• A turbulent year in Pacific politics

    Tess Newton Cain     |      December 21, 2018

    After decades of neglect, the Pacific region has been ‘rediscovered’ by strategists in Australia, the United States and elsewhere as the military threat and economic reality of China continues to grow.

  • The SMART way to help Pacific Islands lead climate action

    Aisha Reynolds     |      December 17, 2018

    The new SMART tool helps policymakers quickly identify potential co-benefits and trade-offs that need to be considered in planning to mitigate the devastating effects of climate change in the Pacific region.

  • The purposes of the Pacific pivot

    Graeme Dobell     |      December 4, 2018

    A ‘Pacific pivot’ that can marry Australia’s strategic needs with the fundamental needs of Pacific peoples will be a policy which benefits all stakeholders and so ensure enduring results.

  • Businesses can help Australia’s step-up in the Pacific

    Anthony Bergin     |      November 29, 2018

    It’s time to build a more deliberate and far-reaching partnership between government and business to further Australia’s interests in the Pacific.

  • Government assistance and e-commerce boost Pacific exports

    Caleb Jarvis     |      November 22, 2018

    New data shows the adoption of digital technology is boosting exports, and as APEC brings leaders to the Pacific, export confidence is high throughout the region.

  • Morrison’s Pacific pivot

    Michael Shoebridge     |      November 11, 2018

    The Prime Minister has outlined a practical and imaginative new strategy on issues critical to our region’s security, prosperity and people-to-people connections.

  • Low-cost tsunami warning system could help protect Pacific islanders

    Open Forum     |      November 6, 2018

    A simple and low cost early warning system could help prevent deaths in regions vulnerable to tsunamis after successful trials in Vanuatu last month.

  • Shorten proposes investment bank to help Pacific nations’ development

    Michelle Grattan     |      October 31, 2018

    Bill Shorten has hinted that Labor would set up a government-backed infrastructure investment bank to promote concessional financing for nation-building projects in the Pacific.

  • Connectivity is about people rather than technology

    Peter Kenilorea     |      October 25, 2018

    People in the Pacific have connected across its vast expanse for millennia, and new digital cables will help bring people together to create ‘One Pacific’ over time, strengthening traditional ties and human relationships rather than replacing them.

  • Australia steps up its Pacific pivot

    Joanne Wallis     |      October 22, 2018

    Australian strategic interest in the Pacific islands is reaching heights not seen since the international intervention in the Solomon Islands in 2003, thanks to increased concern about China’s growing presence in the region.

  • Passports remain a ticket to corruption in the Pacific Islands

    Anthony van Fossen     |      October 15, 2018

    Pacific island countries have sold passports to foreigners since the early 1980s and new ventures to raise revenue risk undermining the region’s domestic probity and international security.

  • Cultural diplomacy: Australia’s chance in the Pacific

    James Miles Carey     |      September 20, 2018

    With DFAT currently conducting a review of Australia’s Soft Power Review, what is the potential for cultural diplomacy to help Australia achieve its foreign policy goals in the region?