Past events
Launch of a series of short films from the PNG Family Protection Order Research Project
(L-R) Julien Barbara (DPA), Lindy Kanan (DPA), Judy Putt (DPA), Saskias Tameo (PNG Deputy High Commissioner), photo by Tanuj Parakh, DPA
To celebrate International Women’s Day in 2021, the...
Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs 2021 Orientation Session
Dr Mathew Davies, Deputy Director of Education, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, warmly invites all postgraduate students commencing their studies in the Graduate Diploma of...
OCIS 2020 - Save the Date - Oceanic Conference on International Studies
Held every two years, OCIS is the premier conference in international studies held in Australasia. It brings together scholars working across all fields of international studies, and is known for...
WEBINAR - Mobile telephones for public messaging: Did the referendum information hotline make a difference?
Last year, the people of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville voted overwhelmingly to break away from Papua New Guinea in a non-binding referendum. In the pre-referendum period, there was a...
Legitimacy Work’ and Transnational Policing: What does the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Island’s strategic narrative tell us about how interventions build legitimacy?
This research uses the concept of ‘legitimacy work’ to examine the construction of legitimacy through discourses, narratives and practices of transnational policing. An interpretivist approach is...
Education in the Pacific
In this panel senior public servants from the education departments of Fiji, Samoa and Vanuatu will discuss some of the key education challenges facing their countries and the Pacific generally,...
Women’s Leadership Initiative Lunch with Kessy Sawang
We are pleased to invite you to a Women’s Leadership Initiative Pacific Networking Lunch with Kessy Sawang. Kessy Sawang a Papua New Guinean advocate for social justice and empowerment of...
Security Challenges in Vanuatu: Planning for the Future
In this seminar hosted by DPA and the ANU Australia Pacific Security College, Vanuatu’s Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. Andrew Napuat will discuss Vanuatu’s first national security...
Book Launch: Conflict, Identity, & State Formation in East Timor 2000 - 2017
The ANU Department of Pacific Affairs (DPA) is pleased to host the launch of DPA PhD graduate James Scambary’s book; Conflict, Identity, and State Formation in East Timor 2000 – 2017.
This...
Another vote for independence: New Caledonia's second referendum on self-determination
The French Pacific dependency of New Caledonia will hold a second referendum on self-determination in September 2020. A meeting this month in Paris between the French government, the independence...
