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ANU and USP Work Together to Advance Thinking on Ocean Governance
Oceans governance is a key priority area for the Pacific region. SSGM in partnership with the School of Government, Development and International Affairs at the University of the South Pacific held...
Neck ties, Victoria Beckham and ice cream: ANU pays tribute to Des Ball
He was well-known for being a ‘person of interest’ after revealing the development of the Pine Gap US base in the Northern Territory in 1966 and during the Cold War advised US President Jimmy Carter...
Urbanisation in Honiara: Managing Change, Creating Opportunities
Pacific Island cities have some of the most rapid rates of urbanisation in the world, attracting rural migrants, particularly youth, in search of a better life. Within these cities significant...
Malaysia Update Conference 2016: Najib’s Malaysia — A Crisis of Confidence?
The past year in Malaysia has been as tumultuous as any in sixty years of independence. At its epicentre has been the sovereign wealth fund 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), with debts of around...
The Nauru files provide the evidence. Malcolm Turnbull can never plead ignorance
The Nauru files paint a searing picture of the collapse of basic humanity in the detention centre. History is unlikely to be kind to those who endorsed it. The publication by the Guardian of a...
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,...
Gender, Violence and Development course
A new course, Gender, Violence and Development, designed by Jenny Munro and Richard Eves of SSGM, examines issues of gender and violence in the context of development in Melanesia and the Pacific....
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...
Digital Frontiers in the Asia-Pacific
From farmers who use Facebook in Myanmar to fighting Islamic militants with memes, digital spaces and technologies are transforming media, politics and society in Asia and the Pacific.They are also...
