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Recent fieldwork with returning seasonal workers in Vanuatu
In May 2016 over 600 workers from New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme and 64 workers from Australia’s Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) returned to Vanuatu. As a part of her nine-...
Small-scale mining in Bougainville: Impacts and policy responses
This Report presents interim research findings from a research project on small scale mining (SSM) in Bougainville. An Interim Report has been produced because while the project is still under way,...
Do No Harm: Understanding the relationship between women’s economic empowerment and violence against women in Melanesia
Richard Eves has just returned from five weeks in Papua New Guinea, where he undertook fieldwork as part of the project, Do No Harm: Understanding the Relationship Between Women’s Economic...
New York launch of policy proposals for strengthening the rule of law through the UN security council
On Friday 11 March Dr. Jeremy Farrall and Prof. Hilary Charlesworth launched the Policy Proposals on Strengthening the Rule of Law through the UN Security Council. The Policy Proposals were developed...
APCD launches new ARC project: leveraging power and influence on the UNSC
The Asia Pacific College of Diplomacy (APCD), based at the ANU Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific, officially launched a four-year Australian Research Council Discovery Project last Friday, 19...
Tackling the region’s policy challenges
New issue of Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies confronts key policy concernsFrom simmering tensions in the South China Sea, to fledging democracy in Myanmar, and developing relationships between...
First-hand transformation
Last week, fellow students from the Australian National University and I visited two villages in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwaddy Region to deliver stationery to primary school children. The trip also provided...
The Protest Years: The Official History of ASIO, 1963-1975
In collaboration with the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House we invite you to hear the author talk about the findings in this latest book “The Protest Years”, the second volume of...
Pacific Research Colloquium 2016
Pacific Research Colloquium 2016 25 January - 5 February 2016 The Pacific Research Colloquium (PRC) is one of the most significant activities that the SSGM program organises each year. It is part...
PRC2016: General Information
Basic Information About the 2016 PRC Dates for the 2016 PRC The PRC will be held from the morning on Monday 25th January, and end on the evening of Friday 5th February 2016. Participants must...
