TY  - Thesis

AU  - Jonathan Schultz



PY  - 2012
T1  - Overseeing and overlooking: Australian engagement with the Pacific islands 1988-2007
PB  - University of Melbourne


DO  - https://doi.org/APO-32889
UR  - https://apo.org.au/node/32889

AB  - Since Europeans first settled in the region, Australian policy-makers have understood that Australia has security, commercial and humanitarian interests in the Pacific islands. Despite this stable set of interests, Australian engagement has fluctuated greatly; its underlying approach has changed regularly while Australian governments have found it difficult to achieve their objectives. Explanations for this paradox largely rest on the relative weakness of Australian interests and their consequent inability to drive policy in a sustained fashion.
ER  -