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Author Archives: Lowy Institute
Kevin Rudd, you’re not a good friend of PNG
Martyn Namorong is a multi-award winning writer, blogger and television presenter.
In March 2008, Kevin Rudd made his first official visit to Papua New Guinea to build ties, the first such visit by an Australian prime minister in 11 years. Out of that … Continue reading
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In conversation: Philippa Brant on China’s aid to the Pacific
Earlier this month, Myer Melanesia Program Director Jenny Hayward Jones released a new paper, Big Enough for all of us: Geo-Strategic Competition in the Pacific Islands, challenging assumptions about what China is up to in the Pacific.
Jenny’s wor… Continue reading
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Defence White Paper: French Pacific power ignored
Denise Fisher is a Visiting Fellow at ANU’s Centre for European Studies. Her book, France in the South Pacific: Power and Politics, will soon be published by ANU E press.
The Australian Defence White Paper 2013 was not the only such document … Continue reading
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Australia-PNG: Maintaining momentum
Papua New Guinea has been the beneficiary of an awful lot of love from Australia of late.
Our nearest neighbor has been treated to visits from the Governor-General, new Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs Matt Thistlethwaite, Foreign Aff… Continue reading
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Four fascinating years in Timor-Leste
Gordon Peake is a Visiting Fellow at the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program, ANU.
Interpreter readers with long memories may remember my name from a series of pieces on Timor-Leste posted a year or so ago. The articles included pro… Continue reading
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Fiji constitutional referendum? Unlikely
Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has released the much anticipated Fiji draft constitution, an extensive revision of the 2012 draft released by the Constitutional Commission, led by international constitutional law scholar Yash Ghai.
Fiji police brutality: World is watching
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Graphic video footage of police brutality in Fiji which emerged last week is attracting international condemnation. The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has condemned the incident and the New Zealand parlia… Continue reading
A fair indictment of Australia’s Pacific policy?
Professor Wadan Narsey is an Adjunct Professor at The Cairns Institute.
Jonathan Schultz’s recently completed PhD thesis, Overseeing and Overlooking: Australian Engagement with the Pacific Islands 1988-2007, presents a somewhat scathing indictment of A… Continue reading
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PNG plans military build-up, but why?
Donald Gumbis is a Lecturer in political science at the University of Goroka and an intern at the Lowy Institute.
Papua New Guinea’s Defence Minister Dr Fabian Pok has announced that PNG plans to build up its military capacity from around 2000 per… Continue reading
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China and India in the Fiji equation
Professor Wadan Narsey is an Adjunct Professor at The Cairns Institute.
The Fiji regime’s clear breach of its own decrees and roadmap to democracy, as described in my previous post, has unsettled traditional donors and must also create s… Continue reading
Why the Fiji regime rejected the draft constitution
Professor Wadan Narsey is an Adjunct Professor at The Cairns Institute.
As Jenny Hayward-Jones described last Friday, the Fiji regime’s promise of a transparent and accountable ‘roadmap’ to parliamentary elections in 2014, following the writi… Continue reading
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PNG: The six billion kina question
Graeme Smith is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the China Studies Centre, University of Sydney and a Visiting Fellow with the State, Society and Governance Program in Melanesia Program, ANU.
When I penned Are Chinese Soft Loans Always a Bad Thing? for Th… Continue reading
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Interview: Prime Minister Peter O’Neill
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Senator Bob Carr is in Papua New Guinea this week on his first visit as Foreign Minister. He is attending the Australia-PNG Ministerial Forum and touring the Highlands region with his counterpart, the PNG Foreign Ministe… Continue reading
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Papua New Guinea makes its own way on ICT
Stephanie Lusby is a PhD Candidate at ANU. Her research focuses on how public health messages are translated and applied by men in Papua New Guinea.
The two papers released recently by Danielle Cave and Sarah Logan are part of a gro… Continue reading
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Sharp Talk on PNG corruption
Sarah Logan is a PhD candidate at the Australian National University.
Did you know there is a Moresby street in Cairns? Pundits have long joked that it indicates the importance of illicit PNG money to the Cairns property market, with some claiming… Continue reading