With the Australian federal election scheduled for later this year, The Australian National University (ANU) has experts who can comment on a range of topics.
You can contact our experts via the details listed below. Alternatively, please reach out to the ANU Media team on our hotline +61 2 6125 7979 or by emailing media@anu.edu.au.
POLITICS AND ELECTIONS
Dr Vanessa Teague
ANU School of Computing
Expertise: Technical aspects of election security, including security and privacy aspects of electronic voting and counting, election auditing, and other aspects of using computers in elections
E: Vanessa.Teague@anu.edu.au
Dr Jill Sheppard
ANU School of Politics and International Relations
Expertise: Elections, Australian politics, parliament, parties
E: Jill.Sheppard@anu.edu.au
Professor Donald Rothwell
ANU Law School
Expertise: International law with a particular focus on Australian responses to the Trump administration, constitutional law applicable to formation of government following the federal election
E: Donald.Rothwell@anu.edu.au
Dr Ryan Goss
ANU Law School
Expertise: Constitutional law, the Constitution and elections/politics/formation of government, etc.
E: Ryan.Goss@anu.edu.au
Professor Ron Levy
ANU Law School
Expertise: Constitutional issues (e.g. federalism, Indigenous constitutional issues), political communication (e.g. misinformation, funding, deliberation), institutions of political engagement, reform of political systems, human rights, armed conflict
E: Ron.Levy@anu.edu.au
NATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS
David Andrews
ANU National Security College
Expertise: Defence, national security, foreign affairs
E: David.Andrews@anu.edu.au
Jennifer Parker
ANU National Security College
Expertise: Defence, national security
E: Jennifer.Parker@anu.edu.au
HEALTH AND SOCIAL POLICY
Dr Liz Allen
POLIS: The Centre for Social Policy Research
Expertise: Population, immigration, demography, inequality, social policy, housing, social trends
E: Liz.Allen@anu.edu.au
Professor Michael Platow
ANU School of Medicine and Psychology
Expertise: Psychology of leadership, psychology of fairness, psychology of prejudice and intergroup relations, psychology of perceived truth
E: Michael.Platow@anu.edu.au
GENDER
Professor Michelle Ryan
ANU Global Institute for Women’s Leadership
Expertise: Gender
E: Michelle.Ryan@anu.edu.au
ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY AND CLIMATE
Professor Andrew Blakers
ANU School of Engineering
Expertise: Energy policy and technology, renewable energy technologies such as solar, wind and hydro
E: Andrew.Blakers@anu.edu.au
Professor Frank Jotzo
ANU Crawford School of Public Policy
Expertise: Environment and resource economics, economic development policy, environment policy
E: Frank.Jotzo@anu.edu.au
Professor Ken Baldwin
ANU Research School of Physics
Expertise: Energy, research policy
E: Kenneth.Baldwin@anu.edu.au
Professor David Lindenmayer
ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society
Expertise: Biodiversity in agricultural landscapes, fire and fire management
E: David.Lindenmayer@anu.edu.au
ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
Professor Robert Breunig
ANU Crawford School of Public Policy
Expertise: Tax, childcare, economic policy, social policy, productivity
E: Robert.Breunig@anu.edu.au
Associate Professor Ben Phillips
POLIS: The Centre for Social Policy Research
Expertise: Tax, welfare, housing, economics, cost of living
E: Ben.Phillips@anu.edu.au
Associate Professor Geoff Warren
ANU Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics
Expertise: Superannuation
E: Geoff.Warren@anu.edu.au
