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Anthony Albanese lands in Indonesia for first trip abroad since election win
Prof Marcus Mietzner speaks to ABC News

Pacific Islands focus: Albanese must now deliver decisive action on climate change and development
Isabelle Zhu-Maguire writes for Croakey Health Media

Albanese set to land in a changed and changing Indonesia
EmProf Greg Fealy speaks to The Age

'Can't defend Australia with bureaucrats': Defence staff surge as recruits decline
Dr Andrew Carr speaks to Canberra Times

New office for Vanuatu golden visas in Phuket puts citizenship-for-sale risks in spotlight
Dr Henrietta McNeill is quoted in South China Morning Post

US Defense Secretary cancels Women, Peace and Security programs
Susan Hutchinson writing for The Strategist ASPI

Paul Dibb, architect of Australia defence policy, issues grim warning on China and Russia amid Trump chaos
EmProf Paul Dibb speaks with The Nightly

Why Zelensky – not Trump – may have ‘won’ the US-Ukraine minerals deal
Eve Warburton writes for The Conversation

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PhD student Aryana Mohmood
PhD student Aryana Mohmood

Meet Aryana Mohmood, the PhD student investigating Afghan women’s representations and resistance.
PhD scholar and Afghan-Australian journalist Aryana Mohmood wants to change perceptions of diverse Afghan women from victimhood to resistance.
  • Human Rights
Nikolay Murashkin. Photo: Olivia Wenholz
Nikolay Murashkin. Photo: Olivia Wenholz

Expanding our teaching team in Japan
Meet Nikolay Murashkin, our new lecturer who has joined the team in Osaka, Japan, teaching in our dual degree program with Ritsumeikan University.
  • Japan
Prof Helen Sullivan, Dean of ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, delivers her opening remarks
Prof Helen Sullivan, Dean of ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, delivers her opening remarks

Towards a Different IR? ANU Department of IR celebrates 75th anniversary
Responsibilities towards oppressed peoples, the relationship between order and crisis, and a focus on emerging voices and the Asia-Pacific permeated discussions at the ANU IR Department’s 75th anniver
  • International relations
Protesters block access to the parliament building in Jakarta on 22 August to protest a move to reverse the Constitutional Court decision altering eligibility rules for candidates in a key election later this year (Bay Ismoyo/AFP via Getty Images)
Protesters block access to the parliament building in Jakarta on 22 August to protest a move to reverse the Constitutional Court decision altering eligibility rules for candidates in a key election later this year (Bay Ismoyo/AFP via Getty Images)

Prabowo’s capitulation in Constitutional Court crisis only a partial victory
An apparent win for civil society masks elite political manoeuvring as Indonesia’s local elections loom.
Denghua Zhang

Denghua Zhang's article promoted by Oxford University Press as 'High Impact Political Science and International Relations Research'
Denghua Zhang's article promoted by Oxford University Press as 'High Impact Political Science and International Relations Research'
Women with traditional hats working at village by Phuong

Southeast Asia Institute Student Essay Prize 2024
The Southeast Asia Institute Student Essay Prize 2024 recognises the best academic essay by an undergraduate, Honours or Masters student from any discipline at ANU.
Opening Ceremony with Keynote Speaker Tahlea Aualiitia and Ngunnawal Elder, Aunty Serena Williams. Photo Credit: Luka Vertessy

Confluence and Creation in Asia and the Pacific: Asia Pacific Week 2024
A semester’s worth of hard work went by in a blur as 60 conference delegates brought their own brand of warmth and enthusiasm to a chilly ANU campus in June.
DPA Graduation

Congratulations to DPA graduates!
DPA’s new HDR graduates in July 2024

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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 
Wed, 12 Mar 2025

The Prabowo Presidency: An early assessment

Indonesia’s new president, Prabowo Subianto, has been in office for a little over four months now.
Wed, 5 Mar 2025

Reimagining the International Rules Based Order from a Blue Pacific Perspective

Join Sione Tekiteki and Joel Nilon as they examine the Blue Pacific's role in the future of the international rules based order.
Tue, 4 Mar 2025

Repositioning the Bamar identity in the context of establishing a Bamar state

ANU Myanmar Research Centre Dialogue Series 2025

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

VENUE:
Tue, 4 Mar 2025

Voices of the Future: Young Women Shaping the AUKUS Discourse

In anticipation of the release of the Women in Strategic Policy (WISP) program’s first policy paper and ahead of International Women’s Day, WI

Tue, 25 Feb 2025

The Great Disorientation

What happens when humanity’s progress accelerates beyond its capacity to adapt?
Thu, 20 Feb 2025

Pathways to a wellbeing-centred economy

Episode 17 of the Saving the World webinar series features Dr Sabrina Chakori, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at CSIRO.
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