Chris Richardson
, Director of Deloitte Access Economics
2012 has so far seen a buoyant share market, rising commodity prices, positive news on the US economy and a better…
Hans-Josef Fell, MP
, Member of the German Federal Parliament and Energy Policy Speaker for the German Greens
The adoption of the EEG led directly to the phenomenally successful German feed-in tariff policy. The EEG is the…
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…
Professor Chris Goodnow
, Head of the Department of Immunology at JCSMR
2nd Annual John Curtin Lecture in Medical Research, entitled 'Switching the immune system off: the keys to autoimmunity, allergy, immune…
Raimond Gaita
, Author & Lecturer at the University of Melbourne
The Herbert & Valmae Freilich Foundation Annual Lecture in Bigotry and Intolerance 2011
Dr Judith Ajani
, ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society
Australia’s forestry industry and foresters argue that, from a climate change perspective, we should substitute…
Professor Paul Dibb
, Emeritus Professor, Chairman of the Advisory Board, School of International, Political & Strategic Studies
It is now 20 years since the sudden and catastrophic collapse of the former Soviet Union. A huge amount of analytical…
Dr Bob Wells
, Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute
The Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute held an Information Session for prospective applicants for funding…
Sophie McNeill
, Foreign Correspondent
Sophie McNeill is an award winning foreign correspondent who has covered some of the world’s most difficult…
Dr Dan Arvizu
, Director of the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Dr Dan Arvizu, the Director of the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) provides an overview of US and…
Ambassador Karl Eikenberry
, Former US Ambassador to Afghanistan
…
Professor Alan Smith and Dr Ady James
As part of Mt Stromlo’s centenary celebrations for 2011, this lecture series provides an opportunity to hear…
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 Annette Gordon-Reed
, Professor of Law and Professor of History at Harvard University.
Thomas Jefferson enslaved over 700 people…
The Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG, Professor AJ Brown
'Michael Kirby Paradoxes and Principles' is the first biography of the honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG; written by one of Australia's leading public law and polictical science acholars, AJ Brown. …
Betty Churcher
Join Betty Churcher on a personal tour of her most beloved works, including masterpieces by Rembrandt, Goya, Manet, Velázquez, Courbet, Vermeer and Cézanne.
Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Professor Tony McMichael and Professor Stephen Howes
Three internationally renowned speakers discuss how environmental, political, economic and cultural characteristics of societies shape conditions in which people live, work and age.
Inequities…
Professor Jonathan Lomas
Professor Jonathan Lomas
Mr Bob Wells, Dir APHCRI; Ms Vicki Murphy, Dept of Health and Ageing; Dr Dagmar Ceramidas, APHCRI, and Mr Will Wright
The Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI) at The Australian National University (ANU) has opened…
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…
Adjunct Professor Steven Lewis
, Adjunct Professor of Health Policy at the University of Calgary and Simon Fraser University
Insurance has been a dominant concept in health care in the industrialized world since the late 19th century, originating in the Bismarckian welfare state. Today, insurance is a method for organizing…
Professor Amin Saikal AM
, Head, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, ANU
Professor Amin Saikal AM fom the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies ANU gives a public lecture on 'Afghanistan on the brink'.
Afghanistan is in a state of crisis. The same applies to the…
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…
Dr Peter Stanley
, Head, Centre for Historical Research, National Museum of Australia
Dr Peter Stanley is currently researching Australia's Great War through the experience of people with the family name Smith, and German-Australians called Schmidt. Through diaries, letters, memoirs,…
Professor Cathy N. Davidson
, Duke University
Does the Internet really make us dumber, as some pundits argue? And dumber than what? This lecture talked about what it means to think through and with new information technologies, placing both these…
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…
Professor Ngo Van Long
, James McGill Professor of Economics
This lecture reviews the literature on the voluntary contributions to public goods by repeatedly-interacting contributors and discusses how the economic theory of choice of sequences of actions sheds…
Professor Kit Fine
, Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics
In this lecture, Professor Kit Fine will explore the notion of truth-makers. What are truth-makers? He will argue that truth-makers are helpful for understanding how things are true but not for understanding…
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…
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.
Dr Sergei Grigoryev
, Milton S. Hersey Medical Center, Penn State University
The DNA in our cells is tightly packed into structures called chromosomes. The role of the physical structure of chromosomes in diseases and genetics is being explored thanks to recent advances in technology…
Dr Michael Watkins
, NASA Jet Propulsion Labratory
The Earth's gravity field varies from place to place and from one day to the next. The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) is a revolutionary satellite system that allows scientists to use…
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…
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…
Dr Judith Ajani
, Economist, Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU
Many plantation managed investment companies have collapsed. A pulp mill proposal struggles to find financiers. A stock exchange listed forestry company requests a share trading halt while it tries…
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.
Dr Bradley Opdyke
, President, ACT Division of the Geological Society of Australia
People are constantly asking how today's climate compares with detailed climate records from tens of thousands of years ago to tens of millions of years ago. To the best of our knowledge, we have to…
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…
Dr Aaron Bernstein
, Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston
Biodiversity loss, namely a reduction in the variety of life on Earth, continues relatively unabated worldwide. Biodiversity loss represents far more than a loss to experience nature's beauty or to…
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…
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…
Dr Kim Toffoletti
, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Gender Studies at Deakin University
Allegations of sexual misconduct by sportsmen seem to appear in the Australian news media on a disturbingly regular basis. Why is it that male athletes of major sports like football and rugby are often…
Professor Shirley Brice Heath
, Professor at Large, Stanford and Brown Universities
Anthropologists who study socialisation tend to do so in order to compare modes and values of child-rearing or to examine the role of language in child-rearing. Rarely have anthropologists attended…
Hosted by Professor Will Steffen
, Executive Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute
What really went on at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference? Was it a fiasco or a positive step forward? Those are some of the questions that were addressed by a panel of experts at The Australian…
The Hon Bob Hawke AC
, Former Prime Minister of Australia
Former Prime Minister, The Hon Bob Hawke AC, delivered the inaugural ANU Commencement Address to mark the beginning of the 2010 academic year at The Australian National University on Friday 19 February.…
Professor Roel Snieder
, WM Keck Distinguished Professor, Colorado School of Mines
A stable and sustainable energy supply is one of the major issues of this Century. World-energy demand is expected to increase by about 70% in the coming 20 years, while the production of petroleum…
Dr Andrew Bazemore
, Assistant Director, Robert Graham Center, Washington DC
Since President Barrack Obama took office early this year, Congress has proposed bold actions to address the ailing United States health care system. In a system that spends $2.4 trillion each year…
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…
Professor Pim Cuijpers
, Professor of Clinical Psychology, VU University, Amsterdam
Depression is expected to be the disorder with the highest burden in western countries by 2030. Treating the disease has limited impact, but can prevention of depression help in reducing this burden?…
Professor Tony McMichael and Professor John Mackenzie
, National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, ANU and Formerly of the World Health Organisation
Climate change raises a number of challenges to human wellbeing, among these is the threat to our health. In combination with climate change, large-scale global environmental changes such…
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…
Emeritus Professor R.G. Gregory, Professor of Economics, Research School of Social Sciences
Professor Gregory will look back and analyse employment, skill imbalances, hours worked and welfare interactions in each of the economic booms and slumps over the last four decades and…
Professor Greg Gibson, Professor of Biology and Director of the Center for Integrative Genomics Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
This address introduces the ideas in Professor Greg Gibson's new book It Takes a Genome. The last two years have seen a revolution in genome scientists' ability to find the genes…
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…
Dr Stephen Campbell, Senior Research Fellow, National Primary Care Research and Development Centre, University of Manchester
Governments, internationally and in Australia, are increasingly encouraging team-based care in frontline health systems using various incentives. Dr Campbell will provide an overview of the impact of…
Terri Janke, Solicitor Director, Terri Janke & Company
In the past 20 years Indigenous Australians have called for greater recognition of Indigenous cultural and intellectual property rights. The intellectual property system doesn't acknowledge Indigenous…
Dr Kurt Stange, Professor of Family Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Oncology and Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
Commonwealth Government needs to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Australia's health care system. Primary health care provides the first point of contact for patients and is touted as the…
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Human Ecology & Director, Unit for Biocultural Variation & Obesity, University of Oxford
Obesity has increased dramatically across the world, and there is currently no solution to its control. While obesity is easily understood as the positive imbalance of energy intake and…
Professor Simon Conway Morris, Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Orthodox neo-Darwinism very much emphasises the random and contingent. Re-run the tape of life, as Steven Jay Gould famously observed, and the outcomes would be utterly different. Terrestrial…
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Professor Terence Tao, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
"God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers" - Paul Erdos The prime numbers are a fascinating blend of both structure…
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…
David Malouf , Author
This lecture was give at the official launch of the new ANU Bachelor of Classical Studies and the Classics Endowment.
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
Professor Graeme Davison, Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor, Monash University
Fifty years after its publication Russel Ward's book The Australian Legend remains the classic account of our national origins. In tracing Australia's national ethos to the folksongs…
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,…
The Hon Kevin Rudd MP, Prime Minister of Australia
The Hon Kevin Rudd MP, Prime Minister of Australia, gave the 2009 Burgmann College Annual Lecture.
Emeritus Professor Ian Ferguson , Forest & Ecosystem Science, University of Melbourne
The sustainability of the Ash forests of Victoria is contentious for a number of reasons, not least because of the pressures of population and economic growth, and climate change on their diverse uses.…
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