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A new AAH and ACOLA research report shows outputs from Australia-Indonesia bilateral research relationships are at an all-time high — with benefits to global health, energy, trade, people and culture — with further opportunities to grow. At the same time, researchers warn we risk taking this relationship for granted, with a decline in language capability causing concern.

Few 55-year-old organisations could still yarn with a founding member — in that way the Academy of the Humanities is in a unique and privileged position. Now 97, Foundation Fellow Emeritus Professor Francis West FAHA shares a few curious stories of the early years of the Academy and reflects on where it is now.

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