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Director of the Australian National Dictonary Centre Professor Amanda Laugesen.

From bluey to bogans: Researchers who help define how the nation speaks to lose their jobs

For almost 40 years, the words the nation uses in speech, newspapers and books has been mapped by a small team at the Australian National Dictionary Centre.

  • Christopher Harris

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Dr Kaitlin Cook, deputy scientific director of the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility, and Emeritus Professor David Hinde.

How this Australian particle accelerator highlights a crisis facing AUKUS

Australia’s strongest particle accelerator helped conjure new elements into being. But many students trained at the facility are being hired offshore.

  • Angus Dalton
ANU chancellor and former foreign minister Julie Bishop.

ANU staff pass no-confidence vote against chancellor Julie Bishop

Hundreds of Australian National University staff say they have no confidence in the university’s leadership amid job cuts and a pay rise dispute. 

  • Caroline Schelle
Anthony Albanese and income gains during the first term of his government.

The real winners and losers from Albanese’s handouts

Cost-of-living pressures have dominated the Albanese government’s term. New analysis shows who it has tried to dull the pain for.

  • Shane Wright
A screenshot of a student holding their finger to their nose, appearing to imitate a Hitler moustache.

Outrage after uni finds salute, moustache gesture are not antisemitic

The ANU found there was no case to punish a student who appeared to give a Nazi salute, despite the deputy vice chancellor agreeing it happened “on a superficial level”.

  • Olivia Ireland
Pro-Palestine rallies on campus spawned a national debate on the limits of free speech earlier this year.

ANU revokes expulsion for student who supported Hamas

Beatrice Tucker was expelled from the prestigious Canberra university after saying the terror group should not be condemned for the October 7 attacks in Israel.

  • Paul Sakkal
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Illustration: Simon Letch

Australian students could be the real victims of international caps

Without top 100 rankings, we lose our reputation as a place of high-quality education. Without that, things quickly snowball for locals wanting an education.

  • Waleed Aly
An animation of Earth’s magnetic field protecting the planet from a coronal mass ejection.

Aussie scientists found a ‘doughnut’ in Earth’s core – and it’s helping keep us alive

By tuning in to the rumble of earthquakes, scientists took an X-ray of the Earth – and discovered something extraordinary.

  • Angus Dalton
Protesters at the pro-Palestinian encampment at the Australian National University in May.

Top university rejects antisemitism definition over academic freedom

The Australian National University refused to adopt a contentious definition of antisemitism used by other tertiary institutions.

  • Angus Thompson
Immigration levels and higher education.

Unis blame government for student visa delays weeks before semester two

Several alarmed universities believe the visa delays are more evidence of the government suppressing foreign arrivals due to a political fight over migration.

  • Angus Thompson

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