This brief is part of our Australia-France Indo-Pacific Strategic Environment Grant project funded through the @academyoftheAcademy of the Social Sciences in Australia & Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and published by ANU's The Migration Hub

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We argue the core focus of these clusters should be to allow people to make their own choices about their mobility futures - including moving between and across clusters where needed.

Hopefully, it's helped, in even a small way, to reshape thinking around what Australia's relationship with states in Oceania should look like.

Article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks to the co-editors @joannewallis.bsky.social and @timlegrand.bsky.social, the whole team at @austjia.bsky.social , the exceptionally thoughtful reviewers, and everyone who has read, shared, written about, or taught with the article since it was published.

And if any country does not take climate change seriously, it does not take out adaptation and our survival seriously, then we have to question their relevance to us as a partner."

We don't see this geopolitical competition between China and the US as being relevant to our national needs. What we need is, we need security for our people from the greatest threat we have, which is climate change.

That’s been made clear by our Pacific leaders; so anyone who helps us to address climate issues, that takes their responsibility for emissions seriously, that tries to transition their economy, that helps us adapt; we will reach out to them as partners and that's basically it.

Regenvanu - "For countries in the Pacific, you know, the biggest threat to our security is climate change. It's not another country, it's not conventional military threats, it's climate change. "

Justice Wigney, said it would parliament (or the High Court) to change things. Otherwise, he said the applicants and others only had recourse to advocacy, protest and the ballot box.

The irony, of course, being that governments ignore the first and are making the second illegal.

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