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New Research

Stronger, simpler, smarter ESOS: supporting international students

Stronger, simpler, smarter ESOS: supporting international students

09 March 2010This final report of the Baird review of the legislation that governs international education in Australia makes a series of recommendations for reform.

Indonesia and Australia: time for a step change

08 March 2010The relationship with Indonesia is one of Australia’s most important but it is still not on a firm footing, argues Fergus Hanson.

International student security: globalization, state, university

07 March 2010This paper looks at the human security of students who cross national borders for the purposes of formal study.
Perspectives on migrants 2010

Perspectives on migrants 2010

05 March 2010Issues and debates relating to migrants, ethnicity and migration programs are common place within the Australian political and media landscape.
Here to help: Strengthening the Defence role in Australian disaster management

Here to help: Strengthening the Defence role in Australian disaster management

02 March 2010This report argues that it's time for Defence to more fully incorporate domestic disaster assistance tasks as part of its core business.
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Defence

Security challenges facing Papua New Guinea and the island states of the southwest Pacific: volume 2

26 February 2010This report identifies the way the region's physical and geographical characteristics combine with limited human and technological capacity to reduce the ability of states to undertake day-to-day policing and respond effectively to large scale breakdowns in law and order.

Securing Australia, protecting our community

23 February 2010This white paper sets out the Australia government’s counter-terrorism objectives and the means by which it will pursue them.

International issues

Commentary

Obama's healthcare gamble

24 February 2010This week's summit aims to save the embattled healthcare overhaul through the power of persuasion, writes Lesley Russell in Inside Story

Australia-India: reimagining the relationship

15 February 2010First, let’s fix the education problems. Then let’s recognise the missing link in Australia–India relations, writes Robin Jeffrey in Inside Story

London transported

09 February 2010The congestion charge has helped make London work better for commuters, writes Frank Bongiorno in Inside Story
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Audio

Asia pivots

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05 March 2010Dr Malcolm Cook speaks on how Asia's continental and horizontal dimensions are reasserting themselves - in ways that question Australia's place in Asia.

The challenges of food security

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05 March 2010While expanding populations and the changing diets that accompany growing wealth have put greater strain on lagging gains in food production, climate change and environmental degradation are slowly contaminating food supplies and eroding agricultural productivity.

Pacific Islands & New Zealand

Capturing the year 2009. Writing from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

Capturing the year 2009. Writing from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

28 January 2010This anual selection of writing from ANU scholars ranges from archaeology, linguistics and history to economics, political science and security policy.

Time for a fresh approach: Australia and Fiji relations post-abrogation

28 January 2010This report argues that it is time for the Australian Government  to prepare the grounds for a more effective re-engagement with the Government of Fiji.

Video

Kevin Rudd's world: The PM's global hopes and fears

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19 February 2010After two years and a whirlwind of activity in Australia's foreign affairs, what has Kevin Rudd got to show for all his global ambition?

Flight of the Kiwi: Perspectives on migration from Aotearoa/New Zealand

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15 January 2010Why are so many New Zealanders flocking to Australian shores, and what can be done to stop the so-called Kiwi ‘brain drain’?

Asia

Websites

SettlerColonialStudies.org

06 February 2010This Melbourne-based blog is concerned with promoting a global appraisal of Indigenous issues, and an interdisciplinary approach to the phenomenon of settler colonialism and its consequences.

Compendium: Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe

27 November 2009This site provides quick facts and figures, cultural policy profiles and updates, key documents, profiles of the national experts, partner resources on 41 countries within Europe.

Asia Beyond Conflict

20 November 2009This site examines recent conflicts over history in Northeast Asia, and explores possible paths towards reconciliation.

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Jobs

Events

Seminar
Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change - Australian book launch, talk, Q&A
24 Mar 2010
Sydney
Conference
ACOSS National Conference 2010: A vote for equity
25 Mar 2010 - 9:00am - 26 Mar 2010 - 5:00pm
Canberra
Conference
International Conference on eDemocracy 2010
6 May 2010 - 7 May 2010
Vienna

Books

TV drama in China

  • Edited by Ying Zhu, Michael Keane, and Ruoydon Bai
  • University of Washington Press
This collection of essays brings together the first comprehensive study of TV drama in China. Examining in depth the production, distribution, and consumption of TV drama, an international team of experts demonstrate why it remains the pre-eminent media form in China. The collection explores industry dynamics, how TV dramas are marketed and consumed on DVD, and China's aspirations to export its television drama rights.
Introducing China: the world's oldest great power charts its next comeback

Introducing China: the world's oldest great power charts its next comeback

  • Ron Huisken
  • ANU E Press
China's transformation has been patiently, methodically and very deliberately constructed by a leadership group that has equally carefully protected its monopoly on power.

Noticeboard

Quarterly ACCESS - youth publication of the Australian Institute of International Affairs - relaunched.
30 January 2010

ACCESS Victoria, the youth network of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, has relaunched its publication, Quarterly Access (QA). A key aim of QA is to provide an opportunity for undergraduates, postgraduates and young professionals interested in international affairs to get their ideas published.

Hard copies are being distributed to university libraries and other student hotspots around Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra. QA is also available online at http://quarterlyaccess.typepad.com/

Policy Guides

Combating trafficking in persons: A handbook for parliamentarians

The handbook, produced by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, contains a compilation of international laws and good practices developed to combat human trafficking.

18-09-09

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