The demographic consequences of migration to, from and within Australia
Seminar
This presentation focuses on recent efforts to create a complete, consistent and detailed account of population change in Australia for assessing the specific contributions of migration and for studying the dynamic population movements that produced them. With increasing trends in life expectancy…
Disruption in First Nations Education
Seminar
Abstract Education is often described as the single most important key in turning around social disadvantage and economic marginalisation as well as in bolstering cultural affirmation and environmental care. And yet, do current policy settings in education meet the needs and aspirations of…
Indigenous-led verification of environmental, social and cultural outcomes of carbon farming.
Seminar
Abstract Carbon farming is an opportunity for on-going ‘untied’ income for Indigenous communities. The Australian Government through the Emissions Solution Fund buys Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCU) for ‘lowest cost abatement’. If carbon farming demonstrates environmental, social and…
Indigenous Affairs in a social media age: Q&A session with Luke Pearson on IndigenousX
Seminar
Indigenous Affairs in a social media age: Q&A session with Luke Pearson on IndigenousX Policy making is changing in the social media age, and perhaps nowhere more so than in Indigenous Affairs. Social media has empowered a diverse range of Indigenous people to have a voice in policy issues,…
Afghanistan in 2019: Diplomatic perspectives & strategic constraints
Seminar
Afghanistan’s contested power structures have vexed policymakers and scholars under a backdrop of retrospective overextension of US power. In a post-US led world order, the normative means of negotiating Afghanistan’s future have seen greater plurality both internally and externally. Internally,…
Crown-Indigenous Relations in Canada: Advancing Reconciliation, Recognizing Rights, and Respecting Indigenous Self-Determination
Seminar
ABSTRACT: Diverse Indigenous Peoples have lived in what is now known as Canada for untold millennia. Since at least the early 17th century, they have been living alongside European colonizers, settlers, their descendants, and eventually new Canadians from all over the world. What began as a series…
Launch event: Latin America in Australia Policy Briefings
Seminar
Latin America in Australia: Policy Briefings Launch This Policy Briefings series outline the dynamics of migration, integration and identity for 14 Latin American countries and is the product of a unique research collaboration between ANU and the Embassies of Latin America, supported by funding…