The Unsentimental Nation? Early Commemoration of the Australian Commonwealth
Seminar
Scholars have disagreed about the degree of sentiment that propelled the creation of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. Was Federation a cynical deal designed to further the economic interests of the wealthy and privileged, at the expense of the working classes, women, Indigneous people and…
Committing to the unknown: panel discussion on investment in novel irrigation infrastructure
Panel discussion
Organised by the Institute for Water Futures, Fenner School of Environment & Society, ANU Centre for European Studies, and the Water Policy Innovation Hub Jean Monnet project. Decisions to invest in new irrigation infrastructure are made in the face of substantial uncertainty around costs,…
Spousal difference in education and marital dissolution among transnational couples in South Korea 2020
Seminar
Cross-border marriages in Korea and Asian countries appear to differ widely from those in other part of the world. One of the distinctive features is that spousal difference in education is substantial among transnational couples, and another is that their marriages are less secure and of short…
Smooth Constrained Mortality Forecasting
Seminar
Mortality can be forecast by means of parametric models, principal component methods, and smoothing approaches. These methods either impose rigid modelling structures or produce implausible outcomes. During the talk we propose a novel approach for forecasting mortality that combines a well…
Launch cross-campus network 'History and Legacies of Violence'
Other
You are invited to attend the launch of the new cross-campus network on the History and Legacies of Violence. This cross-campus initiative is funded by a grant from the Research School of Social Sciences. However, the aim of the network is to connect scholars working across the university -…
Small area estimation of prevalence of diarrhoea among under-five children in Bangladesh by combining health survey and census data
Seminar
The demand for small (local-level) area statistics has increased tremendously, particularly in countries where a decentralised approach to governance and service provision has been adopted. However, most of these countries lack local-level statistics to aid policy decisions and planning. Sample…
In Conversation with Blanche d’Alpuget and Frank Bongiorno
Other
ANU/CANBERRA TIMES MEET THE AUTHOR Blanche d'Alpuget will be in conversation with Frank Bongiorno on Blanche's new book Bob Hawke: The Complete Biography. To mark Bob Hawke's extraordinary life and legacy, this master work brings together the story of Bob Hawke in full in a definitive hardback…