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58-642: The Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships (known colloquially as " Australs ") is an annual debating tournament for teams from universities in the Australasian region. It is one of the world's largest debating tournaments, second only in size to the World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC), the European Universities Debating Championships (EUDC) and one of the largest annual student events in

116-555: A day. ANU was ranked 30th in the world (fourth in Australia) by the 2025 QS World University Rankings , and 62nd in the world (fifth in Australia) by the 2023 Times Higher Education . In the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020, ANU was ranked 6th in the world for geology, 7th for philosophy, 8th in the world for politics, 9th in the world for sociology, 13th in the world for development studies and 15th in

174-555: A dozen current heads of government departments of Australia . The latest releases of ANU's scholarly publications are held through ANU Press online. Calls for the establishment of a national university in Australia began as early as 1900. After the location of the nation's capital, Canberra , was determined in 1908, land was set aside for the ANU at the foot of Black Mountain in the city designs by Walter Burley Griffin . Establishment of

232-457: A large number of potential members and train their debaters before they attended Australs. It was also thought that this would encourage a greater diversity of speaking styles, rather than what was seen as a very aggressive style by a number of very successful and talented Australian male debaters, and this would benefit all debaters and universities. The 'Martin Sorensen Trophy' is awarded to

290-474: A research partnership with Harvard University . The library of ANU originated in 1948 with the appointment of the first librarian, Arthur McDonald. The library holds over 2.5 million physical volumes distributed across six branches—the Chifley, Menzies, Hancock, Art & Music, and Law Libraries and the external Print Repository. Chifley and Hancock library are both accessible for ANU staff and students 24 hours

348-401: A venue for temporary exhibitions. There are four separate exhibition spaces, which provide the venues not only for exhibitions developed by or in collaboration with the university, but also to accompany major conferences and public events. The venue hosts both national and international exhibitions. Sidney Nolan 's panorama, Riverbend , which comprises nine panels, ís on permanent display at

406-466: A world-leading forum for exposition and analysis of the evolution, structure, and implications of our moral, social and political life." Its president is Nicholas Southwood and key people include Seth Lazar , Geoff Brennan , Bob Goodin , Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit and Michael Smith. The ANU College of Asia and the Pacific is a specialist centre of Asian and Pacific studies and languages, among

464-712: Is "Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea , and the neighbouring islands of the Pacific". The other, especially in New Zealand use, is just Australia and New Zealand. Two Merriam-Webster dictionaries online ( Collegiate and Unabridged ) define Australasia as "Australia, New Zealand, and Melanesia ". The American Heritage Dictionary online recognizes two senses in use: one more precise and the other broader, loosely covering all of Oceania . 28°06′32″S 146°18′00″E  /  28.10889°S 146.30000°E  / -28.10889; 146.30000 Australian National University The Australian National University ( ANU )

522-622: Is a public research university and member of the Group of Eight , located in Canberra , the capital of Australia . Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and institutes. Established in 1946, ANU is the only university to have been created by the Parliament of Australia . It traces its origins to Canberra University College , which

580-821: Is home to the National Computational Infrastructure National Facility and was a co-founder of NICTA , the chief information and communications technology research centre in Australia. Research groups in the college include Algorithms and Data, Applied Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems, Computer Systems, Computer Vision and Robotics, Data-Intensive Computing, Information and Human Centred Computing, Logic & Computation, Materials and Manufacturing, Semiconductor and Solar Cells, Software Intensive Systems Engineering, Solar Thermal Group, and Systems and Control. Disciplinary areas include theories, operations and research in engineering applications, with

638-729: Is roughly bisected by Sullivans Creek , part of the Murray–Darling basin , and is bordered by the native bushland of Black Mountain , Lake Burley Griffin , the suburb of Turner and the Canberra central business district . Many university sites are of historical significance dating from the establishment of the national capital, with over 40 buildings recognised by the Commonwealth Heritage List and several others on local lists. With over 10,000 trees on its campus, ANU won an International Sustainable Campus Network Award in 2009 and

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696-518: Is well known for its history of student activism and, in recent years, its fossil fuel divestment campaign , which is one of the longest-running and most successful in the country. The decision of the ANU Council to divest from two fossil fuel companies in 2014 was criticised by ministers in the Abbott government , but defended by Vice Chancellor Ian Young, who noted: On divestment, it is clear we were in

754-518: The ANU Library , the Menzies and Chifley buildings, opened in 1963. The Australian Forestry School, located in Canberra since 1927, was amalgamated by ANU in 1965. Canberra University College (CUC) was the first institution of higher education in the national capital, having been established in 1929 and enrolling its first undergraduate pupils in 1930. Its founding was led by Sir Robert Garran , one of

812-700: The Canberra bushfires largely destroyed the Mount Stromlo Observatory . ANU astronomers now conduct research from the Siding Spring Observatory , which contains 10 telescopes including the Anglo-Australian Telescope . In February 2013, financial entrepreneur and ANU graduate Graham Tuckwell made the largest university donation in Australian history by giving $ 50 million to fund an undergraduate scholarship program at ANU. ANU

870-1174: The East Asian Bureau of Economic Research , the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, the ANU National Security College, the East Asia Forum publication and a number of other centres. The Crawford School of Public Policy also hosts offices and programs for the Australia and New Zealand School of Government . Many high performing Year in Asia program students gain the opportunity to travel to an Asian country of their choosing to study for one year specializing in one Asian language. The college also has affiliation with Indiana University 's Pan Asia Institute. The ANU College of Business and Economics comprises four schools, which carry research and teaching in economics , finance , accounting , actuarial studies , statistics , marketing and management : Dedicated research centres within these schools include

928-538: The Manhattan Project ), and Sir Keith Hancock (the Chichele Professor of Economic History at Oxford ). The group also included a New Zealander, Sir Raymond Firth (a professor of anthropology at LSE ), who had earlier worked in Australia for some years. Economist Sir Douglas Copland was appointed as ANU's first Vice-Chancellor and former Prime Minister Stanley Bruce served as the first Chancellor. ANU

986-592: The National Museum of Australia and CSIRO are situated next to the campus. ANU occupies additional locations including Mount Stromlo Observatory on the outskirts of Canberra, Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran , a campus at Kioloa on the South Coast of New South Wales and a research unit in Darwin . The Drill Hall Gallery is housed a drill hall dating from the 1940s, for use in training soldiers for

1044-518: The Second World War , and as base for 3rd Battalion, Werriwa Regiment . The interior was remodelled to create an art gallery in 1984, and in 2004 the building was heritage-listed . Temporary exhibitions of the national collection were held in the hall while the National Gallery of Australia was being built. ANU took over the hall in 1992 to exhibit its own collection of artworks, and also as

1102-532: The University of Copenhagen and Trinity College Dublin in Europe. In 2017, Chinese hackers infiltrated the computers of Australian National University, potentially compromising national security research conducted at the university. The main campus of ANU extends across the Canberra suburb of Acton , which consists of 358 acres (1.45 km ) of mostly parkland with university buildings landscaped within. ANU

1160-540: The ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods. RSHA contains schools of Archaeology and Anthropology ; Art & Design ; and Literature , Languages and Linguistics , the latter of which include departments focusing on Linguistics & Applied Linguistics; English, Screen, Drama & Gender Studies; Languages & Cultures, and Classical Studies. RSHA also houses the ANU School of Music . In 2017, ANU ranked 6th in

1218-643: The ANU reported being sexually assaulted in 2016. Vice Chancellor Brian Schmidt apologised to victims of sexual assault and harassment. The ANU had funding and staff cuts in the School of Music in 2011–15 and in the School of Culture, History and Language in 2016. However, there is a range of global (governmental) endowments available for Arts and Social Sciences, designated only for ANU. Some courses are now delivered online. ANU has exchange agreements in place for its students with many foreign universities, most notably in

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1276-867: The Actuaries Institute Australia, the Institute of Public Accountants , the Association of International Accountants , the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute and the Statistical Society of Australia Inc. It also has membership of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The ANU College of Engineering, Computing, and Cybernetics is divided into three Research Schools, which study a range of engineering , computer science , and cybernetics topics, respectively. ANU

1334-783: The Asia-Pacific region, including the National University of Singapore , the University of Tokyo , the University of Hong Kong , Peking University , Tsinghua University and Seoul National University . In other regions, notable universities include Université Paris Sciences et Lettres the George Washington University , the University of California , the University of Texas , the University of Toronto in North America and Imperial College London , King's College London , Sciences Po , ETH Zürich , Bocconi University ,

1392-473: The Australian colonies) and New Zealand. Australasia found continued geopolitical attention in the early 20th century. Historian Hansong Li finds that against the backdrop of British colonialism, German geopoliticians considered "Australasia" as a counterweight to the former German South Sea Edge (Südseerand), both of which form the "Indo-Pacific" region. The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary gives two meanings of "Australasia". One, especially in Australian use,

1450-578: The Best Speaker prize twice, he won the tournament twice, was a runner-up once, and was selected in the Australian Test team 3 years in a row. After his death, it was decided that the Best Speaker award would be named in Sorensen's honour to preserve his memory, and it is common for Australs debaters to be educated about his legacy even now, 20 years after his death. The Trophy is awarded to the debater with

1508-636: The Drill Hall Gallery. ANU is governed by a 15-member Council, whose members include the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor . Gareth Evans , a former Foreign Minister of Australia , was ANU Chancellor from 2010 to December 2019 and Brian Schmidt , an astrophysicist and Nobel Laureate, served as Vice-Chancellor from 1 January 2016 to 1 January 2024. Evans was succeeded as Chancellor by a fellow former Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop , in January 2020. Schmidt

1566-700: The Pacific, Southeast Asia and South Asia. The college hosts a series annual and biannual updates, on various regions in the Asia-Pacific. The Crawford School of Public Policy houses the Asia Pacific Arndt-Cohen Department of Economics, the Asia Pacific Network for Environmental Governance, the Australia-Japan Research Centre, The Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament,

1624-787: The Pacific; and the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet, formerly the Regulatory Institutions Network), study of regulation and governance. The college also houses the Australian Centre on China in the World, the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre , and the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific , Australia. It has dedicated regional institutes for China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar,

1682-520: The Philippines. Prior to the inception of the AIDA in 1990, there were occasional problems with the administration and rule-format for Australs, as the running of the tournament was left to the host university, with a meeting of all Universities at the end of the competition. There was little ongoing supervision of the hosts, and adjudication standards varied widely. In 1992 an affirmative action requirement

1740-582: The Public Awareness of Science . Under the direction of Mark Oliphant , nuclear physics was one of the university's most notable early research priorities, leading to the construction of a 500 megajoule homopolar generator and a 7.7 megaelectronvolts cyclotron in the 1950s. These devices were to be used as part of a 10.6 gigaelectronvolt synchrotron particle accelerator that was never completed, however they remained in use for other research purposes. ANU has been home to eight particle accelerators over

1798-656: The Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) and Research School of Humanities and the Arts (RSHA). Within RSSS there are schools and centres dedicated to History , Philosophy , Sociology , Politics & International Relations , Demography , Arab and Islamic Studies, and European Studies , as well as the Australian National Centre for Latin and American Studies, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, and

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1856-608: The Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis and Research Centre; the Australian National Centre for Audit and Assurance Research; the ANU Centre for Economic History; the National Centre for Information Systems Research; and the ANU Centre for Economic Policy Research. The college is professionally accredited with the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia , CPA Australia , the Australian Computer Society ,

1914-519: The US Financial Direct Loan program. The RG Menzies Scholarship to Harvard University is awarded annually to at least one talented Australian who has gained admission to a Harvard graduate school. ANU and University of Melbourne are the only two Australian partner universities of Yale University 's Fox Fellowship program. ANU has exchange partnership with Yale University , Brown University , MIT and Oxford University , and ANU has

1972-529: The best speaker of the tournament. A prize recognising the tournament's best speaker was first awarded in 1989, however in 1994, it was renamed the Martin Sorensen Trophy in honour of the outstanding Monash University debater who died in July 1993 – only days after winning the award for the second time in a row. Sorensen was considered to be the finest debater of his generation. In addition to being awarded

2030-675: The drafters of the Australian Constitution and the first Solicitor-General of Australia . CUC was affiliated with the University of Melbourne and its degrees were granted by that university. Academic leaders at CUC included historian Manning Clark , political scientist Finlay Crisp , poet A. D. Hope and economist Heinz Arndt . In 1960, CUC was integrated into ANU as the School of General Studies, initially with faculties in arts, economics, law and science. Faculties in Oriental studies and engineering were introduced later. Bruce Hall,

2088-495: The emphasis on energy source. The ANU College of Law comprises the ANU Law School and ANU School of Legal Practice. The college covers legal research and teaching, with centres dedicated to commercial law , international law , public law and environmental law . In addition to numerous research programs, the college offers the professional LL.B. and J.D. degrees. It is the 7th oldest of Australia's 36 law schools and

2146-574: The first residential college for undergraduates, opened in 1961. The Canberra School of Music and the Canberra School of Art combined in 1988 to form the Canberra Institute of the Arts , and amalgamated with the university as the ANU Institute of the Arts in 1992. ANU established its Medical School in 2002, after obtaining federal government approval in 2000. On 18 January 2003,

2204-586: The highest total sum of speaker scores in the preliminary rounds of competition. It is considered to be the most prestigious individual award in Australasian debating. The best speaker in the Grand Final is awarded the 'Jock Fanselow Cup.' Jock Fanselow was a debating legend in New Zealand and Australasia. Representing Victoria University, he won Australs in 1980, and 1982 – the first person to win Australs twice. He

2262-655: The inaugural tournament at the University of Sydney in 1975, Australs has continually expanded the scope of its participants, now attracting around 300 competitors each year from around the Asia-Pacific region. Australs was significantly modernised in 1993 when a new constitution was introduced by then AIDA President. The Constitution provided for standard rules of debate and adjudication, and provided for extended voting rights for non-Australian and New Zealand participants. Currently teams come from Australia, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Russia and

2320-426: The introduction of the affirmative action requirement, the first women's meeting was held to discuss ways to combat the problem. At that time the participation rate had risen to 21%, with the introduction of a number of universities as first-time participants. Few women were represented in the finals, however. The intention behind the introduction of the rule was that it would encourage universities to promote debating to

2378-613: The largest collections of experts in these fields of any university in the English-speaking world. The college is home to four academic schools: the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy , a research intensive public policy school; the School of Culture, History and Language, for studies of Asia-Pacific people and languages; the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs , covering politics and international affairs of Asia and

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2436-506: The right and played a truly national and international leadership role. [...] [W]e seem to have played a major role in a movement which now seems unstoppable. As of 2014 ANU holds investments in major fossil fuel companies. A survey conducted by the Australian Human Rights Commission in 2017 found that the ANU had the second-highest incidence of sexual assault and sexual harassment. 3.5 per cent of respondents from

2494-668: The term (as French Australasie ) in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes (1756). He derived it from the Latin for "south of Asia " and differentiated the area from Polynesia (to the east) and the southeast Pacific ( Magellanica ). In the late 19th century, the term Australasia was used in reference to the "Australasian colonies". In this sense it related specifically to the British colonies south of Asia: New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia, Victoria (i.e.,

2552-415: The tournament is awarded the "Martin Sorensen Trophy", and the best speaker of the Grand Final is awarded the "Jock Fanselow Cup". The most recent edition of Australs was held by EduDrift in partnership with Multimedia Nusantara University . The tournament was hosted in Jakarta, Indonesia . The current champions are Oliver Hervir, Sophie Shead and Udai Kamath of the USU, University of Sydney Union . Since

2610-417: The tournament is awarded the 'Boby Andika Ruitang Memorial Trophy'. The trophy was introduced after Boby's passing in 2021 to commemorate their exceptional contribution to debate in Asia and support of ESL speakers in global debating. Kuhan Karttikeyn Sourodip Paul Australian National University (Australia) Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines) Australasia Charles de Brosses coined

2668-478: The university was disrupted by World War II but resumed with the creation of the Department of Post-War Reconstruction in 1942, ultimately leading to the passage of the Australian National University Act 1946 by the Chifley government on 1 August 1946. A group of eminent Australian scholars returned from overseas to join the university, including Sir Howard Florey (co-developer of medicinal penicillin ), Sir Mark Oliphant (a nuclear physicist who worked on

2726-423: The world for linguistics . A 2023 study by Times Higher Education reported that ANU was the world's 27th (first in Australia) most international university. In the 2022 Times Higher Education Global Employability University Ranking, an annual ranking of university graduates' employability, ANU was ranked 35th in the world (first in Australia). Australian National University Students' Association (ANUSA)

2784-410: The world for politics, 8th in the world for Social Policy and Administration and 11th in the world for development studies. The college is also home to the Australian Studies Institute. The college's School of Philosophy houses the ANU Centre for Consciousness, ANU Centre for Philosophy of the Sciences, and ANU Centre for Moral, Social and Political Theory, an organization whose purpose is to "become

2842-426: The world. Australs follows the Australia-Asian Debating format (three speakers plus replies), rather than the British Parliamentary Style used at WUDC. It is held every year in early-July under the auspices of the Australasian Intervarsity Debating Association (AIDA) . The host university is selected a year before at a meeting of the Council of the Australasian Intervarsity Debating Association. The best speaker of

2900-534: The years and operates the 14UD and LINAS accelerators. Brian Schmidt (astrophysicist at Mount Stromlo Observatory ) received the 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on the accelerating expansion of the universe. At the end of 2018, ANU recorded an endowment of A$ 1.8 billion. ANU is a member of the Group of Eight , Association of Pacific Rim Universities , the International Alliance of Research Universities , UNESCO Chairs , U7 Alliance, Winter Institute. and Global Scholars Program. ANU participates in

2958-425: Was best speaker in the Grand Final of both years. Unfortunately, ill health plagued Jock since birth and a suppressed immune system saw him contract a virus which led to his death in January 2006 at the age of 48. Jock's debating teammates, friends, and family donated a cup in his name and it was first presented at Australs 2006, held at Jock's home university, Victoria University of Wellington. The best ESL speaker of

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3016-428: Was established in 1929 and was integrated into ANU in 1960. ANU enrols 13,329 undergraduate and 11,021 postgraduate students and employs 4,517 staff. The university's endowment stood at A$ 1.8 billion as of 2018. ANU counts six Nobel laureates and 49 Rhodes scholars among its faculty and alumni . The university has educated the incumbent Governor-General of Australia , two former prime ministers , and more than

3074-499: Was established in 1948 as a result of the vision of Nobel laureate Howard Florey . Three further Nobel Prizes have been won as a result of research at JCSMR—in 1963 by John Eccles and in 1996 by Peter Doherty and Rolf M. Zinkernagel . The ANU College of Science comprises the Research Schools of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, and Physics ; Fenner School of Environment and Society; Mathematical Sciences Institute; and Australian National Centre for

3132-400: Was introduced to ensure that at least one third of each University's contingent must be female, unless the circumstances could be justified. This was prompted by the poor representation of female debaters at Australs. In 1990 only 8% of all speakers eligible to make the finals at Australasian championships were female, although women were over-represented as adjudicators. In 1991, the year before

3190-414: Was originally organised into four centres—the Research Schools of Physical Sciences, Social Sciences and Pacific Studies and the John Curtin School of Medical Research . The first residents' hall, University House , was opened in 1954 for faculty members and postgraduate students. Mount Stromlo Observatory , established by the federal government in 1924, became part of ANU in 1957. The first locations of

3248-446: Was ranked 2nd among Australian and 12th among world law schools by the 2018 QS Rankings . Students are given the chance to spend three weeks in Geneva concerning the institutional practice of International Law. The ANU College of Health & Medicine encompasses the John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR), ANU Medical School , National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, and Research School of Psychology. JCSMR

3306-440: Was ranked the 2nd greenest university campus in Australia in 2011. Four of Australia's five learned societies are based at ANU—the Australian Academy of Science , the Australian Academy of the Humanities , the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of Law. The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science and the National Film and Sound Archive are also located at ANU, while

3364-400: Was succeeded as Vice-Chancellor by cultural anthropologist and Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell in January 2024. ANU was reorganised in 2006 to create seven Colleges, each of which leads both teaching and research. Additional restructuring occurred in 2017, resulting in changes to the names and schools within the Colleges. The ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences is divided into

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