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Cost of living pressures behind Dictionary’s Word of the Year 

Widespread dissatisfaction with the cost of groceries at Australia’s largest supermarkets has led ANU word nerds to pick Colesworth as their Word of the Year for 2024. 

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Aussie social cohesion steady, but strained by cost-of-living pressures 

Financial stress continues to impact Australians’ sense of belonging, but the country’s social cohesion has held strong over the past 12 months, according to a major study from ANU and the Scanlon Foundation Research Institute. 

Dr Ben Shaw inspects a pottery shard from PNG. He has recently returned burial pots to PNG

Reuniting communities in Papua New Guinea with long-lost burial pots

Stolen pottery provided Dr Ben Shaw the opportunity to right historical wrongs and create an archaeological field school to teach ethical research practice.

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Love the nightlife? ANU students have an app for that

Tech entrepreneurs Dexter Todd and Oliver Bagin have launched Bardar to spare us from disappointing nights out.  

Seeking undivided loyalty: can motherhood and military life coexist?

ANU PhD scholar Maureen Montalban says we need to reimagine military service and identity to be more inclusive of motherhood.

Family vlogging is an ethical dilemma we can’t unsubscribe from

ANU researcher Faith Gordon unpacks the viral psychological spiral faced by children at the centre of family vloggers channels. 

‘Horrifying’ trend: women are quitting jobs due to pressure from male partners

In an eye-opening address at ANU, Dr Anne Summers AO warned of the severe impacts of domestic violence on women’s employment.

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