Past events
Advancing Equal Outcomes in the Pacific
In this seminar we will hear from Leituala Kuiniselani Toelupe Tago-Elisara, director of the Pacific Community’s Social Development Programme (SDP). The SDP’s goal is to ‘advance gender equality,...
Book Launch - Pacific Women in Politics: Gender Quota Campaigns in the Pacific Islands by Kerryn Baker
Please join us at the book launch of Kerryn Baker’s Pacific Women in Politics: Gender Quota Campaigns in the Pacific Islands, University of Hawai`i Press.
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ANU DPA Bougainville Independence Referendum Symposium
On 23 November 2019, an unprecedented referendum will take place in Bougainville and Papua New Guinea, the culmination of more than 20 years of work towards peace. Bougainvilleans will be asked...
Bougainville Veterans' Listening Project
In this seminar researcher Amie Kirkham along with Bouganvillean civil society leaders Barbara Tanne and Rose Pihei will co-present the findings of a new report The Voices of Central Bougainville...
The Pacific step-up: Will it work and what happens if not?
As China’s influence extends into Australia’s immediate neighbourhood, Scott Morrison has quickly put Pacific affairs at the centre of his foreign policy. But is his embrace of the “Pacific family...
Ripples of Change in Grassroots Women Organising in Papua New Guinea: A Personal Perspective.
In this presentation Sarah Garap will reflect on her personal journey from grassroots activism to academia, drawing upon more than 30 years of active citizenship in the areas of human rights,...
Pacific Islands Political Studies Association (PIPSA) 2019 Conference
‘Democracy, Sovereignty and Self-Determination in the Pacific Islands’University of New Caledonia, Nouméa, 25-27 June 2019
From 25 – 27 June 2019, the ANU Department of Pacific Affairs...
Workshop: How does the ‘Pacific’ fit into the ‘Indo-Pacific’? The changing geopolitics of the Pacific Islands
In the 2013 Defence White Paper the Australian government identified its zone of strategic interest as the Indo-Pacific, which it described as ‘connecting the Indian and Pacific Oceans through...
Australia-China-Pacific Research Network Workshop
The establishment of a new network of analysts and academics from universities and research institutes in Australia, China and Pacific Island countries working on Pacific affairs will be discussed...
The use of foreign judges on courts of constitutional jurisdiction in Pacific island states
The global norm is that, by law or by practice, judges will be citizens of the state they serve. Yet, in Pacific island states foreign judges regularly sit on the highest domestic courts and...
