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Innovation is about much more than taking Australian inventions to market. Australia needs to capture opportunities in the global innovation system, and adopt and adapt innovations from elsewhere.
What are these opportunities? How well is Australia exploiting them at present? What should policymakers do differently to assist in these endeavours?
In this forum, presented by HC Coombs Policy Forum at the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy, an expert panel explores the policy challenges in expl
5.4.3 How to evaluate accessibility Accessibility guidelines and checklists can be used to evaluate a design or prototype. Despite the difficulties associated with the use of guidelines, they can be a useful tool for getting general insight into the accessibility of a website or system. As we discussed earlier, the main limitation of the use of guidelines or checklists is the fact that background knowledge of disability and assistive technology is required in order to effectively interpret and apply such guidelines. Once
Interview with Andrew Goudie, Master of St Cross College
Author of more than 30 books on global warming, Andrew Goudie charts the way forward in present crisis and explains how university research and advice can contribute to solving the problems that face our planet.
The Week in Review: February 13, 2016 Janet Yellen testified before Congress this week and was forced to admit the obvious: the economy is in trouble and could get worse. While Ms. Yellen indicated the potential to a return to ZIRP, she seemed reluctant to follow the advice of her predecessor and other former Fed officials in embracing negative interest rates as her colleagues in Europe and Japan have done. As anger builds at the arrogance of central bankers, it’s becoming ever clearer that there is no plan for monetar
The Mabo Case: Its Significance for Australia and the World
A judicial revolution occurred in 1992 when the High Court discarded
the doctrine of terra nullius in the Mabo case. The ruling had
repercussions for Indigenous peoples within Australia and around the
world, especially in Canada, New Zealand, and the United States.
In this lecture presented by the Centre for Aboriginal Economic
Policy Research (CAEPR), ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences,
Professor Peter Russell considers the background and consequences of
the Mabo case, contextualising
The Problem of Human Remains in the Anzac Battlefield, Gallipoli
During several visits to the Anzac Battlefield at Gallipoli, Turkey, since 2003, Dr Peter Dowling has located human remains exposed in areas of high tourist activity laying on road banks and verges which follow the lines of Allied and Turkish frontline trenches. These remains are in constant danger of being further disturbed or destroyed by the actions of roadworks, coaches and tourist activites. Despite National Trust representations to government authorities to initiate a conservation strategy
The Missing Dimension of Stateness
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
Kicking the Bastards Out?
Advocates of reform want to subject their representatives to constant
scrutiny, allowing voters to judge every word spoken, coalition joined,
and compromise approved. Professor Jane Mansbridge believes that this
approach to reform is misguided. She argues that a better strategy is
to allow more discretion in office and concentrate on three goals: one,
select better legislators to begin with; two, communicate with both
legislators and bureaucrats in settings where they have a strong
inc
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Today
HRH Prince Turki AlFaisal is Chairman of the Board of the King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh.
He is one of Saudi Arabia's leading intellectuals, with a very rich record of public service. A graduate of Georgetown University in Washington DC, Prince Turki was appointed as an Advisor to the Royal Court in 1973 and subsequently served as the Director of the General Intelligence Directorate (GID) from 1977 to 2001. In 2002, Prince Turki was appointed Ambassador
Multiple Sclerosis - Cranial Nerves Exam - Trigeminal (CN V) Sub-exam - Patient 16
Shelly is a 38-year-old African American female who initially presented with transverse myelitis 2 years ago. A lumbar puncture revealed multiple oligoclonal bands in the cerebral spinal fluid. MRI has demonstrated numerous plaques in the bilateral cerebral white matter. She eventually went on to recover from her initial attack but since her second attack has continued to progressively worsen. Her gait and other motor functioning have deteriorated and she is now wheelchair bound.
2008 K R Narayanan Oration Why Environmentalism Needs Equity
"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 sus
Artful Science: Rethinking how the young learn
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 to the ways in which children learn to discern, appreciate, and take part in forms of artful representation. Anthropologists have given only slightly more attention to the extent to which children and young people learn key science concepts and representational modes in their own cultural settings. Th
Around 1919 & in Mexico City
Mexico furnished the era of social and cultural change that started ‘right around 1910’ with its first popular revolution. By 1919 Mexico City had become a refuge for the world’s radicals. To a despairing world, it offered a unique site to safely experiment with all sorts of enchantments.
In this culturally promiscuous capital not only the meaning of Mexico was at stake, but also the meanings of major modernist concepts –revolution, the popular, avant-garde, authenticity,
Closing the Gaps in Indigenous Mortality & Housing: Perspectives from the Social Sciences
In delivering an apology to the Stolen Generations the Prime
Minister set a concrete target to halve the gap in infant mortality
rates between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children within a decade.
Related to this is a subsequent declared need to improve housing
conditions for Indigenous Australians with the establishment of a
housing policy commission as the first step. In this forum, leading
academics discuss the scale and nature of the issues facing the new
government as it attempts to achie
Must Climate Change End The Platinum Age
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
Such a Long Journey: India’s Opening of its Capital Account
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
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At least one dead in Kabul attack
A suicide bomber rams a vehicle laden with explosives into a Turkish embassy car in the Afghan capital Kabul, killing at least one.
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Volkswagen: Requiem for a Dream?
Crisis management is only the first step for Volkswagen. Whether or not the company bounces back depends on its ability to change its culture.
Students Unveil Solar-Powered, Zero-Energy Home
The Clemson University Solar Decathlon team revealed its innovative home design at the South Carolina Botanical Garden. Their home, “Indigo Pine East,†will be recreated as “Indigo Pine West†in Irvine, CA during the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2015 in October.
