Money well spent

A generous gift from the Harold Mitchell Foundation to the Development Policy Centre at the Crawford School is set to help ensure that Australian aid is able to give more to countries in need.

Apply for a US political internship

Applications are now open for the 2013 American Australian Association-ANU Congressional Internship and Research Fellowship.

Government's Murray plan risky: academic

New research challenges the water saving measures that form a key platform of the Australian Government’s proposed Murray-Darling Basin Plan.

Where is it cheapest to cut carbon?

Researchers have shed some light on why some countries are more reluctant to agree to an international carbon price than others.

Future proofing

Dr Ken Henry is one of the country’s best-known public servants and a renowned economist. In his new role as Executive Chair of the ANU Institute of Public Policy at the Crawford School, he hopes to bring fresh thinking to the nation’s biggest challenges and opportunities, writes JAMES GIGGACHER.

Top thinker welcomed back

Former CEO of Universities Australia Professor Glenn Withers AO has returned to ANU as a professor of economics in the Crawford School of Public Policy.

Crawford cleans up in teaching awards

Crawford School of Public Policy staff and students have dominated the 2012 College of Asia and the Pacific (CAP) Teaching Awards, announced on Friday.

East Asia Forum Editor wins outreach award

Dr Shiro Armstrong of the Crawford School has won a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Public Policy and Outreach for his work on shaping public policy debates in the region, particularly through East Asia Forum.

Influential alumni gather for conference

The 20th Anniversary of the first Vietnamese PhD students to study at ANU will be marked on Thursday at conference with a difference – the influential thinkers it draws from the southeast Asian country are all ANU graduates.

Understanding Chinese aid

China will continue increase its aid to developing countries even while it tackles poverty on its own doorstep, according to a representative from the Chinese Government at the Crawford School’s Aid from Emerging Asia conference.