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Information for prospective Applicants to CRE (March 21 2011)

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…

The case against health insurance (November 10 2010)

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…

Burma votes 2010 - Episode 2 (November 08 2010)

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…

Burma votes 2010 - Episode 1 (November 02 2010)

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…

Afghanistan on the brink (October 11 2010)

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

Abandon the Alliance? How China’s rise will shape Australia’s future (September 22 2010)

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…

16th Annual Lions Oratory Competition 2010 (September 15 2010)

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

Smiths in Stasiland: Archival reminders of an uncomfortable Australian past (September 14 2010)

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,…

Too much to do, too little of you- Alumni and friends life skills seminar (August 28 2010)

Carole Brown

, Manager of Staff and Career Development, ANU

A group of almost fifty ANU Alumni and Friends attended the inaugural Open Day Life Skills Seminar on Saturday 28 August, presented by Carole Brown, Manager of Staff Career Development at ANU…

The future of thinking in an information age (August 16 2010)

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…

Public Goods: Some inter-temporal considerations (July 13 2010)

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…

Truth Maker Semantics (June 29 2010)

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 for the Department of Climate Change

Climate Change and the Australian Reform Agenda (June 28 2010)

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…

Democracy in Timor-Leste: Challenges and Prospects (June 22 2010)

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.

Thailand in Crisis- Episode 4 (June 18 2010)

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…

The Hon Bob Hawke AC

2010 University Commencement Address (February 19 2010)

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.…

15th Annual Lions Oratory Competition 2009

15th Annual Lions Oratory Competition 2009 (September 16 2009)

Connie Chong, Andaleeb Akhand, Arjuna Dibley, Brendan Moloney, Chelsea Mullavey, Melanie Poole, Harriet Riley & Jennifer Zhu, Master of Ceremonies and Contestants in the 2009 Lions Oratory Competition

In this year's Fifteenth 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…

Professor the Hon Kim Beazley AC

Ceremony for the Installation of the Eleventh Chancellor of The Australian National University (February 19 2009)

Various Speakers

Ceremony for the Installation of Professor the Hon Kim Beazley AC as the Eleventh Chancellor of The Australian National University.

Program

National Anthem sung by Chloe Angel.

ANU Vice-Chancellor Ian Chubb

Australian Higher Education - What the Public Thinks (September 11 2008)

Professor Ian Chubb AC, Vice-Chancellor of The Australian National University

The second ANU Poll measures public opinion towards higher education. With the Australian Government's promise of an ‘Education Revolution' and the current review of higher education in full swing,…

Physics Students Uncovered

Physics Students Uncovered (August 14 2008)

Graham Dennis, Amrita Prasad, Maurits Evers, Guy Micklethwait, Lachlan Rogers, ANU Physics PhD students

As part of National Science Week, the ANU College of Science recently pitted 5 Physics PhD students against each other in a competition to showcase their presentation skills, passion and ability to…

Mr Mike Gallagher

‘Setting the scene’: University and higher education systems (August 05 2008)

Mr Mike Gallagher and Professor Bruce Chapman, Chief Executive Office of Group of Eight, Professor ANU Crawford School of Economics and Government

Mr Gallagher and Professor Chapman set the scene on the Higher Education sector and how it operates in both Australia and the US, highlighting the different historical settings, funding arrangements,…

Mr Mark Dollhopf

Engaging University Alumni in Community & Business Development (August 05 2008)

Mr Mark Dollhopf, Mrs Ilona Emmerth and Mr Edward Greenberg, Executive Director of Association of Yale Alumni, Yale Alumna & Yale Alumnus

This talk looks at discoveries made at the Yale Club of Pittsburgh of the best ways to engage alumni and to attract alumni of all ages and all backgrounds to become involved in the Yale Club and…