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PM Jeremiah Manele calls for stronger collaboration at the first SINU-ANU Seminar to steer the Solomon Islands toward sustainable, inclusive growth. 💡🌏

Read more: shorturl.at/huKW3
#SINU #ANU #PacificPolicy
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Prime Minister welcomes inaugural SINU-ANU seminar on Sustainable and Inclusive Development
Prime Minister Hon. Jeremiah Manele has called for deeper collaboration between government, academia, and development partners to drive sustainable and inclusive growth in the Solomon Islands. Speakin...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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DPA scholars meet U3A Canberra learners! 📘 Our Pacific-focused researchers are engaging with a passionate over-50s community via U3A’s Friday class.

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#PacificPolicy #ANU #LifelongLearning
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Connecting Locally: DPA Academics and U3A Canberra | Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs
DPA staff are increasingly enjoying teaching the popular University of the Third Age Pacific Islands course at Hughes Community Centre in south Canberra.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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🚨 On 6 Nov, join our seminar “A Beginner’s Guide to Land Grabbing in Port Moresby” to unpack how NCD customary land has been alienated through legal avenues since 1975.

Register now: shorturl.at/Z5UGh
#PNG #LandRights #PacificPolicy

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A Beginner’s Guide to Land Grabbing in Port Moresby
Get tickets on Humanitix - A Beginner’s Guide to Land Grabbing in Port Moresby hosted by Department of Pacific Affairs, ANU. Coombs Building, Seminar Room F and Online. Thursday 6th November 2025. Fin...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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🌍 Join us 5 Nov 2025 for a key seminar on how service providers are helping #women access #justice in domestic violence cases in #Bangladesh & #PNG.

🧷 Register now: shorturl.at/V5Abv

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The Role of Service Providers in Helping Women's Access to Justice for Domestic Violence Cases in Bangladesh and Papua New Guinea
Get tickets on Humanitix - The Role of Service Providers in Helping Women's Access to Justice for Domestic Violence Cases in Bangladesh and Papua New Guinea hosted by Department of Pacific Affairs, AN...
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November 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Bougainville is approaching a pivotal moment in 2027.
Join our seminar on how leadership, governance and development will shape its path toward self-determination and stability.

🔗 Register here: shorturl.at/KkRiI
#Bougainville #Pacific #Leadership

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Bougainville at a Crossroads: Leadership, Development, and the 2027 Independence Horizon
Get tickets on Humanitix - Bougainville at a Crossroads: Leadership, Development, and the 2027 Independence Horizon hosted by Department of Pacific Affairs, ANU. Hedley Bull, Lecture Theatre 1. Thursd...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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🌏 Thank you to everyone who joined us in Port Moresby for the Pacific Research Program Networking Event!

A great evening of connection, collaboration & conversation on Pacific-led research.

#PacificResearch #PNG #PRP @anubellschool.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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The #Pacific is navigating major shifts — from #climate change to #security and #mobility. 🌊

Join leading voices from #Vanuatu, Australia & the region on 27 Oct for a vital discussion on Pacific-led solutions.

🔗 Register: shorturl.at/hIK7u
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Navigating Security, Mobility and Climate in a Shifting Region
Get tickets on Humanitix - Navigating Security, Mobility and Climate in a Shifting Region hosted by Department of Pacific Affairs, ANU. Coombs Building, Seminar Room D and Online. Monday 27th October ...
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October 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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📡 How effectively was the public informed when Samoa approved Starlink’s entry in 2025?

A new DPA In Brief explores media coverage & communication around this major policy shift.

🔗 Read here: shorturl.at/LmJ4m
#Pacific #Samoa #Starlink #Media
October 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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📣 Join us for Evaluating the #Bougainville Peace Agreement’s Implementation — a timely event examining the progress, challenges, and future of peace in Bougainville.

🗓 Date & time: Tuesday 14 October, 2.30 - 3.30 pm AEDT
🔗 Register now: shorturl.at/OpjdC

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Evaluating the Bougainville Peace Agreement’s Implementation
Get tickets on Humanitix - Evaluating the Bougainville Peace Agreement’s Implementation hosted by Department of Pacific Affairs, ANU. Coombs Building, Seminar Room E and Online. Tuesday 14th October 2...
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October 10, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Addressing disability inequality on polling day is just the beginning @anudpa.bsky.social
Addressing disability inequality on polling day is just the beginning - Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre
Disability equity in election processes is not just about voter participation but about equal citizenship throughout the electoral cycle, say Ellenah Kelly and Kerryn Baker.
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September 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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New article on PNG politics - practising politics in a disorderly democracy @anudpa.bsky.social
Practising Politics in a Disorderly Democracy
Taking as its starting point Ron May's scholarship on Papua New Guinea as a “disorderly democracy,” this article examines how politics is practised in the PNG Parliament. Using a case study of the ev....
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September 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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The festival of Pukpuk Treaty commentary continues, this time with PNG's Post-Courier, alongside my esteemed colleagues Oliver Nobetau and Richard McGregor of @lowyinstitute.bsky.social, and Michael Kabuni from @anudpa.bsky.social.

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Experts and China have their say on Pukpuk ‘signed’
MUCH has been said on the fringes of Papua New Guinea’s mutual defence treaty with Australia, with the document signed ratification will take place within both Parliaments of PNG and Australia.
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October 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Congratulations to Dr Sonia Palmieri on her new book, Gender Sensitive Parliaments in Fiji.🌺

It examines how global #gender norms intersect with local #politics to shape parliamentary change in #Fiji.

📖 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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October 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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On 23–24 Sept, DPA ran its third Understanding the Pacific course for DFAT staff in 2025 🌏

Participants explored Pacific history, diversity & key issues—climate, gender, development, China & Australia’s role.

#Pacific #climatechange #gender #development

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September 26, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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📢 DPA Seminar
Factors in Employment Policy in Solomon Islands & Vanuatu

Stephen Close shares PhD findings on how politics shapes overseas scholarships & labour mobility in two Pacific nations.

Register: shorturl.at/TofYk

#SolomonIslands #Vanuatu @anubellschool.bsky.social
Factors in Employment Policy in Solomon Islands and Vanuatu
Get tickets on Humanitix - Factors in Employment Policy in Solomon Islands and Vanuatu hosted by Department of Pacific Affairs, ANU. Coombs Building, Seminar Room D and Online. Tuesday 30th September ...
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September 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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#PNG celebrated 50 years of independence with the PNG: 50 for 50 Symposium at ANU—reflecting on the past & imagining the next 50.

Dive into the highlights here: shorturl.at/ogIwr

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September 18, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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“What we would like to see are whole-of-electoral-cycle initiatives that promote equal citizenship with a focus on disability,” says Ellenah Kelly and Kerryn Baker from our @anudpa.bsky.social.

Read here: devpolicy.org/addressing-d...

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Addressing disability inequality on polling day is just the beginning - Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre
Disability equity in election processes is not just about voter participation but about equal citizenship throughout the electoral cycle, say Ellenah Kelly and Kerryn Baker.
devpolicy.org
September 16, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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"In many respects it is a unique relationship [between ANU & UPNG] — a relationship between two national universities that is also, by extension, a relationship between two nations," says Sinclair Dinnen of @anudpa.bsky.social.

Read here: devpolicy.org/the-historic...

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The historical ANU-UPNG relationship - Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre
The story of the relationship between the two national universities is also the story of the relationship between two nations, says Sinclair Dinnen.
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September 16, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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📚 To mark #PNG50, a landmark new book has arrived.
Nearly 30 stories—authored by Papua New Guineans—spotlight teachers, academics, church leaders, and community figures who helped shape the nation since 1975.

Read more here: shorturl.at/fzfGq

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September 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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#PNG at 50!
This symposium asks: what lessons from the past will shape the next 50 years? Hear from diplomats, leaders, and academics as they confront challenges and chart a path toward PNG’s centenary.

#PNG50 #Pacific

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September 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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#PNG faces barriers to #women’s participation in politics & labour mobility. Join us for a seminar exploring how #migration, #politics & #gender intersect.

📢Speakers: Geejay Milli, Natasha Turia & Dr Mercy Masta
🔗 Info here: shorturl.at/pA8b7

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Gendered Experiences and Challenges in Political Participation and Labour Mobility in Papua New Guinea
Get tickets on Humanitix - Gendered Experiences and Challenges in Political Participation and Labour Mobility in Papua New Guinea hosted by Department of Pacific Affairs, ANU. Coombs Building, Seminar...
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September 3, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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From #Semey to the #MarshallIslands, #nuclear testing left enduring scars across Oceania & Central Asia. Civil society is leading the call for #justice.

👉Read the publication here: shorturl.at/BD3hE

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August 29, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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ANU & NUV students explored resilience and policy in #Vanuatu 🇻🇺 — learning from local leaders, building friendships & deepening #Pacific solidarity. 🌏

Read more ➡️ shorturl.at/WsbkL

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ANU Students Explore Resilience, Policy, and Pacific Solidarity in Vanuatu | Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs
ANU and NUV students joined a month-long course in Vanuatu, exploring resilience, policy, and Pacific solidarity through shared learning, local engagement, and climate-focused discussions.
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August 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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“Stablecoins are becoming more tightly regulated and, as a result, more credible as digital dollars abroad,” writes Monique Taylor in The Interpreter.
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/australia-s-stablecoin-opportunity-pacific
Australia’s stablecoin opportunity in the Pacific
Digital dollar tokens could revolutionise regional remittances, but only if Canberra helps shape a regulatory framework to dodge the scams.
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August 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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🔎 How do #women in the #Pacific perceive risks of #crime—both physical and online—and what strategies do they use to stay safe?

A new DPA In Brief shares insights from a pilot study across five Pacific countries.

👉 Read more: shorturl.at/L1Be6

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August 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM