@cathywilcox great listening to you and Fiona Katauskas talk with Mike Bowers yesterday as part of the Dismissal seminar at ANU.
#Cartoons #Dismissal #ANU #Canberra

This is my day tomorrow: a full day seminar at ANU which I'm very much looking forward to.

The Whitlam Dismissal and the Crisis of November 1975 Program Highlights

Session 1: The Double Dismissal: A 50 Year Reflection
Launch of a new commissioned paper by:
• Distinguished Whitlam Fellow, Emeritus Professor Jenny Hocking AM
• Dr Matt Harvey
Interlocutor: Honorary Professor Esther Anatolitis (RMIT University)

Session 2: The Dismissal from Below
Launch of a new commissioned paper by:
• Distinguished Whitlam Fellow, Professor Frank Bongiorno AM
• Dr James Watson
Interlocutor: Professor Michelle Arrow (Macquarie University)

Session 3: The Crisis of November 1975 and the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government
Facilitated panel discussion featuring:
• Distinguished Professor George Williams AO (Vice-Chancellor, Western Sydney University)
• The Hon Mark Dreyfus KC MP (Member for Isaacs; former Commonwealth Attorney-General)
• The Hon Justice Michael Lee (Federal Court of Australia)
• Julia Baird (ABC journalist, broadcaster, author)
• Troy Bramston (Whitlam Biographer, Journalist, The Australian)
• The Hon Amanda Vanstone AO (former Liberal Senator for South Australia)
Interlocutor: Professor Mark Kenny (ANU)

Session 4: Drawing the Divide: Political Cartoons and the Dismissal
• Mike Bowers in conversation with Cathy Wilcox and Fiona Katauskas
• Featuring historical and contemporary political cartoons reflecting on the Dismissal

Presented by:
• The Whitlam Institute within Western Sydney University
• The Australian Studies Institute, Australian National Univesity

#TheDismissal #Whitlam #ANU #Canberra #Australia #History #Politics

I just got a tour of the National Computational Infrastructure building in #Canberra (at #ANU) and please excuse me while I just admire all the pretty lights and big machines and how many terabytes of data they can process 24/7

Aviation weather for V.C. Bird International airport in St. John's area (Antigua and Barbuda) is “TAPA 041500Z 09009KT 060V130 9999 SCT018 29/23 Q1016 NOSIG” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/tapa/en #vcbirdinternationalairport #airport #stjohns #antiguaandbarbuda #tapa #anu #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek vl

@cheryanne ANY TOTP MFA app will work with ANU logins. What does this mean? It means nearly any open source authentication helper app for Android or IOS will do the job, securely and reliably.

#ANU #MFA #EMail

If anyone has an ANU email and was told you will only be able to use Microsoft authenticator. This is incorrect.
#ANU #Email #MFA #Australia

🌡️ The Lancet's ‘Countdown on Health and Climate Change’ report states that globally, failure to curb the warming effects of climate change has seen the rate of heat-related deaths surge 23% since the 1990s

Experts from #UQ #ANU #Flinders #CharlesSturtUni #UTS respond

✨Follow the link for more information and to read the commentary✨
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/expert-reaction-inaction-on-climate-change-could-be-paid-for-in-millions-of-lives-each-year

#science #research #stem #facts #knowledge #sciencefacts #climatechange

The official ads are now out for the #ANU #Logic Summer School, to be held in #Canberra , Australia from 1-12 December. https://comp.anu.edu.au/lss/

Paraphrasing a bit to fit in a toot:

OVERVIEW

The ANU Logic Summer School is an annual event that offers a two week long programme of lectures on modern logic, the foundational discipline of the information sciences. Topics include not only the science of reasoning but also computability theory, type theory and other tools for understanding processes, declarative programming, automatic proof generation, program verification and much more. The school is primarily geared at late undergraduate and masters students, but is open to all, including postgraduate and PhD students, postdocs, and participants from industry.

PROGRAMME

Week 1:
John Slaney (ANU): Foundations of Metalogic
Michael Norrish (ANU): Computability and Incompleteness
Peter Baumgartner (CSIRO): Overview of Automated Reasoning
Liam O'Connor (ANU): Introduction to Interactive Theorem-Proving with Isabelle

Week 2:
Sonia Marin (Birmingham): Intuitionistic Modal Logic
Chelsea Edmonds (UWA): Advanced Isabelle for Software Verification
Cláudia Nalon (Brasília): Resolution for Modal Logics and its Implementation
Gillian Russell (ANU): Barriers to Entailment
Vineet Rajani (UNSW): Modal Type Theories and Logical Relations

ORGANISATION

The logic summer school is organised by Ranald Clouston, Peter Hoefner, and Michael Norrish. Please direct all enquiries to lss.comp@anu.edu.au

One for the #RSE crew - @jamessmithies is hiring for a Research Fellow (Computational Methods) at #ANU - 2 year fixed term

Focus on computational methods to support #DigitalHumanities

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4313700832

#FediHired
#GetFediHired
#HigherEd
#AcademicJobs
#FediHire
#FediHire_au

The fluff has started to fly. It is time for University students to start worrying about their exams.

#ANU #ExamTimeIsComing

At the Senate's Estimates today, #Bishop waxed lyrical about the funds she has personally brought into ANU from Philanthropists in WA and elsewhere (Over $60M). She also mentioned that in 2019 ANU's financial position was 'vastly' better (ie. before she took it over), and then COVID happen, nasty Covid made everything dearer and expenditure went up apparently. That was the entire focus in her defence. Verbal garbage a plenty avoiding any explanations for ANU's alledged financial woes or financial mismanagement.

I blame the #Senators for focussing on #Bishop rather than ANU's financial management and the doctered financial reports which show something like $142M deficit whereas the auditors had the university with a $90M surplus. Instead they wasted time on student numbers, student scholarships and the Kambri programme giving Bishop the lecturn she gladly used. Funny though, she now accepts credit for turning the ANU financial position around -- just like that in a few months, magically.

It's also convenient that the interim #Vice Prof Brown was the one who made changes to RenewANU implementations in January this year and is implementing those changes now.

Senators Shoebridge, Pocock and Faruqui were more on point (on leadership and finance) and made a few uncomfortable - Covid came up again then. But it was confirmed that ANU's dire financial position stems from an accounting perspective (different buckets of money)

Giving Bishop an opportunity to glaze the cherry and ignore accounting practices was irresponsible. And I am now convinced that the Chancellor is blind to her conduct and reponsibility for the current state of affairs on campus.

Throughout, Bishop appears in total denial else she's completely clueless.

#ANU #RenewANU #SenateEstimates

If you haven't watched the Senate Estimate hearing with ANU Chancellors answering questions from Senators.

Link to Vid:

https://www.aph.gov.au/News_and_Events/Watch_Read_Listen/ParlView/video/3951731

C'mon #ANU, you can and should do better - sharp insight from @richarddenniss.bsky.social. #HigherEd #Australia #UniversityCrisis #AcademicSky

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m7o3mimorqbe7nyzd5sacj4c/post/3m2so5wzcos2f

Last night I went to the Canberra launch of Omar Musa’s new novel, Fierceland, at ANU.

He talked about the importance of languages and taking the time to get each word right, linking plot lines back to the mythology of Borneo and Malaysia, and growing up Muslim in Australia.

Can’t wait to read it. Poets often make excellent novelists, in my experience.

https://www.penguin.com.au/books/fierceland-9781926428796

#ANU #reading #bookstodon

An Audit of the #ANU accounts show … surprise, surprise … that there is no black hole and the ANU in fact made a $90m profit in 2023-24.

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Quote:

To be clear, as a government owned, not-for-profit entity, the ANU is under no pressure to maximise its profits so that it can maximise dividends paid to shareholders.

“On the contrary, when the ANU made a surplus of $89.9 million in 2024 it did so by spending less money on its students, staff and community than it received.

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#Auspol

https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-anus-hidden-90m-budget-surplus/

Here is a headline (a report title to be precise) which would cause no surprise in the private sector. This sort of thing goes on all the times in our capitalist markets. But to have it label a report on the financial books of a not-for-profit PUBLIC institution is the epitome of #Corruption #Ineptitude #Mismanagement and #Buffoonery

Cooking the books at the
Australian National University
An analysis of the ANU accounts

Read more:

https://australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/P1906-Cooking-the-books-at-ANU-Web.pdf

#ANU #BishopMustGo #ANUCouncil #NeoLiberalism #InUnity #JoinYourUnionNow #JasonClareMP @JasonClareMP

Is there anything else required to convince everyone that the issue and the problems with ANU’s alleged financial troubles is anything but financial trouble?

Squarely, this misapprehension is a direct result of #Mismanagement and #AccrualAccounting neither of which ought to be experienced by an education institution.

Time for the #Education #Minister Jason Clare to dismiss the council outright and implement the recommended fixes that were commended to him Including scrapping the #JobReadyGraduate #Morrison crap!

“If we believe the auditor, there is no crisis at the ANU. To be clear, as a government owned, not-for-profit entity, the ANU is under no pressure to maximise its profits so that it can maximise dividends paid to shareholders. On the contrary, when the ANU made a surplus of $89.9 million in 2024 it did so by spending less money on its students, staff and community than it received.” (Source: The Australian Institute)

#ANU #NeoLiberalism #Managerialism #BishopMustGo #ANUCouncil #AusPol #JasonClareMP #InUnity #JoinYourUnionNow

Read more:

https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-anus-hidden-90m-budget-surplus/

@treleanor 🤮 . . . so given the rate all levels of government are currently de-funding art and art programs, what make you all think that this will retain it's stated function?

May be that the money used to build something like this would be better spent on said cut art and creative programs in the first instance and encourage better use and access to existing venues with less corporate gouging ..

( Lookin' at you #ANU . . )

»The Australian National University (#ANU) is proud to announce the fulfilment of a $50 million Kambri Scholars Program endowment to provide life-changing support for Indigenous students, thanks to a landmark donation to the University.« https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/gift-of-education-secured-for-future-generations-of-indigenous-leaders

@keiran_rowell
Student bodies should be up in arms about this. Boycotting campuses, mounting protests and getting media involved much more, etc… Campuses in the late 60s and early 70s were much more militant and moved reforms as a result… Not harking to the past, but while I hear students and staff complaining, it’s all in private conversations and not ‘out there’ where it matters. Student unionism is also weaker (membership, not in courage) than it was previously. I don’t think we should sit back and rely on ‘officials’ to do the right thing here. That would be very foolish and stupid. But what else to do, you and I?

#TertiaryEducation #ANU #TEQSA #JasonClareMP #Managerialism #NeoClassicalEconomicsOut #JoinYourUnionNow #InUnity #ANUAlumni

Serious question: why is there no skate shop on campus at ANU? There’s enough skaters here to keep it busy. #canberra #ANU