Pacific Area
Article
Climate, coal, kinship and security in Australia-Pacific relations
Two leading Pacific academics, Tarcisius Kabutaulaka and Katerina Teaiwa, have criticised the security focus of Australia’s 'step up' in the Pacific.
Report
Averting crisis: American strategy, military spending and collective defence in the Indo-Pacific
This report argues that America no longer enjoys military primacy in the Indo-Pacific and its capacity to uphold a favourable balance of power is increasingly uncertain. It suggests that a strategy of collective defence is fast becoming necessary as a way of offsetting shortfalls in America’s regional military power and holding the line against rising...
Article
Pacific Island nations will no longer stand for Australia’s inaction on climate change
Australia ensured the official communique watered down commitments to respond to climate change, gaining a hollow victory.
Book
Labour lines and Colonial power: Indigenous and Pacific Islander labour mobility in Australia
This book argues that both Pacific Islanders and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands peoples made purposeful migrations to find work, reflective of rich cultures and histories of mobility.
Policy report
From Townsville to Tuvalu: health and climate change in Australia and the Asia Pacific region
This policy paper highlights evidence and case studies to show how climate and environmental change will affect human health in the Asia Pacific region. It also provides proposals for how Australian governments - federal, state and local - might respond to this challenge.