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Australia’s one step forward, two steps back in the Pacific
BY JOANNE WALLIS In 2016, former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull expressed Australia’s commitment to a ‘step-change’ in its engagement with the Pacific Islands. The 2017 Foreign Policy White Paper...
Getting realistic about the South Pacific
BY JAMES BATLEY Advocates of stronger and more effective Australian engagement in the South Pacific face a couple of entrenched structural challenges. First, the region is hardly critical to...
When Australian nuclear weapons could make sense
BY STEPHAN FRüHLING What a way to start a year! The debate initiated by three former Australian deputy secretaries of defence—Hugh White, Paul Dibb and Richard Brabin-Smith—about the possibility of...
Turnbull Takes Part in Reinvigorated Pacific Islands Forum
Barring unforeseen circumstances – and these days perhaps one shouldn’t talk too soon – Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will fly to Samoa to attend the annual Pacific Islands Forum Leaders’ Meeting....
As RAMSI's costly Solomon Islands rescue mission ends, its gains may vanish swiftly
On Friday, one of Australia’s most significant, and expensive, foreign policy forays of recent times will come to an end. Over the last 14 years, more than $3 billion was spent on a tiny...
ANU graduates rated Australia's most employable
Graduates from The Australian National University (ANU) have been rated as Australia’s most employable graduates and among the most sought after by employers worldwide. The latest Global...
Jakarta bid queried
A Research Fellow at the Australian National University’s State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program, Stewart Firth, said Jakarta had misinterpreted Australia’s relationship with...
Advancing models of parliamentary gender quotas in the Pacific
Kerryn Baker, a Research Fellow at the Australian National University’s State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Programme, says while the Pacific has a long way to go, there are signs of...
Passing of HM King Bhumiphol Adulyadej
John Blaxland on ABC News 24 discussing the passing of HM King Bhumiphol Adulyade.
Organised crime in Pacific involves political elites: Report
A recently published discussion paper by the Australian National University (ANU) argues that the most significant organised crime in the Pacific involves the connection between political elites and...
