Weekly Pacific Bulletin
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Tropical Cyclone Tino storms through the region Tropical Cyclone Tino has made its way through the region. Severe weather… Read More
2020
Revisiting India’s growth slowdown: How bad is it?
YAN ISLAM | Abhijit Banerjee, who, along with Esther Duflo (his partner) and Michael Kremer, won the latest Nobel prize in economics, has… Read More
Losing hearts and minds
The weekend’s extraordinary election result in Taiwan underlines how quickly the times are changing in East Asia, and the need for Australians to rethink outdated… Read More
Media repression in Melanesia
I was exceptionally fortunate to be invited to attend the recent Melanesia Media Freedom Forum at the Griffith University’s South Bank campus in Brisbane. Read More
Regional wrap
The year 2020 has begun on a sobering note for Australia (and the world). While the world came close to facing the possibility of an… Read More
Weekly Pacific Bulletin
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Autonomous Government of Bougainville proposes constitutional amendments The Autonomous Government of Bougainville has proposed making changes to the Constitution… Read More
Beyond the theatre: Backstage engagement at the G20
The Group of Twenty (G20), the premier international forum for global economic cooperation is most recognisable through the prism of its annual Leaders’ Summit. This… Read More
Indonesia’s “Pacific elevation”: Elevating what and who?
In July 2019, at the inaugural Indonesian Exposition held in Auckland, New Zealand, Indonesia launched its ‘Pacific Elevation’, laying claim to a Pacific islands identity… Read More
A look back at 2019 in the Pacific
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Before we get too much further into 2020, here is a look back at six of the stories that… Read More
‘Like-minded states’ and the liberal international order
Allies and partners of the United States in Asia use ‘rules-based order’ rhetoric as shorthand for a US-led regional order. This has been a notable… Read More
