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Dr Andrew Hughes from the ANU Research School of Management and Mark Kenny, Senior Fellow, ANU Australian Studies Institute debate the start of the 2019 Federal Election campaign and ask how dirty the tactics might be.

It’s 6am and Dr Renae Domaschenz is on Lake Burley Griffin, coaching some of Australia’s best rowing athletes. By 8am she’s hitting the pavement, getting her cardio done. By 9am she’s in her lab, continuing the search for cancer cures. In this video, find out what motivates Renae to push the limits on the lake and in the lab.

This inaugural lecture is the fourth in the Gender Institute lecture series Inspiring Women of ANU, which celebrates female academic staff at ANU who were appointed to Level E in the last round of promotions.

Sharon Bessell is Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy, where she is Director of Gender Equity and Diversity and heads the Children's Policy Centre. She co-leads the ANU Individual Deprivation Measure (IDM) Program (with Associate Professor Janet Hunt). Sharon's research interests revolve around issues of social justice and human rights, and focus on two broad areas. The first is social policy, social justice and the human rights of children. The second area of Sharon's work is the gendered and generational dimensions of poverty.

Imagine a future where simple, wearable devices provided truly personalised medicine. These "micro-wearables" would offer personalised diagnostics across a range of diseases. Far from science fiction, ANU Entrepreneurial Fellow Professor Mark Kendall is developing these micro-wearables now, with the potential to improve the lives of millions of people around the world.

His company, WearOptimo is working on devices that range from low-cost, disposable devices for short-duration measurements, through to integration in the next-generation smart watches for continuous monitoring in precision health. This is an opportunity to hear directly from Professor Kendall about how these devices will offer minimally-invasive, pain-free health monitoring and enhance our quality of life as we move into the fourth industrial revolution.

Vice-Chancellor's Entrepreneurial Professor Mark Kendall is an internationally-recognised leading innovator in producing technology solutions to global health problems; and a translator of commercial technologies focusing on delivery of drugs to skin and skin-based disease diagnostics. This has culminated from more than 20 years of experience researching, developing and innovating, authoring more than 200 refereed publications, and being an inventor on more than 130 patents (of which more than 70 have been granted so far).

While at the University of Oxford, Mark contributed as an inventor into the biolistics technology, which was commercialised with PowderMed (the technology transfer company) purchased by Pfizer for $400 million in 2006. Then he invented the Nanopatch, and in 2011 founded Vaxxas to commercialise the Nanopatch. In recognition of his innovation and translation, Mark has received numerous awards. These include: the 2016 CSL Young Florey Medal, a 2015 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, a 2012 Rolex Laureate, The Australian Innovation Challenge winner (2011), the Eureka Prize for Interdisciplinary Research (2011) and Younger Engineer of Britain (2004).

The biggest Supermoon of 2019 will rise above the horizon on 19 February. But what exactly is a Supermoon? Find out more from ANU astrophysicist Dr Brad Tucker.

The Chinese government is under increased pressure over its archipelago of mass detention camps, holding approximately one million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (also known as East Turkestan). Beijing has responded with a flurry of contradictory rhetoric, first denying that the camps exist, then portraying them as voluntary vocational training centres, and most recently describing them as a ‘counter-terrorism’ measure that Europe should learn from.

In this public seminar, a panel of experts and practitioners focus on some of the core questions surrounding the evolution of this crisis. Why is this happening now? How many people are in the camps? What are the implications for the Uyghur people, China and the international community?

An international team of researchers have uncovered the remains of a new species of human in the Philippines, proving the region played a key role in hominin evolutionary history.

The new species, Homo luzonensis, is named after Luzon Island, where the more than 50,000 year old fossils were found during excavations at Callao Cave.

This event is a signature activity of the National Security College (nsc.crawford.anu.edu.au), a unique joint initiative between the Australian National University and the Australian Government. In keeping with the College mission, the conference bridges scholarship, policy, business and the wider community. It also draws on international partnerships, essential for security in a connected world. So it is suited equally to participants from government, universities, industry and civil society.

An international team of scientists have detected two stars colliding in space about 500 million years ago.

The discovery comes just weeks after the restarting of the most sensitive scientific instrument ever built – the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO).

ANU Climate Update 2019 presents an overview of how our climate is changing and how we are responding to these changes in Australia and around the world.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg discusses the opportunities and challenges for Australia and NATO during a speech at the Institute for Regional Security and the Australian National University's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Canberra.

Researchers at the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences are confident they now have direct proof the Earth’s inner core is solid.

Using new techniques to detect shear waves, or “J waves” in the inner core – a type of wave which can only travel through solid objects – this study will lead to a better understanding of how our planet was formed.

Dr Lesley Seebeck and Professor Roderic Broadhurst discuss ongoing cyber security issues, emerging threats and the policy imperatives for Australian government agencies.

This interview was recorded on 21 March 2019.