Transcript of a lecture by Atholl Anderson on the Indo-Pacific Prehistoric Colonization Project and the Asian Fore-Arc Project. The data obtained in these projects will become the essential nuts and bolts in constructing the prehistory of Indo-Pacific colonization, but they also provide a point of entry into larger questions about how the cultural landscape of...

Globalisation represents a lot of different things to a lot of people: parliamentarians, journalists, academics, business leaders and bureaucrats among them. This paper identifies and analyses key questions about globalisation, giving special emphasis to its particular implications for the Asia-Pacific region and for Australia.

In 1837 a British Parliamentary Select Committee published a report on the situation of Aboriginal peoples across its colonies around the world including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Pacific Island Countries, South America and Africa. A second version of this report was subsequently produced in the same year with additional comments by the Aborigines Protection Society...