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Contemporary and Future Challenges for Structured Democratic Dialogue
1 Introduction Across policy, education and organizational life, many of the most consequential problems are no longer primarily technical. They are ‘problématiques’ (Özbekhan 1970a), 'polycrises' (Morin and Kern 1993) or ‘wicked problems’ (Rittel and Webber 1973), where facts are contested, values diverge, responsibilities are distributed and interdependencies create unintended consequences.
Organizational mechanisms in digital public health transformation: change communication, collective sensemaking, and cross-functional collaboration
Abstract Introduction: Digital public health transformation extends beyond technology deployment and requires organizational processes that align interpretation, coordination, governance, and population-health goals. Existing research examines change communication, collective sensemaking, and cross-functional collaboration separately, with limited integration of their boundaries, recursive interactions, cross-level transmission, and multilevel outcomes.
Health-stratified community care needs and need-availability mismatch among urban older adults in China: a latent class analysis along the frailty-disability continuum
Background China’s community care system is expanding rapidly under the “9073” framework, yet service allocation remains anchored to chronological age rather than to functional heterogeneity. Frailty and disability are typically measured as separate constructs, and unmet community care needs are rarely examined across empirically derived health strata.
Evaluating the acceptability of a portable handwashing intervention (the Spatap) in three Fijian communities, a mixed-methods study
Background Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions in resource-constrained communities can improve health outcomes, but uptake and sustainability are influenced by acceptability. We evaluated the acceptability of the Spatap, a portable silicone tap attached to a bottle, as a household handwashing intervention in Fijian communities.
Renovating Neural Networks With Viral‐Mediated Gene Transfer From A Tissue Contacting Matrix Mimic
1 Introduction Many neurodegenerative diseases are incurable and compounded by limited treatment options. This problem is particularly acute for neurological conditions, often leading to progressive decline in cognitive and/or motor functions [1-4]. For a number of neurodegenerative diseases growth factors, such as glial-cell-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), have been shown to be beneficial for protecting neurons and promoting plasticity [5-7].
ANU Workshop: Lego® Serious Play™
As we approach the end of 2025, it’s the perfect time to pause, reflect on what we’ve achieved, and prepare for what’s next. The ANU College of Business and Economics invites you to an End-of-Year Review Workshop using LEGO® Serious Play (LSP) – an interactive and creative way to align teams, set clear goals, and shape strategies for the year ahead. Why LSP? LSP isn’t just play – it’s purposeful reflection and forward planning. 2025 outcomes: explore successes, challenges and lessons learned.
Experimental Evidence for Photosynthetic Dependency of Phloem Sap Generation in Minor Veins
Attracting manufacturing firms to South Australia: The case of Philips in Hendon, 1946-1980
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Global Change Biology | Environmental Change Journal | Wiley Online Library
1 Introduction Decarbonisation involves the reduction of fossil greenhouse gas emissions and increasing carbon sequestration through sinks. To limit global warming to 2°C, the IPCC projects that the land-use and energy sectors should shift from being net carbon emitters to sinks, while CH4 and N2O emissions reduce (IPCC 2023).
Advancing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Treatment
While Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) remains the gold standard for treating PTSD, up to half of individuals do not experience adequate relief. Why is that and what can be done? Join Professor Richard Bryant for a compelling and thought-provoking presentation that explores the critical next steps in treating PTSD.
How to Make a Difference: In conversation with Dr Suzanne Packer AO
Join us at The Jane Dahlstrom Annual Lecture 2025 to be inspired by Dr Sue Packer AO – A Voice for Children By ANU College of Science and Medicine ANU Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) Auditorium 146 Ellery Crescent Acton, ACT 2601 Australia About this event Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes Join renowned paediatrician and child advocate Dr Sue Packer AO as she shares powerful insights from over 50 years of championing children’s rights and wellbeing in this public lecture.
Coarse Woody Debris Improves Nutrient Cycling in a Rehabilitated Montane Forest
1 Introduction Forest restoration schemes often prioritise the recovery of above-ground vegetation communities. However, the development of below-ground functions, like decomposition and nutrient cycling, is essential to supporting full recovery. Below-ground biotic communities provide ecosystem services including storage of organic C and provisioning of nutrients to above-ground producers (Daufresne and Loreau 2001).
Defections are fairly common in Australian politics. But history shows they are rarely a good career move
Written by Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University For many years now, Australian political scientists have pointed out that that established partisan allegiance is in decline. In 1967, 36% of Coalition supporters and 32% of Labor voters reported lifetime voting for their side. At the 2022 election, the Australian Election Study[1] found the figures to be 16% and 12%.
Technological change, capital deepening, and agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) growth: Cross‐country comparison of 18 OECD countries
Agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) drives sustainable development, yet its global slowdown—despite transformative digital and biological innovations—threatens food security amidst climate and resource constraints (von Braun et al., 2021; Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO], 2021). From 1961 to 2023, global average TFP growth grew at the rate of 1.4%–1.7% annually and fueled over 60% of the 2.3% agricultural output rise, far outpacing population growth (1.6%).
Using a Supervised Principal Components Analysis for Variable Selection in High‐Dimensional Datasets Reduces False Discovery Rates
High-dimensional datasets, where the number of variables ‘ ’ is much larger than the number of samples ‘ ’, are ubiquitous and often render standard classification techniques unreliable due to overfitting. An important research problem is feature selection, which ranks candidate variables based on their relevance to the outcome variable and retains those that satisfy a chosen criterion.
Political parties can recover after a devastating election loss. But the Liberals will need to think differently
Australia has just had its second landslide election in a row. In 2022, there was a landslide against the Liberals, but not to Labor, which fell over the line (as a majority government) by three seats and with just over 32% of the primary vote. But the Coalition – actually Liberal – loss of seats, at 19, was the kind of result usually associated with the term “landslide”. In 2025, we have a genuine landside to Labor.
Political parties can recover after a devastating election loss. But the Liberals will need to think differently
Australia has just had its second landslide election in a row. In 2022, there was a landslide against the Liberals, but not to Labor, which fell over the line (as a majority government) by three seats and with just over 32% of the primary vote. But the Coalition – actually Liberal – loss of seats[1], at 19, was the kind of result usually associated with the term “landslide”. In 2025, we have a genuine landside to Labor.
It’s a hard job being environment minister. Here’s an insider’s view of the key challenges facing Murray Watt
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Australians are warming to minority governments - but they still prefer majority rule
Minority governments have been part of Australia’s political history since Federation. In the country’s early decades, Prime Ministers Edmund Barton, Alfred Deakin, Chris Watson, George Reid and Andrew Fisher all led without commanding a majority in the House of Representatives. Since the second world war, majority governments have become the norm at the national level, underpinned by the two-party system of Labor and the Liberal-National Coalition.
Albanese’s government might not thrill, but it has shown unity and competence - and that’s no mean feat
Written by Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University The Coalition’s election campaign of 2025 has a strong claim to be considered among the worst since federation. I know of none more shambolic. Barely a day passed without some new misstep or about-face, some embarrassing revelation about a candidate, some new policy condemned by experts as half-baked, uncosted or worse.
Australians are warming to minority governments - but they still prefer majority rule
Minority governments have been part of Australia’s political history since Federation. In the country’s early decades, Prime Ministers Edmund Barton, Alfred Deakin, Chris Watson, George Reid and Andrew Fisher all led without commanding a majority in the House of Representatives. Since the second world war, majority governments have become the norm at the national level, underpinned by the two-party system of Labor and the Liberal-National Coalition.
Is it too late to solve some of our most wicked problems? The Australia Institute won’t let us die wondering
As I begin this review sitting in a Canberra cafe, there are two blokes on the next table complaining about the present federal election campaign’s lack of substance. The complaints of one of them about the Coalition’s fuel excise cut were the first to catch my ear, but it was soon clear enough that they didn’t think much of either party’s policy performance. It was a very Canberra moment.
Uncertainty and pessimism abound. Will fear be enough to push Dutton into office?
Tony Abbott was once unelectable. So were Donald Trump and Boris Johnson. And so was Peter Dutton, not so long ago. But opinion polls over much of 2024 and early 2025 indicated otherwise, and a nightly assault of pre-election political advertising – as my wife and I watched reruns of Law & Order: Criminal Intent – suggested that the Liberals had done their research and needed to humanise their man.
Creative Writing Experiments Workshop
You will learn procedures for writing that you can apply elsewhere. By ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences Lectorial Room 2, Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) 146 Ellery Crescent Acton, ACT 2601 Australia About this event Event lasts 1 hour In this hour-long workshop you will produce your own work of creative writing, using techniques that have been honed by experimental poets. You will learn procedures for writing that you can apply elsewhere.
Success and failure in foreign policy: Comparing Bob Hawke and Kevin Rudd's regional order‐building initiatives
1 INTRODUCTION If you were to ask a close observer of Australian foreign policy to name an unambiguous success story, it is highly likely they would cite Australia's role in the establishment of Australia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). This initiative, floated by Prime Minister Bob Hawke in January 1989 and given institutional form a mere 9 months later, has since become a quintessential example of effective Australian middle power diplomacy.
Corporate Resilience Against the COVID‐19 Crisis: How Valuable is an Islamic Label?
1 Introduction Societal culture (Boubakri and Saffar 2016), religious beliefs (Alhomaidi et al. 2019), and social norms (Hong and Kacperczyk 2009) significantly influence corporate decision-making. Whether firms should pursue “shareholders’ welfare” or “shareholders’ value” maximization goal is a highly debated issue.
Splits, fusions and evolutions: how Australia’s political parties took hold
Political parties are integral to the Australian political system, yet also largely absent from the Commonwealth Constitution itself. They are not entirely absent: a constitutional amendment in 1977 – secured, as required by law, through a referendum – ensured that a casual vacancy for the Senate would be filled by a member of the same party.
Labor’s dumping of Australia’s new nature laws means the environment is shaping as a key 2025 election issue
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has shelved the proposed reforms to Australia’s 25-year-old environment laws, citing a lack of parliamentary support for the changes. The decision breaks Labor’s 2022 election commitment to overhaul the protections. The Albanese government is now the latest in a string of governments that have tried and failed to reform the law known formally as the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act.
Insiders and Outsiders: The Role of Human Agents and Networks in System Change
1 Introduction Understanding how change is precipitated and sustained within systems is critical to the study of regulation and governance.
Machine learning and multi-omics in precision medicine for ME/CFS - Journal of Translational Medicine
The chronic illness Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) evolves and perpetuates from a combination of biological and environmental determinants. Onset often occurs after a trigger event [1], such as viral infection, trauma, or toxin exposure, which induces a physiological response.
‘I don’t hold the hose, mate’: Australia’s political history is full of gaffes. Here are some of best (or worst)
The Oxford English Dictionary defines a gaffe as a “blunder, an instance of clumsy stupidity, a ‘faux pas’.” It evokes a sense of triviality rather than high seriousness. If one’s clumsiness results in the outbreak of war, it would not usually be considered a mere gaffe. Nor are gaffes ordinarily seen to result from the unworthy impulses of spite or cruelty. No one would call Robodebt a gaffe. It was far worse than that. Gaffes normally imply absentmindedness rather than deliberation.
Australians who think inequality is high have less faith in democratic institutions: study
Written by Nicholas Biddle, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University Central to Australia’s cultural and political identity[1] is the notion of a “fair go[2]”. But recent elections, including in the United States, have highlighted the challenge of maintaining shared norms and support for institutions when many voters don’t believe they’re getting a “fair go”.
Revisiting the Social Determinants of Health: understanding stress & trauma
At this one-night only event, join us to hear influential and top ranked scientist Professor Orla Muldoon unpack and update some of the great debates regarding mental health. Research in psychology, medicine and psychiatry has consistently highlighted the importance of both demographic variables and social relationships to the management of stress and health. One way in which these social relationships can be theorised is through a social identity framework.
The RANZCR Artificial Intelligence Committee: Position statement on autonomous AI
Data availability statement The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
A demonstration of the enviromics approach to integrating environmental ‘big data’ problems
With the expansion of technologies available to biological science has come an enormous rise in the amount and diverse nature of data. How we interrogate and combine ‘big data’ in different biological contexts has become the new challenge for crop biologists, be it at the genetic, phenotypic or environmental level (Pal et al., 2020).
Australia’s nature is in deep crisis. These 3 easy steps would give our new environment laws teeth
Written by Peter Burnett, Honorary Associate Professor, ANU College of Law, Australian National University The Albanese government’s environmental reforms are likely to feature prominently on federal parliament’s agenda this week. A Senate inquiry[1] into the long-awaited reforms is due to deliver its findings on Monday. Meanwhile, the Coalition is reportedly preparing to oppose[2] the changes, potentially forcing Labor into negotiations with the Greens[3].
Australians who think inequality is high have less faith in democratic institutions: study
Central to Australia’s cultural and political identity[1] is the notion of a “fair go[2]”. But recent elections, including in the United States, have highlighted the challenge of maintaining shared norms and support for institutions when many voters don’t believe they’re getting a “fair go”. Australia has maintained a reasonably high satisfaction with democracy[3]. However, this satisfaction is slipping[4].
Corrigendum to “P value-driven methods were underpowered to detect publication bias: analysis of Cochrane review meta-analyses”, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, volume 118, (2020), 86-92. - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
The authors regret Tinh Doan's affiliation in the paper “Department of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA” is incorrect. Tinh Doan's correct affiliation is “ANU College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory, Australia”. The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused. © 2024 Elsevier Inc. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.
Faith-based politics is nothing new in Australia - so what’s Albanese really worried about?
Senator Fatima Payman’s defection over Labor Party policy on statehood for the Palestinians has generated wider discussion about the written and unwritten rules of Australian politics. One of those involves the vexed question of the role of religious faith. Scott Morrison’s prime ministership inevitably raised it. Morrison did not hide his evangelical Christianity. His strange memoir revived the issue because it showed Morrison’s faith was not incidental to his politics.
Emeritus Professor Richard Hartley elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Emeritus Professor Richard Hartley FAA FRS, of the School of Computing at the Australian National University (ANU), has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the oldest known scientific academy in continuous existence.
Australian consensus: Treatment goals for moderate to severe psoriasis in the era of targeted therapies - Considerations for paediatric patients
Goals for the assessment, classification and management of children and adolescents with moderate to severe psoriasis in Australian clinical practice align with those developed for the adult population, with the additional requirement to use age-specific tools to better understand the burden of disease on the patients and their family. INTRODUCTION Psoriasis is an immune-mediated inflammatory skin disease with a chronic, relapsing–remitting course.
Mortality from the 1944-1945 famine in Java, Indonesia
INTRODUCTION Indonesia is a country that experienced several famines in its modern history which have remained under-researched. One of these is the 1944–1945 famine during the 1942–1945 Japanese occupation of Indonesia. This famine spilled over into the subsequent years 1946–1948 when newly independent Indonesia fought a war of independence against the forces of the colonial government of the Netherlands East Indies.
It’s time to strike an environmental grand bargain between businesses, governments and conservationists - and stop doing things the hard way
April has been a bad month for the Australian environment. The Great Barrier Reef was hit, yet again, by intense coral bleaching. And Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek delayed[1] most of her Nature Positive Plan[2] reforms. True, Plibersek [3] the controversial Toondah Harbour proposal, but only after a near decade-long grassroots campaign to save the wetland from an apartment and retail development deemed clearly unacceptable[4] by her own department.
It’s time to strike an environmental grand bargain between businesses, governments and conservationists - and stop doing things the hard way
By Peter Burnett, Honorary Associate Professor, ANU College of Law, Australian National University April has been a bad month for the Australian environment. The Great Barrier Reef was hit, yet again, by intense coral bleaching. And Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek delayed most of her Nature Positive Plan reforms. True, Plibersek Read complete article © The Conversation -
Leaf day respiration: More than just catabolic CO2 production in the light
Note: References marked with * are available in Supplementary information file. • , , , & . Reimport of carbon from cytosolic and vacuolar sugar pools into the Calvin–Benson cycle explains photosynthesis labeling anomalies . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences : Article no. e2121531119.
In conversation with Rt Hon Helen Clark
Rt Hon Helen Clark is a respected global leader in sustainable development, gender equality and international co-operation, and served nine years as the first female Prime Minister of New Zealand. While in government, she led policy debate on a wide range of economic, social, environmental, and cultural issues, including sustainability and climate change. From Waikato farm girl to university lecturer, Member of Parliament to NZ Prime Minister and a top job at the United Nations.
Internships that make a difference
Experience the heart of Australian policy-making and politics through a research project with the Australian National Internships Program (ANIP). ANIP is a research intensive internship that gives undergraduate and postgraduate students unique access to the leading institutions based in Canberra and abroad. ANIP is the only university program that offers Commonwealth Parliamentary Internships to students from across Australia.
Studying Music at ANU
Music at ANU nurtures outstanding musical artistry through the intersection of performance, composition and technology, underpinned by a keen interest in music inquiry within creative and professional practice. It fosters creativity through offering a diversity of experiences in an environment that encourages excellence, passion and entrepreneurship and engagement with technology and interdisciplinarity.
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