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Analysis & Opinion - In the media

Our academics regularly provide analysis, opinion and commentary in the media.

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PM urged to hedge bets by boosting defence spending
A/Prof Andrew Carr speaks to AAP

Fears disinformation around conflicts in the Middle East will create tensions in the Pacific.
Dr Anouk Ride speaks in Pacific Beat

Hard New World: Hugh White AO In-Conversation with Misha Ketchell
Em Prof Hugh White speaks to Hawke Centre

Accurate electoral map needed
Dr Thiago Cintra Opperman speaks to The National (PNG)

Artificial General Intelligence
Xueyin Zha speaks to ABC: Behind the News

America First? Why MAGA is split on the US strikes on Iran
Prof Wes Widmaier speaks to SBS

'Unmitigated disaster': What Donald Trump could be weighing up on Iran
Prof Wes Widmaier speaks to SBS News

Pacific People first: the critical role of education
Dr Meg Keen writes in Development Policy Blog

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Caitlin Bickerton 2023. Photo: Olivia Wenholz
Caitlin Bickerton 2023. Photo: Olivia Wenholz

Estonia as cyber-security leaders — new internship for Bell School students
Caitlin Bickerton won the inaugural internship to travel to Estonia to spend five weeks working in the Estonian Foreign Ministry and attending the Tallinn Cyber Summer School and Cyber Conference.
  • Diplomacy
  • Cyber and technology
Prof Anthony Regan

Celebrating academic excellence: CAP's Professorial Lecture Series
The College honours and celebrates the outstanding achievements of our academics in a series of inspiring lectures.
Student Sai Hossain looking at camera wearing an ANU shirt
Sai Hossain

Sai's academic journey: A dual degree pursuit across countries
Motivated by his passion for cultures, politics and government, Sai took advantage of our unique dual degree program to travel from Japan to gain two bachelor’s degrees over just four years.
SDSC PhD Scholars

Tokyo trip for two SDSC PhD scholars
Attending the ISA A-P conference in Tokyo was a dream come true for PhD candidates Paul Chamberlain and Dongkeun Lee, and a perfect fit with their thesis topics.
Children on the street image by Bernard Spragg.NG on Flickr
Image by Bernard Spragg.NG on Flickr

Southeast Asia Institute Student Essay Prize 2023
The Inaugural Southeast Asia Institute Student Essay Prize 2023 recognises the best academic essay by an undergraduate, Honours or Masters student from any discipline at the ANU.
  • ASEAN
Three people standing in graduation robes and hats
Graduates celebrating at Ritsumeikan University, Japan

CAP celebrates graduation ceremony at Ritsumeikan University for dual degree program
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific and Ritsumeikan University celebrate the graduating students from their unique undergraduate dual degree program.
  • Asia
  • Pacific
  • Student
Yoshihiro Komori
Yoshihiro Komori

Yoshihiro Komori - step out of your comfort zone on exchange and internships
Coming from Japan to Canberra on exchange, as part of a dual degree, and taking on an internship at AIIA opened up a world of interests and future options for Yoshihiro Komori.
  • International relations
  • International organisations
The photos of three women spliced together, side by side. Maria Tanyag, Siobhan McDonnell and Sofia Samper Carro
DECRA winners, left to right: Maria Tanyag, Siobhan McDonnell and Sofia Samper Carro

Outstanding CAP researchers win DECRA funding
Exceptional academics from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific win lucrative early career research funding to support their significant projects.
  • Academic
  • Archaeology
  • Asia
  • Pacific
  • Public policy
  • International relations

Past events
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Thu, 27 Mar 2025

Smuggling the Border in: rethinking the borderspace in a new cooperation landscape

The recent reconfiguration of international cooperation agreements derived from the suspension of US aid programs, coincided with the launch of a series of drastic anti-immigrant measures by the US
Thu, 27 Mar 2025

Compound exposure in the Pacific: how our solution to climate change could make things worse

Episode 18 of the Saving the World webinar series features Associate Professor Nick Bainton and Dr Éléonore Lèbre.
Wed, 26 Mar 2025

Pacific Institute Talanga Dialogue: with Professor Martins Paparinskis

Please note that due to unforeseen circumstances, this Roundtable will be combined with the ANU Law School Seminar at 12.30pm AEDT virtually. 
Wed, 26 Mar - Thu, 27 Mar 2025

Violence, Displacement, Protection Workshop

A multi-disciplinary workshop about extreme vulnerability in situations of forced migration and humanitarian response
Wed, 26 Mar 2025

Exhibition Opening: Towards Alternative Humanitarian Visuals?

We know that humanitarian images often foreground suffering.
Tue, 25 Mar 2025

Welcome to Kawthoolei: Rethinking Rebel Governance as Bricolage

Department of Political and Social Change Seminar Series
Tue, 25 Mar 2025

Conflict-related sexual violence in Myanmar: The role of the state

ANU Myanmar Research Centre Dialogue Series 2025

Timezone: 5.30–6.30pm AEDT, 1–2pm MMT, 8.30-9.30am CEST 
Tue, 18 Mar 2025

Reverting to the Norm: Locating the Parliament in Indonesias Democratic Regression

Department of Political and Social Change Seminar Series 
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