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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
The Victorian Government should review its environmental assessment process to avoid repeats of the drawn-out and disappointing Port Phillip Channel Deepening Project process with future projects, according to an academic from ANU.
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Australian scientists have discovered the oldest evidence of live birth on the planet, thanks to a fossil fish from Western Australia with a well-preserved embryo inside the body cavity.
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
GPs are not an integral part of Australian influenza planning, despite the important role they will play in limiting deaths in the event of a pandemic hitting the country, according to research from The Australian National University.
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Climate change and land management practices could be affecting the total amount of groundwater and surface water in the Hunter Valley, and also increasing levels of salinity.
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
ANU astronomers have found there is nothing special about the Sun after conducting the most comprehensive comparison of it with other stars – adding weight to the idea that life could be common in the universe.
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Airlines and their passengers should foot the bill for offset programs to counter spiralling international aviation carbon dioxide emissions, according to an academic from The Australian National University.
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
The Australian National University and the University of South Australia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that builds on the Federal Government’s collaborative approach for strengthening Australia’s higher education sector.
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Australia’s long-hours culture is much more likely to disadvantage the careers and wellbeing of mothers than fathers because of persistent inequalities around how family time commitments are shared, new research from ANU suggests.
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Over the next four months an ANU student will aim to meet with more than 4,000 young people in around 400 towns throughout Australia before taking their concerns all the way to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
With Fair Trade Fortnight underway an academic from ANU is asking the government to give Fair Trade a fair go by investing part of the country’s aid budget in the Fair Trade market to harness its contribution to regional capacity building and development.
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Governments and other large organisations should put more resources into ways of dealing with the unknown, according to experts pioneering a new approach to understanding and managing uncertainty.
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
The 20th anniversary of new Parliament House in Canberra should be a time to celebrate the diverse heritage of the people who helped create the Aussie icon, according to the musician tasked with capturing the spirit of its construction.
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Only a major global economic slowdown, international conflict or the emergence of new emission-saving technology can prevent worldwide aviation emissions rising up to 144 per cent higher than current levels within 20 years, according to the authors of a report from The Australian National University.
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
John Howard and the Coalition made elementary marketing mistakes that cost them the chance to win last year’s election – something they wouldn’t have done if they’d followed the lesson of the Toyota Corolla and reinvented Howard for consumers, according to marketing researchers at The Australian National University.
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ANU and UniSA collaboration to build national capacity