introduces The Australian National University's new Mongolia Studies Centre, some common Mongolian…
Dr Ramesh Thakur & Dr Rob Floyd
In recent years Australia has taken a leading role in national, regional and international non-proliferation and…
Dr Tyrell Haberkorn, Dr Pavin Chachavalpongpun, Dr Patrick Jory and Professor Charnvit Kasetsiri
Three of the pillars of Thai society are in the spotlight in this new vodcast series titled ชาติ ศาสนา พระมหากษัตริย์: Nation, Religion, King. This is episode…
Professor Pasuk Phongpaichit, Dr Chris Baker, Dr Andrew Walker & Dr Nicholas Farrelly
Three of the pillars of Thai society are in the spotlight in this new vodcast series titled ชาติ ศาสนา…
Dr Anders Engvall, Daungyewa Utarasint, Saran Santisart & Professor Des Ball
Three of the pillars of Thai…
Professor Yukie Osa
, Rikkyo University / Association for Aid and Relief, Japan
On 11 March, Japan was hit by unprecedented triple disasters, a massive earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0, 30-meter-high…
Professor Geremie R Barmé
Professor Geremie Barme gives the Inaugural CIW Annual Lecture, Australia and China in the World: whose literacy? This…
Mr David M Malone
, President of the Canadian International Development Research Centre
To outsiders, India and China show some striking similarities. Both are ancient civilizations reincarnated as modern republics in the mid twentieth century, and are now rising powers. Both have nuclear…
Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero
, NATO Deputy Secretary General
NATO was formed in April 1949 in response to the rapidly emerging Soviet threat to the nations of Western Europe and North America. Its founding treaty declared that an attack against one of its member…
Hosted by Dr Nicholas Farrelly featuring Benjamin Zawacki and Dr Aung Si
Amnesty International Southeast Asia researcher Benjamin Zawacki and Dr Aung Si - the grandson of former Prime Minister of the Union of Burma U Nu - are the guests in the fourth and final Burma votes…
Hosted by Dr Nicholas Farrelly featuring Professor Trevor Wilson and Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim
Former Australian Ambassador to Burma Trevor Wilson is the guest while Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim gives his reaction to the release of Aung San Suu Kyi in the third Burma votes 2010 vodcast…
Hosted by Nicholas Farrelly
'Burma votes 2010' presenter Nicholas Farrelly gives a special post-poll update to the vod and podcast series. This episode was recorded on 9 November 2010 and in the second in the series. 'Burma…
Hosted by Dr Nicholas Farrelly featuring Morten Pedersen and Professor Desmond Ball
Des Ball and Morten Pedersen are the guests in the first ‘Burma votes 2010' vodcast. This video was recorded on 2 November 2010 and is hosted by Nicholas Farrelly. It is the first in a series…
Professor Hugh White
, Head, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU
Professor Hugh White's recent Quarterly Essay, Power Shift: Australia's future between Washington and Beijing looks at Australia's strategic choices in the Asian Century. In this lecture professor…
2010 Lions Oratory Competition
In this year's Sixteenth Annual Lions Oratory Competition, student representatives from the ANU Colleges competed for the perpetual Oratory Trophy and prizes totaling $3,000 in cash. The objective…
Admiral Di Paola
, Chairman of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Military Committee
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is a politico-military alliance of countries from Europe and North America. It provides a unique link between these two continents for consultation and…
A Panel of Burma Scholars from ANU
This forum considers scenarios for and beyond Burma's anticipated 2010 elections. While the elections are part of the military regime's "7-point Road Map", many aspects of how they will play out, their…
Nicholas Farrelly
, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
In the final Thailand in Crisis vodcast, ANU PhD students Nattakant Akarapongpisak, Pongphisoot Busbarat and Preedee Hongsaton join host Nicholas Farrelly for a panel discussion about Thailand's political…
Nicholas Farrelly
, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Professor Peter Warr discusses how economics has impacted Thailand and on perceptions of the Thai government while Professor Andrew Leigh talks about development economics in the fifth Thailand in Crisis…
Dr Jose Ramos-Horta
, President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
After two years of peace and almost a decade since independence there is hope that the days of occupation, violence, disease and starvation have passed for the young country of Timor-Leste.
Nicholas Farrelly
, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Professor Thongchai Winichakul is the special guest for the fourth Thailand in Crisis vodcast. With host NIcholas Farrelly, he discusses the 1976 protests, his time in detention, his reaction to the…
Nicholas Farrelly
, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Dr Tyrell Haberkorn and Professor Hilary Charlesworth are the guests in the third Thailand in Crisis podcast - discussing issues of human rights and international law in the Thai context. Host Nicholas…
Nicholas Farrelly, Des Ball and Marcus Mietzner
Thailand in Crisis is a series of six vod and podcasts from The College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. They are released each Friday, beginning 28 May 2010. …
Nicholas Farrelly
, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security at ANU
Thailand in Crisis is a series of six vod and podcasts from The College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. They are released each Friday, beginning 28 May 2010. In…
The Hon Greg Hunt MP
, Shadow Minister for Climate Action, Environment and Heritage
In this panel discussion, members will explore the interaction between China's economic development and it'd environmental responsibilities, from a range of social, political, environmental and economic…
Professor John Braitwaite and Dr Michael Cookson
, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
States rarely disintegrate in the way that former Yugoslavia did in the 1990s. Many thought Indonesia would disintegrate in the wake of a large number of violent internal conflicts at the turn of the…
Professor Penelope Mathew
, Freilich Foundation Professor
Australia's handling of the asylum-seekers on board the Oceanic Viking and recent 'freeze' on Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum applications has sparked vigorous and ongoing debate. In her inaugural lecture…
The Hon. Kevin Rudd, MP
, Prime Minister of Australia
Australias first National Security College will begin activities in May after its official launch by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd at The Australian National University on Saturday 24 April 2010.
Professor Swaran Singh
, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
How does a nuclear power & non-signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty engage in international debate on the issue?
Following the US-led campaign for global nuclear disarmament…
Professor Ron McKinnon
, Stanford University
The international dollar standard is an accident of history that greatly facilitates international trade and exchange. But erratic U.S. monetary and financial policies, have upset the U.S. and a world…
The Right Hon Malcolm Fraser, AC, CH, Former Prime Minister of Australia
Mr Fraser addressed the current state of nuclear weapons acquisition and distribution and the present danger and opportunities facing the world. He covered the failures in disarmament and non-proliferation…
The Hon Stephen Smith MP , Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
In this speech to the ANU China Institute The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, spoke on the Australia-China Relationship and discussed China's importance…
Paul McGeough, Sophie McNeill, Peter Leahy, Seb Kaempf, Julie Posetti, Hugh White and more
Today, war is conducted not only by the dispatch of Tomahawks in the air or Kalashnikovs and suicide attacks on the ground but also by means of bytes, tweets, digital images, and social networking forums.…
Professor Ross Garnaut AO, Distinguished Professor, The Australian National University
Professor Ross Garnaut presented the final report of the Garnaut Climate Change Review to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on 30 September 2008, the morning of the largest ever one day…
John Ashton, Special Representative for Climate Change, The United Kingdoms Foreign and Commonwealth Office
John Ashton, Special Representative for Climate Change at the United Kingdom's Foreign and Commonwealth Office presented a public lecture called, Coal: The Elephant in the Room
Emeritus Professor Paik Nak-chung , Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
The partition of the Korean peninsula has since the end of the Korean War solidified into a ‘division system' encompassing two otherwise contrastive societies. This notion enables an important…
Professor Hugh White, Adjunct Professor Peter Bailey, Dr Jane Golley and Professor Geremie Barmé, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific and ANU College of Law
The arrest of Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu, and more recently China's cancellation of a ministerial visit over Canberra's decision to grant a visa to Uighur figurehead Rebiya Kadeer has put Australia-China…
Virginia Haussegger, Julie Posetti and Dr Shakira Hussein
A public debate hosted by The Australian National University and The Canberra Times.
Muslim women's dress codes have come into the political spotlight in both Muslim-majority…
Professor Mark R. Rosenzweig, Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics and Director of the Economic Growth Center, Yale University
This lecture examined the growing phenomenon of international skilled migration with particular attention to its impact on developing countries. A framework was developed for understanding the…
George Friedman, Founder and Chief Intelligence Officer of STRATFOR
In his book The Next 100 Years, George Friedman offers a lucid, highly readable forecast of the changes we can expect around the world during the twenty-first century. He explains where and why future…
Professor Hugh White, Professor of Strategic Studies and Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU
This year's Defence White Paper is more than a shopping list for the military. Behind the force priorities and budget estimates lie key judgments about the kind of regional we expect to live in,…
Professor Stuart Harris, Dr Robert F. Miller and Dr Kirill Nourzhanov, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies and Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies
Speaking shortly after his election as President of the Russian Federation in 2008, Dmitry Medvedev highlighted his priorities in office: to maintain economic stability, to strengthen freedoms, to promote…
Dr Guy Pearse, Environmental Advocate & Author
In this lecture Dr Guy Pearse will spoke about the mindset that sees Australia's greatest asset as its mineral and energy resources - coal especially, asking how has this distorted our national…
Professor Thomas Lemieux, Professor of Economics, University of British Columbia
Wage inequality has been increasing is most industrialised countries over the last two or three decades. There are, nonetheless, major differences across countries in terms of the timing and magnitude…
Professor Jeffrey Williamson, Harvard University and the University of Wisconsin
A secular decline in emigration rates from the Third World since the 1990s has gone unnoticed. The recent rise in unemployment in high-wage countries has accelerated the secular decline. These trends…
The Honourable Stephen Smith, MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs
The Minister for Foreign Affairs discusses where the Australian Government is taking a relationship that Prime Minister Aso recently described as having reached the most productive time in its…
Hugh White, Professor of Strategic Studies and Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre
We often behave as if National Security is too important to think clearly about. Some risks are ignored, while others are exaggerated. Policies are adopted to meet threats without any clear…
Professor Marc Mangel, University of California, Santa Cruz
One of the great challenges of this century is to answer the question: How
do we bring first class basic science to bear on important applied
problems? Although the path is not completely…
Dr Martin Parkinson, Secretary, Department of Climate Change
The presentation focuses on three key questions on climate change: what set of policies are desirable? What are the impacts of policy action, and is global action achievable?
The first question…
Dr Bruce Jenks, Assistant Secretary General of the UNDP and Director of the Bureau for Resources and Strategic Partnerships
Graduate students from The Australian National University have greater access to show their skills on the world stage now The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and ANU have signed…
H.E. Dr. Kim Woo-sang, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea
This lecture starts by briefly defining the middle power and its role in the regional system. The security environment that the Korean peninsula is facing is later introduced including the…
Andaleeb Akhand, Amanda Alford, Hae-Young (Connie) Chong, Kirill Talanine, Tamie Balaga, Thomas Conyers, Contestants in the 2008 Lions Oratory Competition
The 14th Annual Lions Oratory Competition saw selected ANU students from across the University present eight minute orations to convince the judges and the audience that they deserved to win the ANU…
Ms Sunita Narain, Director of the Centre for Science & Environment and Director of the Society for Environmental Communications
"Why Environmentalism Needs Equity: Learning from the environmentalism of the poor to build our common future". Ms Sunita Narain, Director of the Centre for Science & Environment; Director…
The Honourable Dr Mike Kelly, AM MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Support, Member of Eden-Monaro
This lecture is the Annual Dr John Gee Memorial Lecture and was presented by the Lowy Institute for International Policy and The Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. Dr Kelly will address the…
Richard Carson, Professor of Economics, University of California
ANU Trevor Swan Distinguished Lectures in Economics The lecture traces the outlines of economic thinking on climate change. Two competing paradigms are reviewed: (1) modelling of greenhouse gases…
Professor Hugh White , Head of the Strategic and Defence Centre, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
One hundred years ago this year the Great White fleet sailed into Sydney harbor to a rapturous reception from Australian's hoping that America would protect us from the threats we feared from rising…
Professor Ross Garnaut, Professor of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Decisions on whether and how much mitigation of the risks of dangerous climate change is justified raises exceptional challenges. In this lecture Professor Garnaut discusses the issues that arise when…
Professor Hugh White, Head, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
In this lecture, Professor White discusses the morality and ethical challenges of war, as examined by Professor Coady in his new book, Morality & Political Violence. Political violence,…
Colin Keating, Executive Director, Security Council Report, NY
2008 has already brought major new challenges for diplomats. The situations in Kenya and Pakistan underline the depths of the problems in Africa and elsewhere. The Security Council and UN peacekeepers…
Professor Ross Garnaut, Professor of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, College of Asia and the Pacific
In the inaugural S.T. Lee Lecture on Asia and the Pacific Professor Garnaut asks: How the risks of climate change will interact with the 'Platinum Age' of global economic growth? What are the limits…
Hosted by Jack Waterford, Editor at large, The Canberra Times
On 21 June 2007 Prime Minister John Howard and Minister for Indigenous Affairs Mal Brough declared a ‘national emergency’ in relation to child sexual abuse in the Northern Territory. In…
Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, Director-General, The Energy and Resources Institute
2007 K R Narayanan Oration Recent high rates of economic growth in India and other parts of the developing world, while reducing poverty and raising global…
Professor Bibek Debroy, Professor, International Management Institute, New Delhi
India has registered nine per cent and higher GDP growth rates for three years in succession. But is this growth real and is it sustainable? Has there been a structural change in the economy or is it…
Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser, Former Prime Minister of Australia
What does it mean to be Australian in 2007? How do we as Australians see ourselves? How are we as a nation, culture and society, perceived by others? How have recent actions and policies affected attitudes…
Professor Francis Fukuyama, Professor of International Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University
While Professor Francis Fukuyama’s changing evaluation of the arguments of his one-time Neocon colleagues has illuminated major issues about American policy and the war in Iraq, his general thinking…
Dr Jose Ramos-Horta, Prime Minister, Timor-Leste
In his first visit to Australia as Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, Dr Jose Ramos-Horta discusses the current political…
Professor Warwick J McKibbin, Executive Director, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
The Fifth Annual Sir Leslie Melville Lecture was presented by Professor Warwick J McKibbin. Sir Leslie Melville’s legacy includes the design and establishment of…
Professor Jagdish Bhagwati, Columbia University
Preferential trading arrangements are becoming increasingly popular among the nations of the world. But are they a positive development? In the Fourth H W Arndt Memorial Lecture – presented by…
Suman K Bery, Director-General, National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi
Chaired by Professor Robin Jeffrey, Convener of the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific Presented by the Australia South Asia Research Centre, Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies,…
The Hon. Kevin Rudd, MP
, Prime Minister of Australia
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered the 70th annual George E Morrison Lecture in the Hall at University House at ANU. Speaking on the theme Australia and China in the world, the Prime Minister also…
Kate Geraghty, Brigadier Brian Dawson, Prakash Mirchandani, Bill Paterson, Peter Mantello, Eric Beecher and more
Today, war is conducted not only by the dispatch of Tomahawks in the air or Kalashnikovs and suicide attacks on the ground but also by means of bytes, tweets, digital images, and social networking forums.…
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