With growing rivalry between great powers in the Pacific, the Pacific Islands Forum is a chance to seek collective protection for the region’s small nations.
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With five key Pacific Islands leaders absent and China reportedly furious about Taiwan’s presence, the forum needs to find unity to remain effective.
Pacific nations will want Albanese to address the world’s key security threat – climate change.
With a new accord shaky, the situation in New Caledonia is loaded with insecurity and fear.
If Australia’s geo-strategic jostling in the Pacific is to work, we must show serious commitment to curbing global warming.
Members of the Pacific Islands Forum have a full agenda when they meet this week. Many hope squabbles over China and Taiwan will take a back seat to climate change.
Organised crime has taken root in the Pacific and many countries are struggling to respond.
Stopping bank closures in the Pacific is vital for the economic wellbeing of island communities and their trading relationships with other countries.
In 1997, John Howard chose expansion of Australian fossil fuels over Pacific concerns about climate change. Will Albanese finally mend the rift?
While the US is still primarily focused on countering Chinese influence in the region, Australia is making a real impact with its Pacific Engagement Visa.
In a crowded region, it’s hard to know who is doing what, and where. Effective statecraft, though, is not always measured by quantity over quality.
When Pacific Forum economic ministers meet today in Vanuatu, the region’s troubled airline sector should be high on their agenda.
Both Anthony Albanese and Jacinda Ardern had successful meetings at the Pacific Islands Forum – but there is much more work to be done in the region.
For Pacific Islands, climate change trumps all other threats to their security. While they welcome Australia’s new emission targets, this is an issue of survival that demands greater ambition.
University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and Assistant Professor Caroline Fisher discuss the week in politics
Word from The Hill: ‘Pandemic fatigue’ takes its toll of mandates and even the expert health advice
Michelle Grattan discusses politics with politics + society editor, Amanda Dunn
While Australia worries about Chinese influence, Pacific nations are more worried about climate change. By boosting climate ambition, Australia could be the region’s security partner of choice.
Pacific island nations are working to secure their people and infrastructure from cyber attacks.
A Zoom meeting, a leadership vote and five offended Micronesian states. The Pacific’s key international body is down, but not yet out.
Michelle Grattan reviews another busy week in federal politics, and take a look at the prime minister’s major speech on Monday on the public service.
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Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of International Relations, Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University
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Associate professor, Griffith University
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Professor of International Security, Adelaide University
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Adjuct Lecturer, Adelaide University
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Professor for Cybersecurity, Monash University
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Associate professor, Australian National University
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PhD candidate, Adelaide University
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Honorary Research Associate, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Professor of Law, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer in Security Studies, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Head of Research and Capacity Building, Oceania Cyber Security Centre, and Affiliate, Monash University
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Professor of Software Systems and Cybersecurity, Monash University
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Head of Pacific Research Program, Australian National University