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ItemSecuring the Narrative: How the Ausgrid Deal was a Tipping Point for Australian Media(Centre for China in the World, The Australian National University, 2023-10-16)Welcome, caution, or outright hostility – Chinese foreign direct investment has inspired a range of different reactions from politicians and businesses in Australia. this research looks back at key moments in a decade of Chinese FDI to pinpoint moments when media views toward China changed, and attempts to determine the factors behind such changes.
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ItemHollywood ending?(Mark Baker, 2021-04-30)Amid the relief at Joe Biden’s engagement with climate change, did we lose sight of what’s happening on the ground?
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ItemNot drowning, fighting( 2021-06-03)Have reporters’ cliches got in the way of understanding how Pacific islanders are dealing with climate change?
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Item‘The fear of this vaccine is real’: how Papua New Guinea’s Covid strategy went so wrong( 2022-12-02)Public confusion and distrust over vaccination have been fuelled by what experts say are crippling failures in authorities’ response to the pandemic
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ItemAid decamp(Schwartz Media, 2023-12-23)A decade after the merger of AusAID and DFAT, Australia ranks among the least generous nations in the world and a survey of politicians exposes how little aid matters to the parliament.
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ItemRansom enterprise(Morry Schwartz, 2023-03)By one measure, the trouble starts in October 2019. That’s when a gang of 18 Huli tribesmen from the Hela highlands raid a logging camp in the lowland forests of Papua New Guinea’s Western Province. The murders of a Chinese father and son, shot outside their store in the Makapa logging concession, are “an initial price-setting signal”, says Dr Michael Wood, a Queensland anthropologist who has worked with forest people in the region for 25 years.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableA Deep Wound: Interview with Felipe Gálvez on his debut film The Settlers (2023)(The Morning Star, 2024-02-15)Cristóbal Escobar speaks to filmmaker Felipe Gálvez about his debut film The Settlers and the massacre of the Selk’nam people in early 20th-century Chile.
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ItemClimate Justice in the Pacific(Morry Schwartz, 2023)The lack of global action on the climate crisis has left grassroots groups leading the fight against catastrophe in PNG. WITH THE OUTBOARD CRANKED UP, it takes about three hours to navigate from Kikori town downriver to the village of Veraibari on the Gulf of Papua. Skipper and spotter must pick a careful route through the meanderings of the delta, its murky avenues cutting through tangled green – a glimpse of the greatest expanse of mangroves in Papua New Guinea. Dodging driftwood, skirting sandbanks, they every so often throttle back to a crawl so as not to swamp the canoes of fishers and slow-lane commuters. https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2023/april/jo-chandler/climate-justice-pacific
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ItemNo Preview AvailableYes/No: Referenda and Mandates(Social Text Online, 2023-11-14)We are in the early stages of collaborative research into disaffection and cultural politics. Observing these referenda makes clear to us that passionate engagement and apathy are not polar opposites in the field of cultural politics. On the contrary, disaffection and rage are symptoms of the same estrangement from democratic norms. Rather than apply a model to these campaigns and results, we want to see what they can tell us about broader trends in contemporary political culture. We have however found some preliminary ways of thinking through the problem that may be helpful for others trying to work through similar challenges.
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ItemShouldering the weight of four million women: PNG elects its first female MP in a decade(Guardian News & Media Limited, 2022-08-08)Rufina Peter is just the eighth woman elected in Papua New Guinea. But the economist has been battling for her place in society since she was a child.