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In conversation with Ross Garnaut

February 25, 2021 05:52 - 1 hour - 55.2 MB

Ross Garnaut is in conversation on his new book, Reset: Restoring Australia after the Pandemic Recession, in which Garnaut shows how the COVID-19 crisis offers Australia the opportunity to reset its economy and build a successful future - and why the old approaches will not work. Garnaut develops the idea of a renewable superpower, calls for a basic income and explores what the 'decoupling' of China and America will mean for Australia. In the wake of COVID-19, the world has entered its deepe...

In Conversation with Andrew Leigh

February 04, 2020 23:03 - 1 hour - 55.7 MB

Andrew Leigh is in conversation with Brian Schmidt on Andrew's new book with Joshua Gans, Innovation + Equality: How to Create a Future That Is More Star Trek Than Terminator. Is economic inequality the price we pay for innovation? The amazing technological advances of the last two decades-in such areas as artificial intelligence, genetics, and materials-have benefited society collectively and rewarded innovators handsomely: we get cool smartphones and technology moguls become billionaires. ...

Solar Oration: Fleur Yaxley

December 16, 2019 05:55 - 1 hour - 75.1 MB

The ANU Energy Update is the ECI's annual flagship event - a one-day summit that brings together energy researchers, policymakers, industry and the public to provide an overview of the latest world energy trends. This day features national and international presenters from government, research and the private sector discussing a range of energy issues including global and regional outlooks, new technologies, energy security, energy access and energy productivity.

Focus session: Future Electricity Markets Summit

December 16, 2019 05:26 - 1 hour - 83.4 MB

The ANU Energy Update is the ECI's annual flagship event - a one-day summit that brings together energy researchers, policymakers, industry and the public to provide an overview of the latest world energy trends. This day features national and international presenters from government, research and the private sector discussing a range of energy issues including global and regional outlooks, new technologies, energy security, energy access and energy productivity.

Focus session: National Hydrogen Strategy

December 16, 2019 05:01 - 1 hour - 89.4 MB

The ANU Energy Update is the ECI's annual flagship event - a one-day summit that brings together energy researchers, policymakers, industry and the public to provide an overview of the latest world energy trends. This day features national and international presenters from government, research and the private sector discussing a range of energy issues including global and regional outlooks, new technologies, energy security, energy access and energy productivity.

Special presentation: Ian Cronshaw, formerly International Energy Agency (IEA)

December 16, 2019 04:41 - 1 hour - 72.4 MB

The ANU Energy Update is the ECI's annual flagship event - a one-day summit that brings together energy researchers, policymakers, industry and the public to provide an overview of the latest world energy trends. This day features national and international presenters from government, research and the private sector discussing a range of energy issues including global and regional outlooks, new technologies, energy security, energy access and energy productivity.

Keynote presentation: Audrey Zibelman, CEO, The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO)

December 16, 2019 04:22 - 1 hour - 70.7 MB

The ANU Energy Update is the ECI's annual flagship event - a one-day summit that brings together energy researchers, policymakers, industry and the public to provide an overview of the latest world energy trends. This day features national and international presenters from government, research and the private sector discussing a range of energy issues including global and regional outlooks, new technologies, energy security, energy access and energy productivity.

Treaty: Future legal issues for Indigenous agreement making in Australia

December 16, 2019 01:54 - 1 hour - 55.5 MB

The Hon. Robert French AC speaks on the future legal issues of formalising a treaty agreement with Australia's First Nations people. Mr French served as a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia from November 1986 until his appointment as Chief Justice of the High Court on 1 September 2008. From 1994 to 1998 he was the President of the National Native Title Tribunal. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia and Monash University, a Distinguished Honorary Professor a...

In conversation with William Dalrymple

October 30, 2019 06:44 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MB

William Dalrymple is in conversation with Meera Ashar on William's new book, The Anarchy. The Relentless Rise of the East India Company. In his most ambitious and riveting book to date, The Anarchy, William Dalrymple tells the timely and cautionary tale of the rise of the East India Company, the first global corporate power. In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants...

The First Eight Project: So much more than a Prime Minister - Andrew Fisher (1862-1928)

October 30, 2019 02:57 - 1 hour - 65.3 MB

Recorded at Australia House, London on 22 October 2019 with introduction by the Hon George Brandis QC, High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. The remarkable contribution to Australian political life made by Andrew Fisher, Australia’s fifth Prime Minister, has only just begun to receive a measure of the recognition it deserves. Employed as a pit boy in the Scottish coal mines as a nine-year old, Fisher eventually migrated to Queensland aged 22, in 1885, and shortly after joined the fledgli...

Chat 10 Looks 3 LIVE with Leigh Sales & Annabel Crabb

December 12, 2017 01:08 - 1 hour - 110 MB

Lock up your tubas and your fairy wrens! In partnership with ANU Meet The Authors series, Chat 10 Looks 3 comes to Canberra for a live recording of the beloved podcast's bumper Christmas episode. Leigh Sales and Annabel Crabb discuss their favourite books, TV shows, movies and recipes from 2017. Make a list of what to read in your Christmas holidays! Note ideas for the perfect gifts! Crabb's rider includes a fully stocked bar and the removal of all pianos from the premises while Sales just w...

Books that Changed Humanity: Daodejing (Tao Te Ching)

May 26, 2017 00:21 - 1 hour - 187 MB

Associate Professor Ben Penny discusses the significance of the Classical Chinese text 'Daodejing' ('Tao Te Ching'). Books that Changed Humanity is a book club with a difference. Each month, the ANU Humanities Research Centre hosts an expert from one of a variety of disciplines, who will introduce and lead the discussion of a major historical text. All of these texts, which are drawn from a variety of cultural traditions, has had a formative influence on society and humanity. The series aims ...

Voter interest hits record low in 2016 - ANU Election Study

December 20, 2016 02:47 - 38 minutes - 52.4 MB

In this podcast, Professor Ian McAllister, Dr Jill Sheppard and Sarah Cameron reveal the results of the latest Australian Election Study live from Parliament House. Spoiler: The 2016 survey shows significant changes of opinion that should act as a wake-up call to the major parties.

The Secret Coldwar with John Blaxland

November 15, 2016 01:06 - 38 minutes - 53 MB

This talk gives an insiders account of Australia's national intelligence organisation as it grappled with continuing espionage from foreign agents and the rise of terrorist attacks on Australian soil during the years of the Fraser and Hawke governments. John Blaxland uncovers behind the scenes stories of the Hilton bombing in Sydney, assassinations of diplomats, the Combe-Ivanov affair, and the new threat from China. It reveals that KGB officers were able to recruit and run agents in Austral...

Professor Leif Wenar on Blood Oil

November 11, 2016 04:42 - 45 minutes - 63 MB

Natural resources are the biggest source of unaccountable power in the world. For decades resource-fuelled authoritarians and extremists have forced endless crises on the West—and the ultimate source of their resource money is consumers, paying at the gas station and the mall. Leif Wenar explores how the ‘resource curse’ threatens the West—and searches for the hidden global rule that puts shoppers into business with today’s most dangerous men. He discovers the same rule that once licensed the...

Conversations across the creek #5

November 09, 2016 23:30 - 43 minutes - 59.2 MB

Evolution was the theme of the fifth in the Conversations Across the Creek series. Our speakers tackled this subject from their differing research viewpoints: the philosophy of biology; phylogenetics and why some things evolve faster than others; the migration of people in the Pacific; and communication in healthcare. This session’s speakers were: Dr Rachael Brown (School of Philosophy; College of Arts and Social Sciences), Dr Rob Lanfear (Research School of Biology; College of Medicine, Bio...

2006 Last Lecture - Professor Chris Reus-Smit

October 20, 2016 01:09 - 37 minutes - 51.5 MB

The inaugural 2006 Last Lecture was given by Professor Chris Reus-Smit. Professor Reus-Smit delivered a fascinating lecture on the topic of 'Sources of Insecurity and Instability in the Contemporary World'. With a long teaching experience and exceptional rapport with students, it is no wonder so many students wanted to hear Professor Reus-Smit speak at the Last Lecture! He self-evidently loves teaching, and gives to his classes the same enthusiasm he has given to his many publications, inclu...

Books that Changed Humanity - On the Origin of Species

October 17, 2016 22:37 - 59 minutes - 82.1 MB

Books that Changed Humanity is a book club with a difference. Each month, the ANU Humanities Research Centre hosts an expert from one of a variety of disciplines, who will introduce and lead the discussion of a major historical text. All of these texts, which are drawn from a variety of cultural traditions, has had a formative influence on society and humanity. The series aims to highlight and revisit those books which have informed the way we understand ourselves, both individually and coll...

Antony Green, ABC Elections Analyst, visits ANU

October 14, 2016 04:12 - 1 hour - 139 MB

ABC elections analyst, Antony Green, spoke at the ANU School of Politics and International Relations on 12 October 2016. In a lively and entertaining with students and staff, he discusses the findings of his analysis of the 2016 Senate Federal election and the implications of the Senate's new voting system. Placing these changes in their historical context, he finds that the new system has worked well and that some of the more surprising results were likely the result of the double dissol...

8th H C Nugget Coombs Lecture - Unhappy anniversaries: what is there to celebrate?

October 11, 2016 02:54 - 46 minutes - 64.3 MB

For the Northern Territory, 2016 is the year of two big anniversaries: the 50th anniversary of the Wave Hill walk-off and the 40th anniversary of the Commonwealth Parliament's passing the Northern Territory Aboriginal Land Rights Act. Next year will also mark the 10th anniversary of the Commonwealth's Northern Territory Emergency Response - the Intervention. What benefits have government policies delivered to Indigenous peoples over those decades? How would Nugget Coombs rate the quality ...

Don Watson - American politics in the time of Trump

September 14, 2016 02:50 - 57 minutes - 78.8 MB

Don Watson joins Professor Bates Gill in conversation to discuss his new Quarterly Essay, 'Enemy Within. American Politics in the Time of Trump' which takes the reader on a journey into the heart of the United States in the year 2016. Watson, with characteristic wit and acuity, places Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in a larger frame. He considers the irresistible pull - for Americans - of American exceptionalism, and asks whether this creed is reaching its limit. He explores...

Anthony Albanese and Karen Middleton in conversation with Alex Sloan

September 12, 2016 23:24 - 56 minutes - 76.9 MB

'Albanese: Telling it Straight' is Karen Middleton's new biography of Anthony Albanese. Through interviews with more than 70 friends, relatives, colleagues, associates and adversaries, and more than 40 interviews with Albanese himself, respected political journalist Karen Middleton has gained unprecedented insight into the man behind the politician; a beloved son brought-up with a strong sense of social justice, a political activist with a firebrand reputation; a charismatic young leader; an ...

Books that Changed Humanity – The Communist Manifesto

September 12, 2016 06:49 - 1 hour - 92.2 MB

Books that Changed Humanity is a book club with a difference. Each month, the ANU Humanities Research Centre hosts an expert from one of a variety of disciplines, who will introduce and lead the discussion of a major historical text. All of these texts, which are drawn from a variety of cultural traditions, has had a formative influence on society and humanity. The series aims to highlight and revisit those books which have informed the way we understand ourselves, both individually and c...

ANU/The Canberra Times meet the author event with Goenawan Mohamad

September 06, 2016 05:59 - 55 minutes - 76.1 MB

Acclaimed Indonesian writer and man of letters, Goenawan Mohamad joins ANU Emeritus Professor James Fox in conversation on Goenawan's new book, In Other Words, a volume of essays edited and translated by Jennifer Lindsay, who also participated in the conversation. In this podcast Jennifer discusses some challenges of selecting and translating Goenawan's essays, written between 1968 to 2014, which demonstrate the breadth of his perceptive and elegant commentary on literature, faith, mytholog...

Inaugural PhB (Bachelor of Philosophy) symposium

September 06, 2016 05:58 - 1 hour - 103 MB

Introduction by Boyd Hunter (PhB Convenor, CASS) Launching the 2016 PhB Symposium—Professor Brian Schmidt (Vice Chancellor, ANU) Ten PhB Student Presentations (in order) 1. Possibilities for innovative Native Title mapping—Mia Sandgren (PhB CASS) 2. How can playing ‘molecular Lego’ help us to understand the malaria parasite?—Lachlan Arthur (PhB Science) 3. Diagnosing Bottled Stars—Adrian Hindes (PhB Science) 4. Chemical Keyrings—Todd Harris (PhB Science) 5. Digital disruption in the academ...

Big questions in biology: Australia’s biodiversity, its past, present and future

September 05, 2016 06:49 - 1 hour - 115 MB

In this discussion forum, four internationally recognised researchers will present their own research on different aspects of Australian biodiversity. They will look back at historical evidence to show how Australian plants and animals evolved and what factors have influenced them. By analysing the variety of animals and plants in Australia today, the researchers will propose ways they can be managed, protected and used effectively. The presenters then come together in a panel moderated by...

ANU/Canberra times meet the author event with Justin Cronin

September 05, 2016 06:49 - 1 hour - 86.2 MB

Bestselling American author Justin Cronin - in his only Canberra appearance between the Melbourne and Brisbane Writers Festival - discusses his life and books with Colin Steele, particularly his recently completed post-apocalyptic Passage trilogy. The Weekend Australian has commented that the trilogy,The Passage (2010), The Twelve(2012) and The City of Mirrors (2016), is "part dystopian essay, FBI procedural, vampire saga and military novel. There are echoes of John Steinbeck, Cormac McCarth...

ANU/The Canberra Times meet the author event with Peter Stefanovic

September 05, 2016 06:48 - 59 minutes - 81.3 MB

Peter is joined in conversation by Jack Waterford AM, former Editor-at-large at The Canberra Times to discuss his new book Hack in a Flak Jacket. Hack in a Flak Jacket is a startlingly honest account of experiencing war and terrorism from the frontline by Peter Stefanovic, one of Australia's leading journalists and foreign correspondents. For almost ten years Peter Stefanovic was Channel 9's foreign correspondent in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. During that time he witnessed more than ...

Conversations Across the Creek #4

August 29, 2016 23:54 - 45 minutes - 63 MB

The fourth in the Conversations Across the Creek series was a lively discussion about ethical issues with various technologies such as drones used in warfare, Artificial Intelligence, the benefits and concerns with police body cameras, and machine learning. This session’s speakers were: Dr Adam Henschke (National Security College; College of Asia & Pacific), Professor Marcus Hutter (Research School of Computer Science), Dr Emmeline Taylor (School of Sociology; College of Arts and Social Scie...

Books that Changed Humanity - The Ramayana

August 16, 2016 00:38 - 1 hour - 94.3 MB

Books that Changed Humanity is a book club with a difference. Each month, the ANU Humanities Research Centre hosts an expert from one of a variety of disciplines, who will introduce and lead the discussion of a major historical text. All of these texts, which are drawn from a variety of cultural traditions, has had a formative influence on society and humanity. The series aims to highlight and revisit those books which have informed the way we understand ourselves, both individually and c...

2016 John Passmore Lecture – Changing visions of an egalitarian society

August 04, 2016 05:13 - 58 minutes - 80 MB

The 2016 John Passmore Lecture for the ANU School of Philosophy By Professor Elizabeth Anderson, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan How should a society of equals be organized? Egalitarians themselves have been divided among three visions: individualism, small-scale communalist or cooperativist systems, and large-scale collectivism. In this podcast, Professor Elizabeth Anderson examin...

Emeritus Faculty Annual Lecture 2016: Understanding the value of arts and culture

August 04, 2016 05:13 - 49 minutes - 67.7 MB

Delivered by Professor Geoffrey Crossick, Director of the United Kingdom’s Arts and Humanities Research Council's Cultural Value Project and author, with Patrycja Kaszynska, of the major 2016 Report: Understanding the Value of Arts & Culture. This talk highlights the diverse contexts of the value of culture and how the digital landscape is playing an increasingly larger role in shaping people’s engagement with arts and culture. Crossick asks: How should we understand the difference that arts...

2016 Jack Smart Memorial Lecture – Cognition as a social skill

August 04, 2016 05:13 - 1 hour - 159 MB

Most contemporary social epistemology takes as its starting point individuals with sophisticated propositional attitudes and considers (i) how those individuals depend on each other to gain (or lose) knowledge through testimony, disagreement, and the like and (ii) if, in addition to individual knowers, it is possible for groups to have knowledge. In this podcast, Professor Sally Haslanger argues that social epistemology should be more attentive to the construction of knowers through social...

Richard Fidler in conversation with Alex Sloan

August 04, 2016 01:09 - 1 hour - 82.7 MB

Richard Fidler joins ABC 666 Canberra's Alex Sloan in conversation to discuss his new book, Ghost Empire, his popular ABC radio series, Conversations with Richard Fidler, and the Doug Anthony All Stars. Recorded on 28 July 2016 at University House.

The Vote: 2016 Federal Election Series - Pre-election analysis

June 30, 2016 00:23 - 57 minutes - 79.2 MB

In this animated political discussion some of the University's most renowned public policy experts provide a final analysis of the election campaign prior to polling day. Panellists Professor John Hewson Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy Adjunct Professor Bob McMullan Crawford School of Public Policy Dr Jill Sheppard ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods Star of 'Off the Hill', the University's weekly 2016 election wrap up Dr Andrew Hughes Resear...

The Vote: 2016 Federal Election Series - Climate Change, Energy and the Environment

June 28, 2016 04:24 - 1 hour - 93 MB

ANU is a leading centre for the study of climate change, energy change and the environment. In this event ANU experts discuss how these issues are being presented during the election. Panellists: Professor Ken Baldwin Director, Energy Change Institute, ANU Professor Mark Howden Director, Climate Change Institute, ANU Dr Paul Burke Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU Lily Dempster Climate Campaigner and ANU student Mark Kenny - moderator Chief Political Correspondent, Fairfax Media T...

The periodical enlightenment & romantic literature

June 28, 2016 04:07 - 48 minutes - 67.2 MB

The ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences' Second Professoriate Lecture of 2016 - The periodical enlightenment & romantic literature The opening decades of the nineteenth century, which we know as the Age of Romanticism in Britain, was also the great age of periodical literature – The Periodical Enlightenment – at the centre of which were the Edinburgh Review (est. 1802), the Quarterly Review (1809), Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (or Maga) (1817), and the Westminster Review (1824), each o...

After Stella: taking stock of gender and literature in Australia

June 16, 2016 00:43 - 1 hour - 94.8 MB

The past five years have seen a concerted attempt by feminists in the literary world to reveal and shift gender bias in reviewing, awards and publishing. This discussion brings figures from across the literary landscape - writers’ festivals, publishing, reviewing, and academia - to discuss what this literary activism has achieved, and what is left to do. Is the gendering of literature in Australia changing, and why? Speakers: • Dr Julieanne Lamond, lecturer, School of Literature Languages &...

The Vote: 2016 Federal Election Series - Health

June 15, 2016 03:32 - 59 minutes - 81.3 MB

Health policy is at the core of the 2016 Federal Election, regularly ranked as the issue most important to voters. In this event, ANU health policy experts discuss where the parties stand and what's missing from the debate. Panellists: Professor Sharon Friel Director, RegNet, ANU Professor Art Sedrakyan Department of Health Services Research and Policy, Research School of Population Health, ANU Professor Adrian Kay Director of National Professional Development, Crawford School of Public ...

Public lecture by UN Privacy Rapporteur, Joe Cannataci

June 14, 2016 23:56 - 1 hour - 97.3 MB

The human right to privacy raises global policy, legal and political challenges in the information age. Issues such as data retention, data breaches and the interaction between public security versus private autonomy, are all creating a diversity of public debates in Australia and around the world. In 2015 the UN Human Rights Council responded to these challenges with the appointment of the first Rapporteur for Privacy; Professor Joseph (Joe) Cannataci. His appointment is a significant globa...

The Vote: 2016 Federal Election Series - Social Policy

June 08, 2016 04:07 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MB

In this event some of the social policy issues most important to voters will be discussed by an experienced group of policy makers and researchers. Panellists: Professor Matt Gray Director, ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods Professor Peter Whiteford Crawford School of Public Policy Sue Regan Crawford School of Public Policy Associate Professor Sharon Bessell Crawford School of Public Policy Moderated by 666 ABC Canberra's Genevieve Jacobs The Vote: 2016 Federal Election Series...

The Vote: 2016 Federal Election Series - Tax and the Economy

June 01, 2016 01:19 - 58 minutes - 108 MB

Some of the University's most respected economic experts discuss the key tax and economic issues during the 2016 election campaign. Spoiler alert: there's slightly more to the Australian budget predicament than 'jobs and growth'. Panellists: Professor Miranda Stewart Director, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute Associate Professor Maria Racionero Research School of Economics, ANU Dr John Hewson Professor, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU Leader o...

The Vote: 2016 Federal Election Series - Security and Foreign Affairs

May 25, 2016 05:28 - 1 hour - 83.8 MB

Three of the University's leading security and foreign affairs experts look at how the 2016 election might change the way Australia deals with the rest of the world. Panellists: Professor Rory Medcalf Director, National Security College, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific Professor Michael Wesley Director, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific Dr Jill Sheppard Political scientist and survey researcher in the Au...

Conversations Across the Creek #3

May 24, 2016 04:07 - 36 minutes - 50.4 MB

The third in the Conversations Across the Creek series was a lively discussion about neuroscience, the dangerous ideas and influences when performing Shakespearean plays in 19th century Australia, battles between invaders and hosts in bacteria, and the analysis and scalability of history and music. This session’s speakers were: Professor Greg Stuart (Head of the Eccles Institute of Neuroscience at the John Curtin School of Medical Research), Dr Kate Flaherty (School of Literature, Languages...

Balancing the books? Post-budget policy analysis

May 24, 2016 00:47 - 1 hour - 117 MB

This diverse group of panel members from academia, public policy and the media offer their thoughts on the 2016 budget, particularly in the context of what needs to be done both to prepare Australia to deal with the current domestic and global environments and for the medium term future. Convened by Mr Steve Sedgwick AO Deputy Chair, Sir Roland Wilson Foundation, Former Australian Public Service Commissioner Speakers Ms Michelle Grattan AO Chief Political Correspondent at The Conversation ...

Lining up the ducks: a rare insight into how impossible policies become possible

May 23, 2016 00:57 - 1 hour - 111 MB

Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt, Professor Bruce Chapman and Dr Ken Henry reflect on their experiences of how power, politics and personality have influenced the ability to introduce innovative policy both here in Australia and in the UK. Using examples such as the policy response to the Global Financial Crisis, the Higher Education Contribution Scheme and the UK’s Congestion Charge, they explore what did and didn’t work in these contexts, the personalities involved and what lessons can be drawn for...

US Middle East Policy under President Obama and his successor

May 12, 2016 06:59 - 49 minutes - 68.6 MB

There is a widespread view among analysts and policy makers in the Middle East region and beyond that President Barack Obama’s handling of the oil-rich but volatile Middle East has not been deft. His policy actions or lack of them have contributed to regional instability, and disillusioned some of America’s traditional Arab allies, most importantly Saudi Arabia. President Obama has been criticized for not containing the influence of Saudi Arabia’s regional rival, the Islamic Republic of Iran...

The Vote: 2016 Federal Election Series - Policy, Politics and Predictions

May 11, 2016 00:51 - 59 minutes - 81.8 MB

The Vote: 2016 Federal Election Series, presented in partnership with Policy Forum.net, is an opportunity to engage with ANU public policy experts during the 2016 Federal Election. In this podcast, three ANU public policy experts offer a no holds barred overview of the election, looking at the policy, politics and predictions ahead of us for the next eight weeks. Panellists include: - Quentin Grafton, Professor of Economics, ANU Crawford School of Public Policy, and Editor-in-Chief of Poli...

Eat, drink and be artistic with Ken Done

May 02, 2016 06:14 - 1 hour - 91.9 MB

Iconic Australian, Ken Done talks about his new book, A Life Coloured In, an exuberant memoir by one of Australia's best-loved artists. Ken Done has an extraordinary place in the hearts of Australians - many of whom have worn or decorated homes with his artwork. Taylor Swift was given a specially commissioned Ken Done artwork to commemorate her December 2015 Australian tour. Done donated his fee to UNICEF Australia, for which he is a Goodwill Ambassador. Done's vivid, optimistic images are ...

The cyber security challenges posed by Generations Y and Z

May 02, 2016 05:56 - 42 minutes - 58.2 MB

This presentation looks at the unique characteristics of Generations Y and Z, and the implications of these characteristics for society and organisational security. The presentation also looks at the role of these two generations in terrorist groups. Professor Clive Williams MG is an Honorary Professor at the ANU Centre for Military Security and Law, and a Visiting Fellow at the ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. He has a career background in intelligence and security.