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
Region-PNG and the Pacific
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 Queensland defence and security perspective
PETER LAYTON | Australia has no international land borders but only just. Queensland’s Saibai Island is only 4km from Papua New Guinea… Read More
Pacific Outlook Bulletin | 19 July
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Prime Minister Sogavare returns from China The Prime Minister of Solomon Islands, Manasseh Sogavare, has returned from a trip… Read More
Pacific Outlook Bulletin | 21 June
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Troubled times for James Marape In Papua New Guinea, Prime Minister James Marape is having a rocky time of things. Read More
Pacific Perspectives on the World three years on: progress, problems, and gaps
JAMES COX | In 2019 I convened a team of local and Australian researchers (led by Griffith’s Tess Newton Cain) who brought together the… Read More
Pacific Outlook Bulletin | 7 June
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Great Council of Chiefs convenes In Fiji the Bose Levu Vakaturaga (Great Council of Chiefs) has convened… Read More
