Past events
Looking at the Sky, Listening to the Sea: Customary Environmental Knowledge, Climate Change in the Pacific and Connections of Atmosphere, Oceans, Species and People
The Pacific Ocean is the largest single geographic feature on our planet. It represents half of the world’s oceanic area, occupies one-third of the earth’s surface and helps support hundreds of...
Beyond the Propaganda: What does Kim Jong Un want — and why?
For the first six years of his rule, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un defied and terrorized the world by building and testing ever-more threatening nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. Then, in late...
Hollywood in the Pacific: Sustainable film and television industry in the Pacific
In 2016, the Pacific Community (formerly Secretariat of the Pacific Community or SPC), with funding from the Commonwealth Foundation released a scoping report entitled ‘Cinema Pasifika: Developing...
The Negotiation of Identities among Cham Muslim Migrant Women in Urban Vietnam
Abstract Vietnam is a multi-ethnic nation and the Cham is one of fifty-four state-recognized ethnic groups. In this project, my main aim is to understand the life experiences of Cham [Sunni]...
Realism, Spinozism, Secularism
In Man, the State, and War (1959), Kenneth Waltz identifies Spinoza as a “first-image theorist.” Alongside Augustine, Niebuhr, and Morgenthau, Spinoza holds the view, according to Waltz, that “...
Which Frames Change Minds and Actions? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Australia
Australia is currently the only country in the world that requires offshore processing and mandatory detention of asylum seekers who arrive without a visa. The UN and various human rights NGOs...
What we know and where to go: lessons from partnering for peace in the Pacific Islands and a way forward
Volume V of the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post–Cold War Operations explores the Australian government’s efforts to support peace in the Pacific Islands from...
State-business relations in Post-Suharto Indonesia: The Political Economy of the Construction Sector in Jakarta
Abstract This study analyses the increasing economic role of the government in Jakarta under Governor Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and Governor Basuki T. Purnama (Ahok) during 2012–2016. It does so by...
Australia’s maritime frontier conflicts, 1802-1918
There’s a blind spot in our vision of Australian frontier conflict, and it has been more than fifty years since John M.R. Young observed that early British lodgements in eastern Australia had two...
WIIS: Shaping Australia’s Role in Indo-Pacific Security in the Next Decade
Frances Adamson has led the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as Secretary since 25 August 2016. From 2011 to 2015, Ms Adamson was Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China...
