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Submarine cables keep the world connected. They can also help us study climate change.
Cynthia Mehboob writes in The Conversation

Securing Australia's new Pacific Engagement Visa costly, slow and 'stressful', applicants say
Natasha Turia speaks to ABC Digital

Nauru sells citizenship to fund climate change mitigation
Dr Henrietta McNeill speaks to The Japan Times

Provocative Tasman Sea war games highlight need to bolster defence spending, warn experts
A/Prof Andrew Carr speaks to The Nightly

Nauru sells citizenship to help fund relocations as sea levels rise
Dr Henrietta McNeill speaks to The Guardian

Middle powers such as Australia relied on the rules-based order, but that's in doubt. Here's what we must do
Prof John Blaxland writes in The Guardian

Pacific ‘not a chessboard for global competition’: Dr Aqorau
Dr Henrietta McNeill is quoted in Islands Business

Chinese flotilla exposes navy in 'chronic decline'
EmProf Hugh White speaks to Australian Financial Review

Upcoming events
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Tue, 18 Mar 2025

Reverting to the Norm: Locating the Parliament in Indonesias Democratic Regression

Department of Political and Social Change Seminar Series 
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Kansafra elementary school, Syrian Arab Republic 2020 © UNICEF/UNI310496/Suleiman
Kansafra elementary school, Syrian Arab Republic 2020 © UNICEF/UNI310496/Suleiman
Mon, 24 Mar - Fri, 28 Mar 2025

Photographic Exhibition: Towards Alternative Humanitarian Visuals?

We know that humanitarian images often foreground suffering.
Flowers and offerings of a table in Myanmar household
Image by May Co Naing
Tue, 25 Mar 2025

Conflict-related sexual violence in Myanmar: The role of the state

ANU Myanmar Research Centre Dialogue Series 2025

Timezone: 5.30–6.30pm AEDT, 1–2pm MMT, 8.30-9.30am CEST 
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Tue, 25 Mar 2025

Welcome to Kawthoolei: Rethinking Rebel Governance as Bricolage

Department of Political and Social Change Seminar Series
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Kansafra elementary school, Syrian Arab Republic 2020 © UNICEF/UNI310496/Suleiman
Kansafra elementary school, Syrian Arab Republic 2020 © UNICEF/UNI310496/Suleiman
Wed, 26 Mar 2025

Exhibition Opening: Towards Alternative Humanitarian Visuals?

We know that humanitarian images often foreground suffering.
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Saving the World Webinars
Thu, 27 Mar 2025

Compound exposure in the Pacific: how our solution to climate change could make things worse

Episode 18 of the Saving the World webinar series features Associate Professor Nick Bainton, Dr Éléonore Lèbre and Dr Emilka Skrzypek.
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A western view of the US-Mexico border in San Diego
A western view of the US-Mexico border in San Diego
Thu, 27 Mar 2025

Smuggling the Border in: rethinking the borderspace in a new cooperation landscape

The recent reconfiguration of international cooperation agreements derived from the suspension of US aid programs, coincided with the launch of a series of drastic anti-immigrant measures by the US
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Pursuing Morality: Buddhism and everyday ethics in Southeastern Myanmar 
Fri, 28 Mar 2025

Book Party - Pursuing Morality

Book Party - Pursuing Morality: Buddhism and everyday ethics in Southeastern Myanmar 
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News & stories
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Dr Eve Warburton
Dr Eve Warburton

CAP researcher awarded prestigious fellowship for new research on critical mineral markets in Asia
Dr Eve Warburton was awarded a prestigious Westpac Research Fellowship to positively contribute to the future of Australia through her work in critical minerals research.
Bachelor of International Security Studies and Bachelor of Arts student Lourdes Bernadette.
Bachelor of International Security Studies and Bachelor of Arts student Lourdes Bernadette.

Degree at CAP prepares student for Asia-Pacific career
Lourdes Bernadette is learning an Asian language, undertaking exchange in the Asia-Pacific region and networking with leading experts in their field preparing her for a career in the Asia Pacific.
Bachelor of Asian Studies and Bachelor of International Security Studies student Amandine Ong.
Bachelor of Asian Studies and Bachelor of International Security Studies student Amandine Ong.

Flexible double degree supports student to find passion for Asia Pacific
Discover how the flexibility of Amandine Ong's Flexible Double Degree allowed her to explore and deepen her interests in the Asia Pacific
Young Kanak, Lifou, Loyalty Islands 2018 (Nic Maclellan)

Recordings now available – State of the Pacific 2024
Listen to the panel discussions from State of the Pacific 2024.
  • Politics
  • Security
  • Labour Migration
  • Governance and regulation
  • Geopolitics and Regionalism
  • Gender
  • decolonisation
  • environmental challenges
Jane Fisher (Chief Investigator) CI Bina D’Costa (ANU Chief Investigator), Noeleen Hayzer (a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations) Zoe Bell (ANU CEVAW Fellow), Sajeeda Bahadurmia (Chair, ARWDO)
Jane Fisher (Chief Investigator) CI Bina D’Costa (ANU Chief Investigator), Noeleen Hayzer (a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations) Zoe Bell (ANU CEVAW Fellow), Sajeeda Bahadurmia (Chair, ARWDO)

ANU brings a displacement and migration focus to the Centre of Excellence on the Elimination of Violence against Women
A world-first launched!
Dr George Carter stands with the student delegation in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Dr George Carter stands with the student delegation in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Supporting Indigenous voices: ANU students attend COP29 for ‘once-in-a-lifetime' learning experience.
A delegation of First Nation and Pacific Islander students joined ANU researchers at COP29 last month in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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Alumna Molly-Anne Bond is positively shaping Australian democracy through diplomacy and public service
Discover how studying a Master of Diplomacy helped Molly-Anne realise her goals to work in the Australian Public Service and create better outcomes for Australia.
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Marcus Mietzner is Australia's top researcher in Asian studies and history
The Australian has announced Bell School's Marcus Mietzner as Australia's top researcher in Asian studies and history

Past events
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Wed, 12 Mar 2025

The Prabowo Presidency: An early assessment

Indonesia’s new president, Prabowo Subianto, has been in office for a little over four months now.
Wed, 5 Mar 2025

Reimagining the International Rules Based Order from a Blue Pacific Perspective

Join Sione Tekiteki and Joel Nilon as they examine the Blue Pacific's role in the future of the international rules based order.
Tue, 4 Mar 2025

Repositioning the Bamar identity in the context of establishing a Bamar state

ANU Myanmar Research Centre Dialogue Series 2025

Timezone: 5.30–6.30pm AEDT, 1–2pm MMT, 8.30-9.30am CEST 

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Tue, 4 Mar 2025

Voices of the Future: Young Women Shaping the AUKUS Discourse

In anticipation of the release of the Women in Strategic Policy (WISP) program’s first policy paper and ahead of International Women’s Day, WI

Tue, 25 Feb 2025

The Great Disorientation

What happens when humanity’s progress accelerates beyond its capacity to adapt?
Thu, 20 Feb 2025

Pathways to a wellbeing-centred economy

Episode 17 of the Saving the World webinar series features Dr Sabrina Chakori, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at CSIRO.
Wed, 19 Feb 2025

Supercharging Adaptation: AI and War in the 21st Century

This lecture is part of the 'AI, Automated Systems, and the Future of War’ Public Lecture Series
Fri, 14 Feb 2025

War, Memory and Diplomacy: Celebrating the career of Professor Joan Beaumont

Professor Emerita Joan Beaumont AM, FASSA is one of Australia’s foremost historians of the experience, memory and commemoration of war, as well as of Australian d
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