ANU Reporter

Join fellow alumni and friends for a special ACT premiere event, featuring a post-film discussion with director Kane Guglielmi and special guests David Pocock and ANU alumna Katherine Trebeck. Common Wealth is an intimate yet globally minded documentary that follows filmmaker Kane Guglielmi on a personal journey to question the economic and political systems that shape modern life.

James O’Loghlin will be in conversation with Alex Sloan on his new book The Missing Piece.How I became an accidental activist Usually when a friend is dying, there’s not much you can do. But what if there was? James O’Loghlin’s best friend at university was Jum Wallner, but once careers and kids came along, they drifted apart. That was, until the day Jum felt a pain in his side and remembered he had grown up in a house filled with ‘Mr Fluffy’ asbestos insulation.

Join us for a very special ACT premiere event, featuring a post-film discussion with director Kane Guglielmi and special guests Senator David Pocock and ANU alumna Katherine Trebeck. Common Wealth is an intimate yet globally minded documentary that follows filmmaker Kane Guglielmi on a personal journey to question the economic and political systems that shape modern life.

Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson will be in conversation with Mark Kenny on their new book Getting Murdoched.How Murdoch’s Media Wields Power and Punishment. For decades, Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire has shaped political landscapes, influenced elections, and fuelled public opinion. But behind the headlines lies a darker story — of targeted campaigns, smear tactics, and relentless attacks on those who don’t fit the Murdoch mould.

28 May, 2026 Vice-President (First Nations) Professor Peter Yu today called for federal policy reform to reshape the relationship architecture and the economic and fiscal relationship between First Nations peoples, government and the wider Australian community. Speaking to senior public servants, onlookers and supporters in a packed event at Parliament House in Canberra, Professor Yu also underlined the importance of ongoing legal action to gain more recognition of Indigenous land rights.

28 May, 2026 Vice-President (First Nations) Professor Peter Yu today called for federal policy reform to reshape the relationship architecture and the economic and fiscal relationship between First Nations peoples, government and the wider Australian community.

The ANU Careers & Employability team has opened a  new physical home for Career Central at 23 University Avenue. The space is open Tuesday to Thursday, 10am - 3pm, and is available to all ANU students and alumni.

Join us for a floor talk and tour of Painting Itself / 绘画本身. The Drill Hall Gallery has partnered with Perth Institute of Contemporary Art to present Painting Itself / 绘画本身. Curated by Jonathan Nichols the exhibition explores a horizontal culture in painting, where fundamental ideas about its history and vitality – long the influence of European and American values – are being reshaped in East and Southeast Asia.

Lecture 3: Abstraction, representation and expression in Yolŋu art Professor Howard Morphy Abstraction, representation and expression are key terms in art history. In categorising works of art they are often separated as categories — ‘abstract’, ‘representational’ — or combined together as in ‘abstract expressionism’. Non-Western art works often find themselves placed in one or other category on the basis of form alone in order to be positioned in a global space.

Indigenous Australians got a seat at the highest national table to shape future economic policy through a historic agreement signed by the Federal Government and brokered by First Nations Portfolio (FNP). The First Nations Economic Partnership was spearheaded by an alliance of committed Indigenous people, together with FNP and The Australian National University (ANU).