ANU has launched a two-year Indigenous Australian Reconciliation Action plan, to replace the 2009 version, which stalled at a university-wide level after three years. According to the university the new one, “signals an ambitious systemic shift in the university’s culture and its engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.”

The plan will apply across the university, with specific goals including, making ANU ‘the university of choice’ for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island students and ensuring their completion rate matches the university-wide figure, creating ATSI research fellowships as a means towards an “indigenous professoriate,” nearly tripling ANU employment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people to 2 per cent of staff and ensuring professional development for teaching staff so that they include Indigenous perspectives in the curriculum.