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Climate Financing expected to be main agenda of Pacific Islands at COP29
Salā Dr George Carter speaks to ABC Pacific Beat

Trump win, 1.5 C warming breach weigh on UN COP climate finance talks
Salā Dr George Carter speaks to Benar News

Fake kidnaps and real dangers of disinformation in Pacific Islands
Dr Anouk Ride writes in Lowy Institute - The Interpreter

Harris and Trump’s closing message to voters couldn’t be further apart
Wes Widmaier speaks to The New Daily

Why is the Commonwealth so popular, despite its colonial legacy?
Dr George Carter speaks on the ABC Pacific Beat

King Charles III arrives to Samoa
Salā Dr George Carter speaks to ABC Pacific Beat

China’s government is about to spend big on stimulus – can it turn around the country’s sluggish economy?
Wenting He and Wesley Widmaier write in The Conversation

Jokowi was once seen as Indonesia’s ‘new hope’. Instead, he leaves a legacy of democratic backsliding
Edward Aspinall writes in The Conversation

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Matthew Paul Argall, Australian Flag and Australian Aboriginal Flag, Flickr.
Matthew Paul Argall, Australian Flag and Australian Aboriginal Flag, Flickr.
Thu, 21 Nov 2024

Defence Indigenous Engagement: Advancing Reconciliation or Militarised Inclusion?

Department of International Relations 75th Anniversary Public Lecture Series
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Gender Institute Provided
Mon, 25 Nov 2024

Advancing Afghan Women's Rights

Hosted by the ANU Gender Institute

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Ratchada Train Night Market, Bangkok by aotaro, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
Tue, 26 Nov - Wed, 27 Nov 2024

ANU Southeast Asia Institute Student Research Symposium 2024

Connecting Southeast Asian Research: Grounded Empirics, Textured Theory, and Regional Methodologies
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Fri, 29 Nov 2024

The Embodied Political Ecology of Global Solar PV Supply Chains

China, Development and International Order Seminar Series
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Saving the World Webinars
Thu, 5 Dec 2024

Hope and possibility beyond the doom and gloom: Hothouse 2024 wrap

It has been another concerning year for climate change, inequalities and health.
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Hedley Bull Building
Wed, 11 Dec 2024

Neither Confirm Nor Deny: National Security Secrecy and Australia's Liberal Democracy

PhD Oral Presentation 
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LSIS Rikki-Lea Phillips, Royal Australian Navy. "HMAS Stuart RPD 24-4 Exercise Malabar 24 Sea Phase." © Commonwealth of Australia 2024. Accessed via Department of Defence Imagery Gallery.
LSIS Rikki-Lea Phillips, Royal Australian Navy. "HMAS Stuart RPD 24-4 Exercise Malabar 24 Sea Phase." © Commonwealth of Australia 2024. Accessed via Department of Defence Imagery Gallery.
Thu, 12 Dec 2024

Japan's new Foreign and Security policy directions: Implications for the Japan-Australia partnership

This panel discussion is hosted by the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre
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ABC Pacific Beat Podcast
ABC Pacific Beat Podcast

Why is the Commonwealth so popular, despite its colonial legacy?
Political analyst, Sala Dr George Carter from the ANU says the Commonwealth has made positive impact for member states, offering development, democratic and humanitarian support to countries.
  • Pacific
George Carter at COP29 prelim AOSIS meeting
George Carter at COP29 prelim AOSIS meeting

Trump win, 1.5 C warming breach weigh on UN COP climate finance talks
Pacific nations want clear commitments at COP29 on loss and damage funds for climate adaptation from high-emitters. George Carter speaks to Sera Sefeti from Benar News.
  • Climate Change
  • COP 29
United Nations Development Programme Nigeria
United Nations Development Programme Nigeria

From outback kitchens to the United Nations: Discover how the ANU Master of Diplomacy prepared Sally for her dream career
Discover how studying a Master of Diplomacy at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific led alumna Sally Swinnen to work for the United Nations in Nigeria.
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Environmental conflicts and building peace: Pacific perspectives
On Tuesday 2 September, 11 participants who are citizens of eight countries participated in a workshop to share knowledge and experiences related to the theme: Environmental Peacebuilding.
Amy Wardell
Amy Wardell

Forging global leaders: CAP student secures prestigious cybersecurity internship in Estonia
First-year Master of International Law and Diplomacy student Amy Wardell is undertaking a five-week cybersecurity internship in Estonia. Find out more about her journey.
The book launch of ‘The Global Politics of Sexual and Reproductive Health’ at ANU. From left to right: Bonney Corbin, Dr Faustina Pereira, Noelene Nabulivou, Dr Maria Tanyag, and Prof Bina D’Costa.
The book launch of ‘The Global Politics of Sexual and Reproductive Health’ at ANU. From left to right: Bonney Corbin, Dr Faustina Pereira, Noelene Nabulivou, Dr Maria Tanyag, and Prof Bina D’Costa.

Researching the global politics of sexual and reproductive health with responsibility: Dr Maria Tanyag publishes her first book
Dr Maria Tanyag’s new book examines everyday inequalities in sexual and reproductive health and rights.
  • Sexual health
  • Human Rights
  • gender equality
First Nations elders, organisers, and participants of the Indigenous Diplomacy workshop
First Nations elders, organisers, and participants of the Indigenous Diplomacy workshop

First Nations Elders share diplomacy practices in 2024 Indigenous Diplomacy Workshop
Learning about the traditions and ongoing life of Indigenous sovereignties in Australia and their distinct ways of making diplomacy were explored in the three-day Indigenous Diplomacy workshop in July
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • Diplomacy
Joko Widodo and Marcus Mietzner 2023
A/Prof Marcus Mietzner and Jokowi in Jakarta's Merdeka Palace in October 2023.

Interviewing Indonesia’s outgoing President: A/Prof Marcus Mietzner writes about Jokowi
For A/Prof Marcus Mietzner, writing a book about Indonesia’s long-time president was a career highlight, but also posed significant challenges.
  • Indonesia
  • Democracy and elections
  • president
  • biography

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Tue, 19 Nov 2024

Nancy Munn in Central Australia: Gendering the field and how what mattered and who mattered changed

A public lecture brought to you by Fulbright Australia, the ANU Gender Insitute, the School of Culture, History & Language and the ANU First Nations Portfolio
Fri, 15 Nov 2024

Symposium: Contemporary issues in a land of climatic extremes

Symposium: Contemporary issues in a land of climatic extremes
Fri, 15 Nov 2024

Evolving Ideas and Norm Contestation: China as a Global Sovereign Debt Manager

China, Development and International Order Seminar Series
Fri, 15 Nov 2024

What do we see when we ask “What is China?”

Graduate Research and Development Network on Asian Security (GRADNAS) Seminar Series

Thu, 14 Nov 2024

2024 Mongolia Update: Contemporary issues in a land of climatic extremes

Contemporary issues in a land of climatic extremes
Thu, 14 Nov 2024

The unruly dead: spirits, memory and state formation

This event launches and discusses Lia Kent’s new book, The unruly dead: spirits, memory and state formation in Timor-Leste.
Tue, 12 Nov 2024

Borderlands Citizenship: Displaceability and Recognition at the Thai-Myanmar Border

Department of Political and Social Change Seminar Series
Wed, 6 Nov 2024

When the Ordinary Becomes Radical: Indigenous Participation at the UN

2024 Coral Bell School Annual Lecture on Indigenous Diplomacy.
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