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…
Senator the Hon John Faulkner
, Senator for New South Wales
Senator John Faulkner presents the annual Archives lecture reflecting on the history of the labour movement in Australia.…
Dr Mari Elka Pangestu
, Minister of Trade, Republic of Indonesia
These are good times for Indonesia. Commodity prices are high, the economy is buoyant, and the 2008-09 global financial crisis had little impact. The economic and democratic …
Professor Amin Saikal, Dr Mathew Gray and Dr Rodger Shanahan
Recent months have seen the people of the Arab world from Yemen to Egypt, and most recently in Libya,…
Professor Barabara Wolfe
, Institute of Medicine (IOM)
In this lecture, Professor Wolfe will examine the relationship between income and health in the US and in Australia. In both nations, negative health behaviours are concentrated among the less educated…
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…
Menzies Centre for Health Policy, The Nous Group
The Menzies Centre for Health Policy, together with The Nous Group, has recently completed a survey of 1,200 Australians to gain insight into their attitudes towards the health and aged care system,…
Menzies Centre for Health Policy , The Nous Group
The Menzies Centre for Health Policy, together with The Nous Group, has recently completed a survey of 1,200 Australians to gain insight into their attitudes towards the health and aged care system,…
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…
Dr David W Runciman
, Cambridge University, United Kingdom
The historical record of democracies in dealing with crises and other threats is good: democracies win wars, avoid famines, recover from economic disasters and adapt to meet new challenges. This should…
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…
Facilitated by Ms Julie McCrossin
, Freelance Journalist
ANU presents a roundtable series that will contribute significantly to the health reform agenda in Australia. The fourth event in the series is ‘Youth mental health: is anybody listening?'…
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…
Dr Martin Parkinson
, Secretary, Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency
This lecture is the ninth annual Sir Leslie Melville Lecture presented by the Australian National University.
The introduction of an emissions trading scheme in Australia constitutes a significant…
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…
The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP
, Federal Minister for Housing
The national crisis in affordable accommodation has hit low income earners hard in Canberra. Even where new public service graduates, students, young families and the unemployed have been able to find…
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…
Julian Burnside AO QC
, Barrister
'In conversation with ...' is a series of events presented by the Law Reform and Social Justice Program at the ANU College of Law, to profile people in Australia who are active in addressing…
Dr Martin Parkinson
, Secretary, Department of Climate Change
This symposium brought together key experts to discuss the future of Climate Change action in Australia, 6 months after the Copenhagen Climate Change summit.
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…
This lecture consisted of a panel of leading health care experts
Professor Ian Chubb, Vice-Chancellor of The Australian National University, and the Honourable Warren Snowdon MP, Minister for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health and Regional Services Delivery,…
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 Will Steffen
, Executive Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute
Over the past few months, the climate change challenge has taken some odd twists and turns. The COP15 meeting in Copenhagen was widely condemned in the press as a failure; the Australian Government…
Are GP Super Clinics the answer to the access problems?
, Moderated by Mr Robert Wells, Director of the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute
Professor Ian Chubb, Vice-Chancellor of The Australian National University, and the Honourable Warren Snowdon MP, Minister for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health and Regional Services Delivery,…
The Hon Fred Chaney AO
, Chair of Desert Knowledge Australia
The 85 per cent of Australia that is remote from the main centres of population is a place of recurrent crises leading to ad hoc special interventions. Broken up by state and territory boundaries it…
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…
Rod Quantock, Comedian, Writer and Climate Change Activist
Rod Quantock says, "If climate change doesn't scare you, then you don't get the science." Fortunately Quantock does, and when he gives you his take on the physics, chemistry, biology, geology, palaeontology,…
Professor M. Nazif Shahrani, Professor of Anthropology, Central Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Indiana University
Shifting resources from Iraq to the so called ‘war of necessity' in Afghanistan by President Obama, while significant, is unlikely to be effective. This is largely because the fundamental assumptions…
Richard Woolcott AC , Prime Ministers Special Envoy for the Asia Pacific Community
In June 2008, the Australian Prime Minister, the Hon. Kevin Rudd, spoke of the need to begin a "regional debate about where we want to be in 2020". In particular, he outlined the need for an Asia Pacific…
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
Bruce Haigh, Political Commentator and Former Diplomat
Bruce Haigh argues that Australian foreign policy has been, and remains, inept in advancing Australia's national interest. Given the limited independence of Australia's Foreign Minister,…
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…
Professor Amin Saikal, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies
The Islamic government of oil-rich Iran is faced with its worst legitimacy crisis since the Iranian revolution that toppled the Shah's pro-Western monarchy and replaced it with an Islamic regime thirty…
His Royal Highness Prince Turki AlFaisal, Chairman of the Board, The King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies Riyadh
HRH Prince Turki AlFaisal is Chairman of the Board of the King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh. He is one of Saudi Arabia's leading intellectuals, with a very rich record…
Dr David Kilcullen, Counterterrorism Strategist
In the first few years of the post-9/11 era, the established models for fighting ‘small wars' proved distressingly ineffective against resilient insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan.…
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,…
Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, European Commissioner for Energy
The world faces monumental challenges of ensuring energy supply can meet ever growing needs, while urgently reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The current course we are on will see global energy demand…
Dr Thomas E. Mann, W. Averell Harriman Chair and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution
Thomas Mann examined President Obama's transition to governing and his first months in office. Particular attention was paid to the organization and staffing of his administration and the setting of…
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…
H.E. Dr Seyed Mohammad Khatami, Former President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Our interdependent world creates both new opportunities and new challenges. The gravest danger today is insecurity, which has taken on global proportions. In order to deal with the threat…
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…
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…
Jon Stanhope and Zed Seselja , ACT Chief Minister and ACT opposition Leader
This forum is the last of three public forums hosted by The Australian National University and The Canberra Times. The three forums pit 2008 ACT Election candidates against…
Deputy Chief Minister Katy Gallagher and Deputy Leader of the Opposition Brendan Smyth
This forum is the second of three public forums hosted by The Australian National University and The Canberra Times. The three forums pit 2008 ACT Election candidates…
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…
Frank Pangallo and Richard J Mulcahy
This forum is the first of three public forums hosted by The Australian National University and The Canberra Times. The three forums pit 2008 ACT Election candidates against…
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…
Mr Ian Macfarlane, AC, Former Governor of The Reserve Bank of Australia
This lecture was the Sixth Sir Roland Wilson Foundation Lecture. The lecture expands on the final chapter of Macfarlane's 2006 Boyer Lectures, which suggested that future economic shocks…
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…
Dr Clinton Fernandes , Senior Lecturer in Strategic Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, UNSW, ADFA
Dr Fernandes provides a critical evaluation of what is often portrayed as a noble moment in Australia's history of overseas interventions. He shows that a series of Australian strategists and policymakers…
Allan Behm
Australian security policy is increasingly irrelevant to the looming realities of the 21st century. A lack of strategic direction, a mish-mash of unconnected policies, and policy institutions…
Major General Jim Molan
The war in Iraq is as awful as any war, but that is never an excuse to wage it illegally or immorally. The only thing that will make the Iraq war worse than it is will be to ‘lose’. Major…
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…
Dr John Hart , Reader in Political Science, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Dr Hart will explore the main features of the Australian political system through comparison with the United States. He will compare and contrast the struggle of self-government in Australia and the…
Dr Norman Abjorensen, School of Social Sciences, ANU
Was the federation of the six Australian colonies into a Commonwealth of Australia really such a good idea? What were the alternatives? Might there have been a better way of doing things? The hard and…
Professor David Kennedy, Vice-President for International Affairs, Brown University
Warfare has become a legal institution. Law organises and disciplines the military, defines the battle-space, privileges killing the enemy, and offers a common language to debate the legitimacy of waging…
Professor Michael Wesley, Professor of International Relations and Director of the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
Officially we are still fighting a "War on Terror", but few people in Australia would say we are still living in an "Age of Terror". Oil prices have quadrupled, but we have not seen the same panicked…
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,…
Professor R.G. Gregory
The talk looks back over the period of the Hawke, Keating and Howard governments and discusses what has been learned and what has been forgotten. It offers conjectures on likely economic outcomes…
Hosted by Professor Ian Chubb AC
In this debate, ANU plays host to a number of influential public figures including ACT Attorney General Simon Corbell; Dr Clive Hamilton, The Australia Institute; Professor Peter Bailey, ANU; Channel…
Marian Sawer and Roslyn Dundas
Lecture One
Recipes For Revolt: What Made the Women's Movement Move?
In this lecture, Marian Sawer draws on her forthcoming history of Women's Electoral Lobby to explore…
Professor Ian Chubb, Vice-Chancellor, ANU
We now have an opportunity to reposition higher education for the future and to move away from tinkering and adjusting rather than coherently changing. While it will take some time to unstitch the knotted…
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 Michael Pusey, Australia & New Zealand School of Government
Has economic reform run its course? What potential remains for the resumption of nation building progress? Contrary to expectations Canberra emerges from 20 years of neo-liberalism with…
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…
Professor Larry May, Professor of Philosophy, Washington University
For several thousand years, philosophers, lawyers, and theologians have developed a theory of the just war, where rules are set for deciding when a war should be fought and what tactics can be employed…
Moderated by Mark Baker, Editor, The Canberra Times, Panel: Dr Rachel Bloul, Professor Kim Rubenstein, Clive Williams
Part of a series of public debates hosted by the Australian National University and The Canberra Times. Join a diverse panel of ANU experts in a lively discussion of the major issues driving this election.
Moderated by Andrew Fraser, Political Reporter, The Canberra Times, Panel: Dr Norm Abjorensen, Professor Job Altman, Dr Daniel Connell, Dr Andrew Leigh
Part of a series of public debates hosted by The Australian National University and The Canberra Times. A diverse panel of ANU experts in a lively discussion of the major issues driving this election.…
Moderated by Kate Hannon, The Canberra Times, Panel: Professor Bob Gregory, Dr Rick Kuhn, Dr Lindy Edwards
A series of public debates hosted by the Australian National University and The Canberra Times. A diverse panel of ANU experts in a lively discussion of the major issues driving this election.…
Professor Robin Jeffrey, Dean, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
The Sixth Annual Sir Leslie Melville Lecture Ranging over a period from the 19th century until today, this lecture examines various aspects of India’s ‘growth’…
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…
His Excellency, Mr Robert McCallum, Jr.
In this lecture, Ambassador Robert McCallum examines the results of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the bilateral meetings held on the margins of the forum including the prospects for enhanced…
Lieutenant General John Sanderson AC, Special Advisor on Indigenous Affairs to the Government of Western Australia
In this lecture, Lieutenant General John Sanderson argues that the national approach to Indigenous issues can broadly be described as ‘assimilationist’ – the belief that the only hope…
Hon Gareth Evans AO QC, President, International Crisis Group
The lecture was a joint presentation between The Australian National University and The Lowy Institute for International Policy.
Over the last decade there has been a serious, and dangerous,…
Professor Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
Having informed citizens is important to the health of any democracy. Scholars and journalists frequently suppose that affluent countries have systems of public knowledge on which their citizens can…
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…
Luis Moreno-Ocampo
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first permanent judicial body with jurisdiction over genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The ICC has recently embarked on its first prosecution:…
Will Hutton, Author
China’s phenomenal economic growth is paralleled in scale and speed only by the rise of the United States between the Civil War and the First World War in 1914. Since 1978 the economy has grown…
Clive Hamilton, Executive Director, Australia Institute
2007 may be the year in which climate change has hit the headlines and the environment has become the political issue, but how much do we know really know about the backroom deals, lobbying and power…
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