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This is a story about what it's like to tackle an entirely new problem, so nothing is easy. Not even catching some beetles.

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A feral cat with a native bird in it's mouth
Friday, 08 Sep 2023
  • Research story

Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has released a draft feral cat management plan, experts explain how the plan could help prevent extinctions of Australian wildlife.

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Wednesday, 06 Sep 2023
  • Student profile

“It is a strange thing being so intimately part of something but also not understanding what will happen, and the secrecies involved in it,” says ANU alumna and Alone Australia contestant Kate Grarock.

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Back Mountain tower with trees in the foreground at sunset.
Wednesday, 28 Jun 2023
  • Education story

The course description begins: “Would you like to make a difference to the world, but are not sure how, or where to start?” It’s a bold opening gambit, but this particular course is prepared to be bold.

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Thursday, 30 Mar 2023
A surfboard covered in an ocean-scape and filled with Pasifika flowers stands up, pointing to a blue sky.
Tuesday, 28 Mar 2023
  • Decoloyarns

The majority of the media coverage of the 2023 AUKUS submarine deal has focused on the interests of settler-colonists. So whose perspectives and interests might flesh out a bigger nuclear picture that keeps the environment in mind?

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In a warmly-lit (and slightly dim) official-looking room, a young woman stands holding a drip-shaped award in gold. She is standing in front of three banners that all read 'ICON'. She is smiling, with blonde hair and a pale pink tulip-petal long dress.
Monday, 06 Mar 2023
  • Research story

Sometimes research projects have outcomes you can’t anticipate, such as finding yourself on an Instagram Live, surprising local front page news articles, and unexpected awards.

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Sihle Dube works with Agritex Officer, Mcoli Matshazi. Behind them is a head-high field of green crops, and some pale blue sky peeks out behind.
Thursday, 02 Mar 2023
  • Student profile

What does mean for a local-national to do research in partnership with the interests and concerns of her people?

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A cartoon illustration of five people who are culturally and ethnically different, holding each other in warm shoulder touches in a family-style portrait.
Monday, 20 Feb 2023
  • Decoloyarns

The decoloyarns editorial team was thrilled when Caroline Hendy, an incoming PhD student in linguistics at the College of Asia and the Pacific, pitched this reflection on a decolonised unit that was part her post-graduate studies at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

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A trio of Education Technologists stand together. The image is from the waist up.
Monday, 16 Jan 2023
  • Education story

The Fenner Education Hub have been chosen as joint recipients of the College of Systems and Society Award for Service in the Team Service Contribution category.

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