http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/ en celeste.ecuyer@anu.edu.au Copyright 2009 2009-11-05T03:40:10+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/abolishing_all_nuclear_weapons/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/abolishing_all_nuclear_weapons/#When:03:16:08Z 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 and the implications and security challenges nuclear weapons have for Australian Defence policy. Mr Fraser will also discuss the current Rudd Government's initiative of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferations and Disarmament, and what Australia can do to help abolish nuclear weapons. This was the 2009  Dr John Gee Memorial Lecture presented by the ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre and Lowy institute for International Policy. Public Lecture, International Law, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Asia and the Pacific 2009-11-05T03:16:08+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/does_china_play_by_our_rules_and_how_much_does_it_matter/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/does_china_play_by_our_rules_and_how_much_does_it_matter/#When:02:42:30Z 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 relations sharply in focus. Relations between these key trading partners appears rocky at a time many would have envisioned ties to be getting warmer. China's behaviour has prompted many to look at China's internal politics and rule of law, as well as the price paid for dealing with China and the implications of China's seemingly inevitable rise. Is Stern Hu a pawn in an as yet unclear larger political game? What rules are a giant like China playing by? How will these affect an inextricably linked Australia? Public Lecture, International Business, International Law, Policy & Political Science, Society & Culture, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU College of Law, Asia and the Pacific 2009-11-05T02:42:30+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/australia_china_relations_a_long_term_view/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/australia_china_relations_a_long_term_view/#When:02:32:51Z 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 to Australia and put in context recent events in the bilateral relationship. Public Lecture, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Asia and the Pacific 2009-11-05T02:32:51+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/war_20_political_violence_and_new_media_symposium_day_two/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/war_20_political_violence_and_new_media_symposium_day_two/#When:04:04:34Z 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. (New) media technology, in other words, has become a medium of war and diplomacy. This multidisciplinary two-day symposium on 7-8 October hosted by the Department of International Relations at the ANU mapped the shifting arena of war, conflict, terrorism, and violence in an intensely mediated age. The symposium brought together international relations academics, media scholars and media practitioners, policymakers and defence staff. It explored cultural, political, strategic, and technological transformations in media platforms and media participation and assess their impact on policy, publics, and outcomes of political conflict. The symposium addressed questions such as: What is 'new' about new media? How have the transformations in media technology influenced media-military relations? How have these transformations impacted upon traditional media actors? How are war, conflict, terrorism and violence represented; what are the consequences of these representations? In what ways has new media technology empowered marginalised voices in war, conflict, and terrorism? And how has the transformation of the media landscape impacted on the way states conduct their foreign policy? This event was hosted by ANU with the support of the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland.   Symposium, Journalism, News & Media, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Asia and the Pacific 2009-10-09T04:04:34+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/war_20_political_violence_and_new_media_symposium_day_one/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/war_20_political_violence_and_new_media_symposium_day_one/#When:03:44:18Z 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. (New) media technology, in other words, has become a medium of war and diplomacy. This multidisciplinary two-day symposium on 7-8 October hosted by the Department of International Relations at the ANU mapped the shifting arena of war, conflict, terrorism, and violence in an intensely mediated age. The symposium brought together international relations academics, media scholars and media practitioners, policymakers and defence staff. It explored cultural, political, strategic, and technological transformations in media platforms and media participation and assess their impact on policy, publics, and outcomes of political conflict. The symposium addressed questions such as: What is 'new' about new media? How have the transformations in media technology influenced media-military relations? How have these transformations impacted upon traditional media actors? How are war, conflict, terrorism and violence represented; what are the consequences of these representations? In what ways has new media technology empowered marginalised voices in war, conflict, and terrorism? And how has the transformation of the media landscape impacted on the way states conduct their foreign policy? This event is hosted by the ANU with the support of the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland.   Symposium, News & Media, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Asia and the Pacific 2009-10-09T03:44:18+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/one_year_after_garnaut_review/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/one_year_after_garnaut_review/#When:00:30:39Z 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 points fall on the New York Stock Exchange. Since then, the histories of the financial crisis and climate change policy have been closely linked. Amongst much else, they have been linked by the challenge that Governments have faced, in Australia, in the United States and elsewhere, in formulating policy in the national interest alongside an extraordinary presence of vested interests in the policy making process. This lecture analysed the past year's history of policy-making on climate change in this difficult context, and assess the prospects of the world developing a satisfactory response to the risks of dangerous human-induced climate change. Part of the Toyota-ANU Public Lecture Series 2009 Public Lecture, Economics, Environment, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Asia and the Pacific 2009-09-15T00:30:39+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/coal_the_elephant_in_the_room/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/coal_the_elephant_in_the_room/#When:04:52:34Z 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 Public Lecture, Environment, Policy & Political Science, Resource Management, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Asia and the Pacific 2009-09-14T04:52:34+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/koreas_division_system_regional_implications/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/koreas_division_system_regional_implications/#When:23:26:27Z 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 shift from a state- or ideology-oriented approach to a people-oriented one, focusing on the oppression of the preponderant majority of population on both sides. It also implies a shift to a global, rather than a nationalistic perspective since the division system is conceived as a sub-unit of the world-system. The lecture argues that the notion of a 'division-system' is useful in addressing many current issues, for example, the ongoing nuclear crisis in the peninsula and the question of human rights in North Korea. It will discuss various regional arrangements in which South Korea participates, noting the crucial absence of North Korea in most of them and the presence of Australia in a few. This lecture was the  Korea Institute Distinguished Lecture, presented by the ANU Korea Institute. Public Lecture, International Law, Law, Justice & Law Enforcement, Policy & Political Science, Society & Culture, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Asia and the Pacific 2009-08-31T23:26:27+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/russia_and_the_medvedev_presidency_one_year_on/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/russia_and_the_medvedev_presidency_one_year_on/#When:05:00:32Z 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 social programs, and to ensure that Russia sustains its position in the world. A year later, Medvedev's record in delivering on these promises is coming under intense scrutiny. What does Russian resurgence actually mean? How well has Russia ridden out the global financial storm? Is authoritarian rule in Russia on the wax or on the wane? What are Moscow's foreign policy objectives in dealing with the West, the Asia-Pacific, and former Soviet republics such as Georgia and Ukraine? Does Russian energy imperialism exist, or is it a product of Cold War-like paranoia? Who controls the Kremlin - Medvedev or Putin? The answers to these, and many other relevant questions, will be discussed to coincide with the first anniversary of Medvedev's inauguration as the President. Public Lecture, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Arts and Social Sciences, Asia and the Pacific 2009-08-13T05:00:32+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/should_we_ban_the_burka/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/should_we_ban_the_burka/#When:03:14:13Z 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 and non-Muslim societies. At one end of the spectrum the state has sought to enforce Islamic dress codes while at the opposite end the state has sought to ban certain items of women's religious dress.Under the Taliban, Afghan women were forbidden to appear in public unless they were wearing the all-enveloping burka. Now, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has proclaimed that the burka and other forms of face-covering are not welcome in France.In Australia, too, Muslim women's dress has been at the centre of a heated political and social debate.This public debate brought together three leading figures to discuss questions such as whether we should ban the burka or respect the right to wear it, if the burka is a form of male oppression, what would be the effect of banning a piece of women's clothing and does the state have a place in a woman's wardrobe? Moderated by Professor Hilary Charlesworth. Public Lecture, Philosophy & Religion, Society & Culture, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Arts and Social Sciences, Asia and the Pacific 2009-07-16T03:14:13+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/next_100_years/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/next_100_years/#When:04:13:59Z 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 wars will erupt (and how they will be fought), which nations will gain and lose economic and political power, and how new technologies and cultural trends will alter the way we live in the new century. Drawing on history and geopolitical patterns dating back hundreds of years, Friedman shows that we are now, for the first time in half a millennium, at the dawn of a new era - with changes in store, including: - The US-Jihadist war will conclude - replaced by a second full-blown cold war with Russia.- China will undergo a major extended internal crisis, and Mexico will emerge as an important world power.- A new global war will unfold toward the middle of the century between the United States and an unexpected coalition from Eastern Europe, Eurasia and the Far East; but armies will be much smaller and wars will be less deadly.- Technology will focus on space - both for major military uses and for a dramatic new energy resource that will have radical environmental implications. Public Lecture, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Asia and the Pacific 2009-06-30T04:13:59+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/defence_white_paper/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/defence_white_paper/#When:01:58:11Z 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, and the kind of role Australia expects to play in it.  This lecture explored the underlying policy logic of the White Paper, and discussed where it might take Australia.  Will it equip Australia to remain a middle power in the Asian Century, or mark our acceptance of a future as a small power?  Public Lecture, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Asia and the Pacific 2009-06-05T01:58:11+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/global_migration_of_skill/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/global_migration_of_skill/#When:04:12:05Z  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 different measures of ‘brain drain' and how they are related to wage and income differences across countries around the world. Based on new data sources, differences in the prices of skill across countries were estimated and were used to explore how skill price differentials affect the magnitudes and skill-intensity of permanent migration to the United States and Australia and the magnitudes and direction of the flows of foreign students. Particular attention was also paid to the circular flow of migration and to understanding the role of higher education in fostering the outflow of international students and their return to their home countries. Public Lecture, Economics, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU College of Business and Economics, Arts and Social Sciences, Asia and the Pacific, Business and Economics 2009-06-02T04:12:05+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/vanishing_third_world_emigrants/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/vanishing_third_world_emigrants/#When:04:03:15Z 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 have gone unnoticed partly because observers have been obsessed with immigration rates, and partly because of their belief that aging in rich countries will augment the demand for more immigrants. This lecture shows that the Third World supply side matters even more, just as the previous two centuries of history has shown. Third World migrants will begin to vanish from our midst as the 21st century unfolds. This lecture was filmed and broadcast by Slow TV and A-PAC Public Lecture, Economics, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU College of Business and Economics, Arts and Social Sciences, Asia and the Pacific 2009-04-03T04:03:15+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/wage_inequality_comparative_perspective/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/wage_inequality_comparative_perspective/#When:03:54:11Z 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 of the growth in inequality. A large number of explanations have been suggested for these observed changes, including technological progress and the computer revolution, labour market institutions and social norms, and changes in the relative supply of highly educated workers. The validity of these explanations will be assessed in light of the large differences in inequality growth across countries, and the stunning growth in the concentration of income at the top end of the distribution. Public Lecture, Economics, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU College of Business and Economics, Asia and the Pacific, Business and Economics 2009-04-03T03:54:11+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/clear_thinking_about_national_security/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/clear_thinking_about_national_security/#When:23:43:53Z 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 idea of what exactly the threat is, how serious it might be, and how it could most cost-effectively be addressed.  Major decisions are made on the most slender of bases: invading Iraq, rebuilding Afghanistan, toughening terrorism laws, buying battleships, have all been undertaken without due diligence by Governments, and the public seems hardly to expect any better.  Yet it should be possible to think clearly about national security and defence questions, applying to them the same standards of evidence, argument and diligence that we would expect in other areas of public policy.  In this lecture Professor Hugh White explored some recent examples of unclear thinking about national security in Australia, attempt to explain why such lapses from common standards of rationality are so common, and suggest some ways we could do better.  Along the way Professor White spoke about terrorism, bird flu, global warming and the rise of China. This Lecture was also filmed and broadcast on A-PAC. Public Lecture, Law, Justice & Law Enforcement, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Asia and the Pacific 2009-04-02T23:43:53+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/quarry_vision/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/quarry_vision/#When:02:00:17Z 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 politics and our response to climate change and what happens now that our coal-fired resources boom has gone bust? He also discussed the future of the coal industry and argued with the current economic orthodoxy. He looks at the shadowy world of greenhouse lobbyists; how they think and operate. Quarry vision, he argued, is a carbon-laced trap and a blind faith and a mentality we can no longer afford. This lecture comes from the March 2009 Quarterly Essay by Guy Pearse of the same name. Public Lecture, Environment, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU College of Science, Asia and the Pacific, Medicine and Life Science 2009-04-02T02:00:17+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/japan_australia_vision_future/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/japan_australia_vision_future/#When:01:51:45Z 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 history. Particularly focussing on: quick, coordinated action through the G20 to get the global economy working again enhancing our already close economic relationship through the early conclusion of a comprehensive free trade agreement turning our bilateral defence cooperation to efforts to improve regional and international security working together in multilateral fora on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament and harnessing our technological expertise and growing scientific cooperation in the effort to combat the effects of climate change. The lecture series is organised by the Australia-Japan Research Centre at the Australian National University with the assistance of a grant from the Australia-Japan Foundation. The lecture series honours the two individuals from Australia and Japan who made the greatest contribution to the post-World War Two normalisation of Australia-Japan relations, Sir John Crawford, then Secretary of the Department of Trade and later ANU Vice Chancellor, and Ambassador Haruhiko Nishi, Japan's first Ambassador to Australia (1953-55). The Australia-Japan Research Centre (AJRC) conducts research to explore and improve understanding of the economies and economic policy processes in Australia and Japan and both countries' strategic interests in the Asia Pacific economy. Its policy-oriented areas of interest cover developments in regional economic cooperation and integration and encompass research on trade, finance, macroeconomics and structural and regulatory reform, as well as international economic relations. Public Lecture, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Asia and the Pacific 2009-04-01T01:51:45+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/ecology_conservation_public_policy/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/ecology_conservation_public_policy/#When:01:28:46Z One of the great challenges of this century is to answer the question: Howdo we bring first class basic science to bear on important appliedproblems? Although the path is not completely clear, it is becoming moreso. Professor Mangel will address a series of sub-questions including: How does the nature of environmental problems differ from other kinds of problems? How do we deal with uncertainty, data and models? How can science support policy making? How do we and what should we learn from other disciplines? After answering these questions, he will provide some suggestions to thenext generation of biologists. Public Lecture, Biological Sciences, Economics, Environment, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Asia and the Pacific 2009-03-27T01:28:46+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/charting_towards_low_carbon_economy/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/charting_towards_low_carbon_economy/#When:03:53:08Z 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 requires the development of a robust national policy framework and to ensure a set of policies are in place that deliver abatement and adjustment at least cost to the economy. The second question requires an understanding of the causes, nature, and the scale of the economic impacts to achieve the transition to a low carbon future. The third and final question relates to the political economy of international action, and whether a robust and worthwhile agreement is achievable. The lecture  highlights the contribution of economics in providing a response to these important issues. Public Lecture, Economics, Environment, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Business and Economics 2008-12-08T03:53:08+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/reforming_united_nations/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/reforming_united_nations/#When:23:32:38Z  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 a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The MOU will give ANU graduate students the chance to apply directly for allocated internships with the UNDP - places fiercely contested by students worldwide. The MOU was signed today at the University by Professor Lawrence Cram, Acting Vice-Chancellor on behalf of the University and Dr Bruce Jenks, Assistant Secretary General of the UNDP and Director of the Bureau for Resources and Strategic Partnerships. Following the signing of the MOU, Dr Jenks spoke to graduate students, staff and alumni of the Graduate Studies in International Affairs on the subject of ‘Reforming the United Nations'. Public Lecture, International Law, Law, Justice & Law Enforcement, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific 2008-11-05T23:32:38+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/koreas_middle_power_foreign_policy_in_the_21st_century/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/koreas_middle_power_foreign_policy_in_the_21st_century/#When:01:01:57Z 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 North Korean nuclear weapons problem, the rise of China, and human security issues. Korea's foreign policy postures both at bilateral and multilateral levels is also provided. The lecture concludes with a brief introduction of Korea's alliance strategy, policy toward North Korea, policy toward neighbouring countries, and it's leadership role in the Asia-Pacific multilateralism. Public Lecture, International Business, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Asia and the Pacific, Business and Economics 2008-10-07T01:01:57+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/the_14th_annual_lions_oratory_competition_2008/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/the_14th_annual_lions_oratory_competition_2008/#When:02:06:30Z 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 Lions Oratory Trophy and prizes totaling $3,000 in cash. The event was hoseted by Esther Sainsbury, last years winner of the 2007 Lions Oratory Competition and judged by an esteemed panel of public-speaking experts. The oratory saw speakers addressing a range of subjects incorporating the Lions' messages of truth, righteousness, peace, love and non-violence - the core values of all major religions.Prizes included: First prize - The ManikKam Reddy Award: $1,500Second prize: $800Third prize: $500Donated by the Lions Club of Canberra Woden People's Choice Award: $400Donated by the Australian National University and the Lions Club of Canberra Woden Public Lecture, Humanities, Society & Culture, Student Life, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU College of Business and Economics, ANU College of Law, ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences, ANU College of Science, University, Arts and Social Sciences, Asia and the Pacific, Business and Economics, Campus Life, Law, Medicine and Life Science 2008-09-24T02:06:30+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/2008_k_r_narayanan_oration_why_environmentalism_needs_equity/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/2008_k_r_narayanan_oration_why_environmentalism_needs_equity/#When:01:57:53Z "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 of the Society for Environmental Communications; and publisher of the fortnightly magazine 'Down to Earth', has been with the Centre from 1982 and has worked hard at analysing and studying the relationship between environment and development, and at creating public consciousness about the need for sustainable development. Her research interests are wide-ranging - from global democracy, with a special focus on climate change, to the need for local democracy, within which she has worked both on forest-related resource management and water-related issues. Ms Narain began her career by writing and researching for the State of India's Environment reports and then went on to study issues related to forest management. For this project she travelled across the country to understand people's management of natural resources, and in 1989 co-authored the publication Towards Green Villages advocating local participatory democracy as the key to sustainable development. In the early 1990s she became involved with global environmental issues and continues to work on these as researcher and advocate. Ms Narain remains an active participant, both nationally and internationally, in civil society. She serves on the boards of various organisations and on governmental committees and has spoken at many fora across the world on issues of her concern and expertise. Public Lecture, Environment, Policy & Political Science, Society & Culture, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Asia and the Pacific 2008-09-24T01:57:53+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/the_evolution_of_economic_policy_on_climate_change/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/the_evolution_of_economic_policy_on_climate_change/#When:04:38:58Z 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 mitigation as a dynamic optimal control problem and (2) the willingness to pay of the present generation to ensure future generations against the potential adverse impacts of climate change. The presentation examines the challenges of the economics of international co-operation, the choice of economic instruments for climate mitigation, uncertainty, climate adaptation, abrupt climate change, induced technological change, discounting, and equity considerations. Economics, Environment, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU College of Business and Economics, Asia and the Pacific, Business and Economics 2008-09-05T04:38:58+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/regional_security_and_middle_power_diplomacy/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/regional_security_and_middle_power_diplomacy/#When:01:47:39Z 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 Rudd Government's approach to regional security and middle power diplomacy. He will cover the role of the three pillars - the US alliance, membership of the United Nations, and comprehensive engagement with the countries of Asia and the Pacific - in shaping Australia's role in the region and the world. Dr Kelly will also outline Australia's approach to new and emerging regional security challenges from a Defence perspective, including the importance of relationships and alliances to regional stability in the 21st century.About Dr John GeeDr John Gee served with distinction as an Australian diplomat in a number of countries. His greatest contribution, however, was in the field of disarmament, where he had a particular interest in chemical weapons. After a period as a Commissioner on the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq following the first Gulf War, he became Deputy Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague, serving there until 2003. In recognition of his achievements, Dr Gee was made a member of the Order of Australia in January 2007. For more information on the Lowy Institute for International Policy go to: http://www.lowyinstitute.org/ Law, Justice & Law Enforcement, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Asia and the Pacific, Business and Economics 2008-09-05T01:47:39+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/the_australia_us_relationship_its_place_in_our_histories_in_the_context_of_/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/the_australia_us_relationship_its_place_in_our_histories_in_the_context_of_/#When:01:39:14Z 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 economic giants in Asia. In 1941 that hope come true. Today Australians still regards American primacy in Asia as the foundation of their security, and they have become perhaps Americas most consistent and supportive ally as a result. But our relationships with Asia has changed a lot since then, and the choices that Australians will face in the Asian Century may be more complex than those we make back in 1908, or in 1941. How do Australian see their relationship with the US today, and how might it evolve over the decades to come?     Seminar, History & Archeology, International Business, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Asia and the Pacific, Business and Economics 2008-08-20T01:39:14+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/climate_change_mitigation/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/climate_change_mitigation/#When:04:26:58Z 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 we measure and compare market and non-market costs with the benefits of climate change mitigation. He explores the value judgements that must be made when comparing welfare of people with different incomes and wealth, living in different countries, at different times. He also looks at how these conceptual challenges are compounded by uncertainties in scientific and economic analysis. Finally, he examines the awful uncertainties within which Australian and other governments are compelled to make fateful decisions or equally fateful non-decisions in the years immediately ahead. This was the Sixth HW Arndt Memorial Lecture. >> Watch it on SlowTV Public Lecture, Economics, Environment, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Asia and the Pacific 2008-06-10T04:26:58+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/realism_peace/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/realism_peace/#When:22:27:00Z 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, in the form of wars, insurgencies, violent revolutions and counter-revolutions, and terrorism constitutes a major human challenge today as so often in the past. The challenge is not only to life and limb, but also to morality itself. Professor Coady puts the problems posed by this challenge into the frame of reflective ethics. Against the background of a contemporary approach to just war thinking, he examines the right to make war, moral dimensions to the conduct of war, terrorism, mercenary warriors, conscientious objection, the rights of combatants and non-combatants, the ideal of peace and much else. Public Lecture, Law, Justice & Law Enforcement, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Arts and Social Sciences 2008-05-06T22:27:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/future_un_security_council/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/future_un_security_council/#When:01:33:00Z 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 were already at historically high levels of activity in 2006-2007. Can they take on any more? NATO, the EU, the US, the Nordics, and Australia and New Zealand also seem to be stretched to the limit. Perhaps it is time for some searching analysis of whether the current machinery for international collective security is up to the challenges of the 21st Century. The UN Security Council is at the heart of that system. But is it living up to its potential? Can it be reformed and what kinds of reforms might improve the overall outlook? What does the future hold? These are all important questions at a time when Australia is exploring new options for an enhanced multilateral role. Public Lecture, Law, Justice & Law Enforcement, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Law 2008-02-19T01:33:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/climate_change_platinum_age/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/climate_change_platinum_age/#When:23:33:00Z 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 for global emissions within which the world will need to live if the risk of dangerous climate change is to be kept within acceptable bounds? What principles could be reasonably applied to the allocation of a global emissions budget amongst countries? What global emissions budget would make sense for Australia? What would these principles suggest for Australia’s climate change policy? Dr S.T. Lee comes from a distinguished family in Singapore that has for many years supported various community, educational and research causes. Since the early 1990s, Dr Lee has supported a number of scholarly projects around the world, and in 2007 endowed an annual lecture at ANU named the S.T. Lee Lecture on Asia and the Pacific. This annual lecture will provide opportunities for distinguished figures from the Asia-Pacific to speak on developments and trends in the region and draw attention to crucial issues that affect us all. Public Lecture, Economics, Environment, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Arts and Social Sciences 2007-11-29T23:33:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/coercive_reconciliation/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/coercive_reconciliation/#When:02:52:00Z 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 an unprecedented set of actions, the Commonwealth has taken direct control of communities, overriding the authority of both the NT Government and local community organisations in the name of creating safe and healthy environments for children. In this public lecture, Dr Hinkson, Professor Behrendt, Ms Watson and Professor Altman contributors to the first book about the intervention Coercive Reconciliation: Stabilise, Normalise, Exit Aboriginal Australia assess the intervention from the perspectives of human rights, welfare and land rights reforms, Indigenous representation and reconciliation, and the recognition of cultural diversity. Public Lecture, Law, Justice & Law Enforcement, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, University, Law 2007-10-16T02:52:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/india_shining_or_whining/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/india_shining_or_whining/#When:03:09:00Z 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 cyclical? If there has been structural change, what are the reasons behind it? In this lecture, Professor Bibek Debroy explores whether growth has been pro-rich or beneficial to the poor; what poverty figures show, and what role inequality has played. He asks why Indian agriculture not been growing fast enough, consider problems with employment generation, and teases out what the geographical divide can tell us. Finally, he asks what policy interventions can do to bridge this divide, outlining the pending agenda of reforms. Public Lecture, Economics, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Asia and the Pacific 2007-10-03T03:09:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/coping_climate_change_india/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/coping_climate_change_india/#When:00:09:00Z 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 economic growth, have put considerable stress on the environment even as it is already saddled with high emissions from the developed world. The 2007 K R Narayanan Oration  by Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri questions whether such growth patterns can be sustained into the future and what options are available for ensuring that the adverse impact of economic growth on the environment is manageable. Public Lecture, Architecture, Urban Environment & Building, Economics, Environment, Humanities, Policy & Political Science, Society & Culture, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Asia and the Pacific 2007-09-17T00:09:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/australians_fraser/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/australians_fraser/#When:03:50:00Z 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 within Australia and the perception of other people of Australia? Former Prime Minister of Australia Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser discusses the implications of independence as a state. Public Lecture, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Arts and Social Sciences 2007-05-01T03:50:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/missing_dimension_stateness/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/missing_dimension_stateness/#When:05:13:01Z 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 about weak states and foreign intervention has received less attention in Australia. In this lecture he continues his review of policies and practices on international aid and the rebuilding of weak, failing and failed states. As Professor Fukuyama has argued, “state-building is one of the most important issues for the world community”, but the history of the last 30 years has shown that the ‘conventional wisdom’ and much expenditure have not resulted in the building of efficient, just and economically vigorous states. Professor Fukuyama does not concede that because foreign aid has had slight (and sometimes a negative) impact it should be abandoned. He has put the case for long-term commitment, pragmatic assessment of what works, stimulation of demand in recipient states and sensitivity to local cultural forces. Now, he returns to the broad issues of aid and state formation, and draws on observations resulting from his research and travel in Melanesia and elsewhere. The organisers, State Society and Governance in Melanesia at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, are grateful to the Australian Government through AusAID for its support of this event. Public Lecture, Economics, Policy & Political Science, Society & Culture, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Arts and Social Sciences, Asia and the Pacific 2006-12-18T05:13:01+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/architecture_climate_change/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/architecture_climate_change/#When:03:19:00Z 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 new institutions for dealing with global macroeconomic interdependence. Today the world is grappling with a far more complex set of problems related to environmental interdependence on a global scale. In this lecture, Professor Warwick McKibbin argues that major countries must respond to the issue of climate change, taking into account the enormous uncertainties that are involved. He discusses the key features of the climate change policy problem and will outline a policy framework that would allow an effective but flexible response to what may be the major issue of our time. Public Lecture, Economics, Environment, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Business and Economics, Physical Science 2006-10-31T03:19:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/east_timor/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/east_timor/#When:03:29:00Z In his first visit to Australia as Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, Dr Jose Ramos-Horta discusses the current political situation in his country. Dr Ramos-Horta, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and accomplished diplomat, was handed one of the biggest challenges of his life on 10 July 2006, he became Timor-Leste’s second Prime Minister. He came to the position amid high expectations that he restore political stability, reconstitute the security forces, promote development, eradicate corruption and revive public faith in the country’s fledgling democracy. Although conditions remain bleak, he is widely viewed as the best person for promoting reconciliation and restoring hope. In accepting the difficult task of Prime Minister, he put aside personal ambition by withdrawing from the shortlist of candidates for the United Nations Secretary-General. This lecture was presented by the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. Public Lecture, Biological Sciences, Law, Justice & Law Enforcement, Policy & Political Science, Society & Culture, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Arts and Social Sciences, Asia and the Pacific 2006-10-13T03:29:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/proliferating_preferences/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/proliferating_preferences/#When:05:30:00Z 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 the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific and the ANU College of Business and Economics – Professor Jagdish Bhagwati argues that bilateral, sub-regional and regional free trade agreements, and the granting of one-way preferences to developing countries of choice, are creating a massive erosion of the non-discrimination that the architects of GATT endorsed as a central principle of the world-trading regime. Professor Bhagwati documents this erosion and addresses ways in which we must respond to it. Public Lecture, Commerce, Economics, International Business, Policy & Political Science, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU College of Business and Economics, Asia and the Pacific, Business and Economics 2006-08-17T05:30:00+10:00 http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/such_a_long_journey/ http://www.anu.edu.au/discoveranu/content/podcasts/such_a_long_journey/#When:06:16:00Z 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, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific. In this lecture, Suman K. Bery looked at the steps India needs to take before it can fulfill its potential and become one of the world's great economic powers. He focused on India’s management of its exchange rate and monetary policy, including the opening of its capital account and the management of its fiscal rate and reserves. Mr Bery argued that this is the right time for India to adopt convertibility of the rupee on the capital account and enhance economic growth prospects, because of its current large foreign exchange reserves. A paper by Lal, Bery & Pant, The Real Exchange Rate, Fiscal Deficits and Capital Flows, is available on request from asarc@anu.edu.au Public Lecture, Commerce, Economics, International Business, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Asia and the Pacific, Business and Economics 2006-02-27T06:16:00+10:00