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Professor ANU. Biopolitics, innovation, reproduction, history.
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Nikolas Rose
23 days ago
It is with overwhelming grief that I must tell you that Diana Rose, my beautiful, brilliant and brave life partner of half a century, died last night after a lengthy period of ill health. We will celebrate her remarkable life later; for now please hold her in your hearts and your thoughts.
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Warwick Anderson
about 1 month ago
TWO great jobs in History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney! Rank from Lecturer (Assistant Prof) to Assoc Prof. Particularly interested in candidates working in the areas of early modern science, or science or medicine in Asia, or Indigenous knowledge systems...
#HPS
#STS
#histstm
#histsci
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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philosophy of Science - Camperdown, Australia job with UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY | 410910
Build your research and apply your expertise by contributing as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philos...
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listing/410910/lecturer-senior-lecturer-associate-professor-to-the-school-of-history-and-philosophy-of-science/
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Warwick Anderson
about 1 month ago
I'll be chatting informally about bioethics for the planet this Thursday at Sydney Health Ethics, 12-1. In person and zoom:
uni-sydney.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Dr Lachlan Clohesy
about 2 months ago
If anyone ever doubted the power of workers acting together collectively, let
#ANU
be a case study. Fantastic collective effort to protect the ANU and its people by
@nteunion.bsky.social
members. Join the union at
www.nteu.au/join
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Warwick Anderson
about 2 months ago
At last!
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Julie Bishop resigns as Australian National University chancellor
Former foreign minister steps down early as finance minister Katy Gallagher says embattled institution must continue ‘rebuilding trust and confidence’
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/08/julie-bishop-resigns-anu-chancellor?CMP=share_btn_url
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Why is Julie Bishop so powerful?
Changes to ANU's legal governance framework in 2020 have rendered its chancellor all-powerful. No wonder she's unblinking when under scrutiny and multiple investigations.
https://open.substack.com/pub/theharereport/p/why-is-julie-bishop-so-powerful?r=62kbsq&utm_medium=ios
about 2 months ago
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Crikey
about 2 months ago
Julie Bishop is stepping down as ANU chancellor in December. In an unprecedented intervention, the higher education regulator will have a guiding hand in picking her replacement.
www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/29/a...
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The countdown to Julie Bishop's replacement has begun
ANU's council has signed a 'voluntary' agreement with the regulator about how its chancellor's successor will be chosen. It doesn't reflect well on the university council.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/29/anu-under-siege-chancellor-julie-bishop-replacement/
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NTEU ACT
about 2 months ago
“If they can’t be trusted to perform their core functions, appointed members of ANU council need to be removed. We shouldn’t have to wait until Julie Bishop’s term ends to resolve the leadership and governance crisis at the ANU.” -
@nteunion.bsky.social
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Regulator to take charge of ANU chancellor recruitment
Compromise move allows university to press ahead with search for Bishop’s replacement by giving Teqsa unprecedented role
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/teqsa-take-charge-anu-chancellor-recruitment
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Jayne Persian
2 months ago
Professor Katie Barclay re the state of Oz unis:
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Warwick Anderson
2 months ago
Call for conttributions to special issue of
@bioethicalinquiry.bsky.social
on 'Bioethics for the Planet', mixing medical ethics & environmental (climate) ethics - edited by Paul Komesaroff, Cara Platts, Natasha Rooney and me. EoI by May 31 to
[email protected]
#bioethics
#medhum
#envhum
#STS
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Leroy
2 months ago
Former ANU vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has been suspended from her ongoing role as a distinguished professor and accused of serious misconduct after allegedly making a close friend a full professor despite him having no university qualifications.
web.archive.org/web/20260410...
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Exclusive: Former ANU VC accused of ‘serious misconduct’
Former ANU vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has been suspended from the university and accused of serious misconduct after allegedly making a close friend a full professor despite him having no universi...
https://web.archive.org/web/20260410215618/https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/education/2026/04/11/exclusive-former-anu-vc-accused-serious-misconduct
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BioSocieties
3 months ago
The brilliant BioSocieties Special Issue: The 𝘕𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 in Life Science, Biomedicine, and Care is out now!
link.springer.com/journal/4129...
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NTEU ACT
3 months ago
Tonight, Four Corners unpacks the crisis of university governance in Australia on
#ABC
.
@nteunion.bsky.social
members are proud to have put university governance on the national agenda - but there is more to do! Not yet a member? Join today at
www.nteu.au/join
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Latest special issue - The Near Human
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Introduction to the special issue: The Near Human in life science, biomedicine, and care - BioSocieties
BioSocieties -
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41292-026-00380-x
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SYD STS NETWORK
3 months ago
Join us for a talk by Deboleena Roy (Emory University): “Stolonic Strategies: Biophilosophies and Community Building in STS.” With discussants
@cwaldby.bsky.social
&
@jiannitien.bsky.social
Chaired by
@shoshohini.bsky.social
🗓 17 March | USYD |
tinyurl.com/yc2e7ah4
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Stolonic Strategies: Biophilosophies and Community Building in STS
Seminar on Stolonic Strategies: Biophilosophies and Community Building in STS by Prof Deboleena Roy
https://tinyurl.com/yc2e7ah4
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Sonja van Wichelen
4 months ago
Sydney STS Peeps 📣 Join us for a talk by Deboleena Roy (Emory University): “Stolonic Strategies: Biophilosophies and Community Building in STS.” With discussants
@cwaldby.bsky.social
&
@jiannitien.bsky.social
Chaired by
@shoshohini.bsky.social
🗓 17 March | USYD | See flyer for deets
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Warwick Anderson
4 months ago
An excellent review of Medicine on a Larger Scale
@universitypress.cambridge.org
eds
@ahlie.bsky.social
, Jeremy Greene and me - by Kirsten Ann Ehrenberger in J History of Medicine & Allied Sciences
academic.oup.com/jhmas/advanc...
#histmed
#histstm
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AusSTS
4 months ago
AusSTS is thrilled to announce the launch of two new annual awards 🏆✨ The AusSTS Best Paper Prize celebrates the work of junior STS scholars in the AusSTS community. It is open to current PhDs and ECRs, who have conferred their PhD within the last two years of the submission closing date.
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Tim Onion
4 months ago
A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks. "So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice
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Warwick Anderson
5 months ago
A moving obituary from
@libbydeq.bsky.social
and Tom Griffiths:
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Vale Heather Goodall
It is with immense sadness that the AANZEHN shares the news that our friend and colleague Heather Goodall passed away peacefully on 29 January 2026, surrounded by her family. Heather was a powerhou…
https://www.environmentalhistory-au-nz.org/2026/02/vale-heather-goodall/
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The Australian National University hiring Research Fellow in Russell, Australian Capital Territory, Australia | LinkedIn
Posted 3:47:42 AM. Classification: Academic Level BSalary package: $118,632 - $134,507 per annum plus 17%…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
https://lnkd.in/dJzT9UYV
6 months ago
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Great job at The Australian National University: Research Fellow school of sociology.
6 months ago
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Warwick Anderson
6 months ago
A warning from
@jama.com
about damage to ethics and social medicine in the US, which we anticipated in our book Medicine on a Larger Scale, edited with
@ahlie.bsky.social
and Jeremy Greene, available open access from
@portersqbooks.bsky.social
Pity these authors didn't engage with it - but you can!
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Teaching Through Uncertainty
This Viewpoint discusses the uncertainty that medical ethics and social medicine instructors face in regard to the rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and university funding cuts.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2843476
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Warwick Anderson
6 months ago
Shocked to learn of the death of Emma Johnston, the young vice-chancellor (president) at the University of Melbourne. I knew Emma at Sydney, vivacious and charming, a vibrant research leader. A marine ecologist, she was also committed to the humanities, due to undergraduate HPS training at Melbourne
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Notice of the passing of our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Emma Johnston AO
https://vcmail.unimelb.edu.au/banner-items/notice-of-the-passing-of-our-vice-chancellor,-professor-emma-johnston-ao?utm_source=webforum&utm_medium=email&utm_content=view+as+a+web+page
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BioSocieties
6 months ago
View our fantastic December Special Issue: Reconceptualising Toxicity and Environmental Justice at
link.springer.com/journal/4129...
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Warwick Anderson
6 months ago
Looks like we've become complacent since the gun restrictions of the 1990s - time for even more stringent rules. The worst gun violence in Australia in 30 years...
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Australia had the ‘gold standard’ on gun control. The Bondi beach terror attack may force it to confront its surging number of weapons
There are now more guns in the community per capita than in the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre, with at least 2,000 new firearms lawfully entering the community every week
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/14/australia-had-the-gold-standard-on-gun-control-the-bondi-beach-terror-attack-will-force-it-to-confront-its-surging-number-of-weapons?CMP=share_btn_url
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How we can make ANU a model for proper uni governance
www.reddit.com/r/Anu/commen...
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Opinion: How we can make ANU a model for proper uni governance
https://www.reddit.com/r/Anu/comments/1pkfpon/opinion_how_we_can_make_anu_a_model_for_proper/?utm_source=share
6 months ago
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The ANU Governance Project welcomes the final report of the Senate Inquiry into the Quality of Governance at Australian Higher Education providers, calling it a critical step toward restoring trust and accountability in Australia’s university sector.
www.anugovernance.org/pressrelease...
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https://www.anugovernance.org/pressrelease251211.pdf
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Research Fellow, Ethnography and Sociology of the Artificial Cryosphere - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification: ANU Academic Level BSalary package: $118,632 - $134,507 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerms: Full-time, Continuing (contingent funded) This position is continuing (contingent funded...
https://jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/research-fellow-ethnography-and-sociology-of-the-artificial-cryosphere-canberra-act-act-australia
7 months ago
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Research Fellow, Social and Ethical Dimensions of Applied Cryobiology - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification: ANU Academic Level BSalary package: $118,632 - $134,507 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerms: Full-time, Continuing (contingent funded) This position is continuing (contingent funded...
https://jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/research-fellow-social-and-ethical-dimensions-of-applied-cryobiology-canberra-act-act-australia
7 months ago
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Sonja van Wichelen
7 months ago
Join me in Cambridge for the CRASSH Symposium on Science Diplomacy — a chance to think with scholars across STS, HPS, sociology, IR & socio-legal studies.
#STS
@4sweb.bsky.social
@joyzhang.bsky.social
@samhistsci.bsky.social
@hyoyoonkang.bsky.social
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48677...
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Science diplomacy in a time of fractured institutions - CRASSH
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48677/#description
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This is such an honour. Thank you to my fantastic colleagues and friends.
7 months ago
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Adam David Morton
9 months ago
JOB! Permanent Lecturer / Senior Lecturer position (education focused) in Political Economy at the University of Sydney.
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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Political Economy (Education Focused) - University of Sydney - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
The Discipline of Political Economy at the University of Sydney is advertising a continuing education focused position, to be appointed at either Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level. This position is pa...
https://www.ppesydney.net/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-political-economy-education-focused-university-of-sydney/
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Warwick Anderson
7 months ago
Proofs of the Afterword by
@cwaldby.bsky.social
and me for the social survey in global perspective book have arrived. Edited by Charlotte Greenhalgh,
@clarecorbould.bsky.social
and me, published in 2026 by
@berghahnbooks.bsky.social
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Greenh...
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Thesiswhisperer
9 months ago
ANU colleagues and students - please share this post if you can: The ANU governance project has extended our deadline to comment on the Draft report to next week - 7 October. Here's a link to a feedback form, which also contains the link to the draft report:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Feedback on ANU Governance Project Draft Report
The ANU Governance Project Working Group are proud to present the Draft Project Report for community feedback and consultation. The Draft Project Report is available on our website or through THIS LINK. Using a process that has involved deep listening and a participatory and deliberative process across the ANU community, we have compiled a unique and valuable body of evidence that documents what’s wrong with governance at the ANU and charts a way forward to help rebuild trust and to deliver best practice governance. Over 600 ANU staff, students, and stakeholders have participated in this project, and in contributing constructively to the future of ANU. This includes 590 members of the community who participated in our survey, 75 who participated in one-hour small group discussions, and over 40 from across the university who participated in our project workshop. The ANU community told us there a critical need for change: Over 96% of survey respondents and all discussion group participants believe current ANU governance is not fit for purpose and should be reformed. Over 92% of survey respondents and all discussion group participants expressed dissatisfaction with current ANU governance. Over 93% of survey respondents said they were dissatisfied with current practices of transparency at the ANU. Over 93% of survey respondents said they were dissatisfied with accountability frameworks at the ANU. The ANU Community has proposed the following near-term steps forward for a reformed ANU: Council must direct Finance to produce and publish a current budget breakdown. Council must revise and publish selection criteria for Executive positions. Council meetings must immediately be made fully accessible to the community. Academic Board must regularly review and assess the financial decisions of senior executives and Council. Commence senior leadership listening tours with the ANU community. Additional recommendations forwarded by the community are summarised in the full report, including a proposal to co-design legislative reform of the ANU Act with the community. The Working Group invites the ANU community and stakeholders to offer feedback via this form on the draft report by midnight on Tuesday 7 October. This deadline has been extended in order to allow us more time to hear and incorporate community feedback ahead of the release of our final report on Monday 20 October.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQ5AB57IgnbJ4d-UFg1aqpRL-96zsI8zI7w5pooPQOM8VAwg/viewform
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Thesiswhisperer
9 months ago
ANU people - please share! The ANU governance project has a media release about the presentation by the Interim Vice Chancellor's speech on Thursday here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1oGH5...
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Here's How We Save the ANU - Canberra Times - 12 Sep 2025
https://anugovernance-davidpocock.nationbuilder.com/here_s_how_we_save_the_anu_canberra_times
9 months ago
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Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle)
9 months ago
Re
#MeanjinJournal
, a letter from myself and some of my colleagues to The University of Melbourne.
#Meanjin
is such an important part of Australia's literary ecosystem and losing it would be culturally and industrially devastating.
#AusLit
#AustralianWriters
#Publishing
#Unimelb
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Crikey
9 months ago
An ANU all-staff meeting erupted into cheers when it was announced that Vice-Chancellor Genevieve Bell was stepping down, writes Ben Eltham.
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When Bell resigned, staff cheered. The ANU drama and a broken university sector
The downfall of now-ousted ANU boss Genevieve Bell is just a microcosm of a broader crisis in Australian university governance.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/12/genevieve-bell-resigns-vice-chancellor-anu-university-sector-redundancies/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1757657638-2
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Mehreen Faruqi
10 months ago
This moment is a chance to rebuild ANU into a democratic, accountable and thriving institution that has the trust and confidence of its community once again. It must not be wasted.
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Our ANU
9 months ago
“dialogue is the antithesis of either top-down or bureaucratic decision-making. It acknowledges the place of risk in the interactions between participants, as they make themselves vulnerable by engaging with a wide range of people...” ANU Governance Project
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/906463...
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ANU's crisis runs deeper than the leadership. Here's how we save the university
If we get this right, it could be a model for other universities.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/9064638/transforming-anu-addressing-governance-issues/
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David Pocock
10 months ago
As the only university covered by federal law, why can’t we see a similar intervention at ANU? I hear constantly from staff about the huge toll on from the almost year long shambolic process of cuts at the ANU. We need an immediate pause to forced redundancies.
www.afr.com/companies/en...
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UTS told to pause staff cuts because of ‘psychological harm’ risk
The workplace regulator has intervened in a redundancy process at the University of Technology Sydney in what experts say is rare but could become more common.
https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/uts-told-to-pause-staff-cuts-because-of-psychological-harm-risk-20250903-p5ms59
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Matt Ryan
10 months ago
A gut-wrenching read from a brilliant scholar, on the crisis at ANU. It speaks to the broader sickness in our universities (including my own). FYI
@frankbongiorno.bsky.social
@hannahforsyth.bsky.social
@capandgown.bsky.social
@joshuablackjb.bsky.social
overland.org.au/2025/08/anu-...
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ANU at a crossroads: between the social body and the iron cage - Overland literary journal
The organic solidarity on display across ANU gives the institution its moral clarity and counterweight to a bureaucracy that risks becoming a case as hard as steel. In the last six months, ANU staff, ...
https://overland.org.au/2025/08/anu-at-a-crossroads-between-the-social-body-and-the-iron-cage
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The Tattooed Professor
10 months ago
The country holds round tables on productivity while the university sector is underfunded and suffers from poor neoliberal governance without accountability right at the top. One doesn't need a uni degree to understand stagnant productivity if one doesn't invest in knowledge and innovation.
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Our ANU
10 months ago
@thesaturdaypaper.com.au
your headline is grossly inaccurate: the VC intends to continue with more than 100 further forced redundancies. This includes through cruel spill and fill processes scheduled for later this year.
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FF_notes
10 months ago
Regulator demands Australian National University defend council conduct amid governance concerns
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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Regulator demands ANU defend its council members' conduct
A federal government investigation into the Australian National University demands the university defend the conduct of its council members amid concerns they have failed to competently oversee its op...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-17/regulator-demands-defence-of-anu-council-conduct/105663726
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Ben Eltham
10 months ago
David Pocock: Julie Bishop should stand aside as ANU Chancellor
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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Bishop should stand aside from ANU role amid bullying claim, senator says
ACT independent Senator David Pocock says he is concerned the issues facing the Australian National University are affecting its staff and students and calls for more transparency.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-13/pocock-calls-anu-julie-bishop-stand-aside-bullying-allegations/105646358
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Prof Naomi Priest PhD
10 months ago
Beyond distressing to experience and watch this unfold
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Our ANU
11 months ago
ANU community members, please help complete this governance survey. The organizers are seeking high volume of responses before the Senate hearing next Tuesday.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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