Region | Papua New Guinea and the Pacific

View of hte Pacific with the words

Griffith University is aligned with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and committed to tackling global challenges around partnerships for the goals.

Our Pacific Outlook blog features expert commentary and informed analysis on the latest Pacific news and affairs.

Australia’s Pacific mindset: From Federation to today

IAN KEMISH AM | In the final instalment of this three-part series, Ian Kemish outlines how a concern to manage international security threats was firmly embedded in Australian national thinking in the early post-federation years, how events since then have served to entrench this view, and why it is important that we change.  Read More

Pacific Outlook Bulletin | 30 August

TESS NEWTON CAIN  |  Vanuatu political impasse continues The Opposition has won its case in the Supreme Court which found that a recent motion… Read More

Australia’s Pacific mindset: Isolation and multiple threats

IAN KEMISH AM | In this second instalment of a three-post series, Ian Kemish outlines how a public mindset overwhelmingly focused on ‘strategic denial’ developed in Australia through the 19th century. Read More

Labour mobility impacts on Vanuatu’s tourism industry: Understanding employer perspectives

LEWIS ROTHWELL | This blog post is the first output of a project led by Dr Kirstie Petrou and Dr Tess… Read More

Strategic denial and Australia’s Pacific mindset

This is the first in a three-part series in which GAI Industry fellow Ian Kemish AM explores the history of Australia’s public mindset towards the Pacific. Read More

Pacific Outlook Bulletin | 16 August

TESS NEWTON CAIN  |  Finance Ministers meet in Fiji The Forum Economic Ministers Meeting has concluded in Fiji. This is one of the standing… Read More

Putting PNG’s police shortage on the agenda

SEAN JACOBS  | A recent string of gruesome kidnappings of young women in Papua New Guinea’s Highlands have highlighted not only the persistent… Read More

Chinese policing deals in the Solomon Islands

JON FRAENKEL | Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has used Chinese money to shore up his government. Whether alignment with Chinese interests… Read More

Pacific Outlook Bulletin | 2 August

TESS NEWTON CAIN  |  Marshall Islands accepts Compact funding offer In something of an about turn, the government of Marshall Islands has agreed to… Read More

A call to collective action

SPEECH BY DAME MEG TAYLOR | Gathering on this land, we acknowledge the Yugara and Turrbal peoples, the traditional custodians. We sincerely respect their… Read More


Subscribe to our blog

Simply enter your email to receive articles as they are published.