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The site was a coaching inn, a pub essentially, but the publican built more buildings out the back and rented them out to the army.

The Australian National University (ANU) has received a $2 million grant from The Ian Potter Foundation to find ways to improve environmental management of farmlands.

Those two years bristled with Paul Keating's energy to act on several aspects of revitalising Australia's image of itself.

The 2010, 2013, and 2016 elections each saw newly elected Prime Ministers fail to reach above the half way point on a ten-point scale of how much voters liked the leader.

Democracy sausage: A barbecued sausage served on a slice of bread, bought at a polling booth sausage sizzle on election day .

This new diamond is not going to be on any engagement rings. You'll more likely find it on a mining site - but I still think that diamonds are a scientist's best friend.

School identification was an important and significant predictor of performance. On average it's able to lift students' performance by about 10 points on NAPLAN, that's after we take the other variables into account. Ahead of National Assessment Program, Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) results due to be released on Tuesday, new psychology research has found a surprising new factor that can lift student NAPLAN scores by as many as 10 points.

The game will take account of the relationship between policy, operations, regulation and the unexpected.

The nano crystals are so small they could be fitted as an ultra-thin film to normal eye glasses to enable night vision.

Scientists have developed a new optical chip for a telescope that enables astronomers to have a clear view of alien planets that may support life.

The NHMRC funding is a great outcome for ANU and will help support our researchers as they try to solve some of the major problems and health issues facing Australia and the world.

After Donald Trump's surprise win of the US Presidential election, financial markets rallied but this may be short-lived.

This agreement will allow policy makers to further tap into ANU research and expertise to address the major challenges Australia is facing.

Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have called for an urgent rethink of the Federal Government's Community Development Programme (CDP), a work-for-the-dole style initiative for remote areas, after a report found it is causing major problems.

The World Energy Outlook shows that present world-wide energy policies are well behind what is needed to achieve the maximum 2 degree temperature increase ratified by the Paris climate change agreement.

Panic grasses contain an enzyme that captures carbon dioxide from the atmosphere more efficiently than other plants in the extreme climate conditions predicted in coming decades. Australian researchers have discovered that the common Panic grasses could hold the secret to increasing the yields of cereal crops and help feed the world with increasing temperature extremes and a population of nearly 10 billion people by 2050.

We're in an era where the common frame of reference for judging what is a fact and what is not, is disintegrating.

Australians have shown overwhelming support to help save the critically endangered orange bellied parrot.

The opportunity is with us now to help Australian farmers to be productive, and at the same time help support healthier ecosystems.

Research from The Australian National University (ANU) has found chimpanzees and orangutans in captivity can improve their quality of life through the use of digital touch-screen technology and interactive games.

One in five people aged 25 to 54 years old don't have time to exercise and eat healthy food, a new study led by ANU has found. Lead researcher Dr Lyndall Strazdins said results from the first longitudinal study of time as a determinant of health rang alarm bells for health problems including obesity, heart disease and Type 2 Diabetes.

Researchers at ANU are calling for the public to help save the wild population of the orange bellied parrot before they go extinct.

Australia's oldest-known piece of Indigenous jewellery has been unearthed in the Kimberley region of northern Australia by archaeologists at The Australian National University (ANU).

Optical could be enhanced by controlling the amount of twist in the light, allowing you to send with fewer photons. Scientists from Australia, Austria and Canada have broken the world record for twisting light, opening the door to faster and ultra-secure encrypted. Dr Geoff Campbell from the ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering developed an aluminium spiral-mirror device that his colleagues in Vienna and Ottawa used to break the record amount of twist in a photon, which is a particle of light.

We should make a point of saying that once Mosul falls, we're out. There's not much to be gained by extending our conventional military involvement from that point onwards.

The gecko lives in popular tourist sites such as Kings Canyon and Palm Valley, and had been confused with other similar-looking species. Researchers have discovered an ancient species of gecko in the ranges of Central Australia which may shine new light on how and when Australia's deserts began to form millions of year ago.

Australia can be the leader in this new technology. Devices providing location information are critical for civilian and defence applications, and this is a multi-billion dollar industry that is rapidly growing.

The United States is likely to drop out of the Paris Agreement or the overall global climate convention, but new research from The Australian National University (ANU) suggests a Trump Presidency could create new opportunities to reduce carbon emissions. Dr Luke Kemp from ANU said Donald Trump's victory at the US election could be the moment that keeping global warming under 2 degrees Celsius became unachievable.

It can't just be about the economy, milking the Indian cow for what it can provide. We need a more holistic appreciation of India's languages, culture and society which is required if we want to get India's attention.

The Australian National University (ANU) has become the first Australian university to be accepted into the US National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenge Scholars Program.

An X-ray microscopy laboratory at ANU was officially opened on Monday following a $5 million upgrade to help store carbon dioxide underground.

THE ANZUS ALLIANCE 4PM MONDAY 7 NOVEMBER Associate Professor Peter Dean, Senior Fellow at the ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.

If we continue with business-as-usual emissions, extreme seasons will inevitably be the norm within decades and Australia is the canary in the coal mine that will experience this change first. The hottest year on record globally in 2015 could be an average year by 2025 and beyond if carbon emissions continue to rise at the same rate, new research has found.

Donald Trump's plan to charge US allies for military protection will create significant instability in the Asia Pacific region, leaving Australia needing to build new partnerships with other countries likely to be anxious about rising Chinese assertiveness.

The Fenner School is exciting because it brings together a mix of people from different disciplines, to train the next generation of problem solvers.

Hydro power could provide cost-effective large-scale energy storage that can support high levels of renewable energy in Australia's electricity grid.

The latest ARC round is a magnificent outcome for ANU and ensures our researchers will continue to work on solving the problems that face the nation and the world.

By the time he dies, F Scott Fitzgerald had only sold 25,000 copies of The Great Gatsby, at the same time Superman comics are selling a million copies a month.

Physicists at ANU and University of Queensland (UQ) have produced near-perfect clones of quantum information using a new method to surpass previous cloning limits. A global race is on to use quantum physics for ultra-secure encryption over long distances according to Professor Ping Koy Lam, node director of the Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC 2 T) at ANU.

The Cold War is on for young and old during this period. There is enough espionage and counter espionage around the suburbs of Canberra to make recent TV shows pale by comparison.