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Our academics regularly provide analysis, opinion and commentary in the media.

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Daily Cuts - China places yet another defence ministry personnel under investigation
A/Prof Graeme Smith speaks to CNA - Channel News Asia

Reforms in PNG politics: political stability vs independent legislature
Michael Kabuni writes in Devpolicy Blog

Shock rebel offensive threatens Assad regime - Syrian militants seize Aleppo
A/Prof Matthew Sussex speaks with ABC Radio PM program

Taiwanese President's US trip prompts Chinese fury
A/Prof Graeme Smith speaks to ABC AM

ABC The World Monday 2/12/2024
A/Prof Graeme Smith speaks to ABC The World

Analysis: Nuanced Diplomacy Helps Taiwan Maintain Pacific Ties
A/Prof Graeme Smith speaks to TaiwanPlus

China denounces Taiwan president’s Pacific tour as he stops off in Hawaii and Guam
A/Prof Graeme Smith quoted in ABC News

Pacific Engagement Visa in PNG: more time needed to secure jobs
Natasha Turia writes in Development Policy Blog

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Yoshihiro Komori
Yoshihiro Komori

Yoshihiro Komori - step out of your comfort zone on exchange and internships
Coming from Japan to Canberra on exchange, as part of a dual degree, and taking on an internship at AIIA opened up a world of interests and future options for Yoshihiro Komori.
  • International relations
  • International organisations
The photos of three women spliced together, side by side. Maria Tanyag, Siobhan McDonnell and Sofia Samper Carro
DECRA winners, left to right: Maria Tanyag, Siobhan McDonnell and Sofia Samper Carro

Outstanding CAP researchers win DECRA funding
Exceptional academics from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific win lucrative early career research funding to support their significant projects.
  • Academic
  • Archaeology
  • Asia
  • Pacific
  • Public policy
  • International relations

Southeast Asianists: Scholarly Profile – Trailer
The 'Southeast Asianists: Scholarly Profile' trailer is here. It is three days until the ANU Southeast Asia Institute's eight-episode interview series is released. Join us for the launch on Sept 7.
Harold Crouch (left) with PhD students, Marcus Mietzner (now an Indonesia specialist based at ANU) and Inwon Hwang (South Korea's leading Malaysian politics expert), c. 1997.
Harold Crouch (left) with PhD students, Marcus Mietzner (now an Indonesia specialist based at ANU) and Inwon Hwang (South Korea's leading Malaysian politics expert), c. 1997.

Vale Emeritus Professor Harold Crouch
Emeritus Professor Harold Crouch, who died on 27 August 2023, was an eminent scholar of Indonesian and Malaysian politics, and of Southeast Asia generally.
IMMERSIA 2022

Ready. Steady. Immerse: Immersia 2.0
What do you get when you put calligraphy, dance, song, music, painting, wellbeing, books, exhibitions, photography, languages, trivia, gaming, and art together?
Denghua Zhang 3.jpg

Boyer Prize 2022 goes to Dr Denghua Zhang
Zhang's article ‘China’s influence and local perceptions: the case of Pacific island countries’ has won the revered Boyer Prize for 2022.
  • Pacific
  • Security
Kim Rubenstein and James Blackwell

It’s not just the Vibe: It’s the CONSTITUTION
New podcast series leading up to the referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, explores a whole lot more than just “the vibe” of the Constitution. Hosted by James Blackwell & Kim Rubenstein.
  • Indigenous Peoples
Museum, cemetery, etc. at Manus High School’, c. 21 Sep 1973. Photographer Bill Gammage. PMB PHOTO 46-0696
Museum, cemetery, etc. at Manus High School’, c. 21 Sep 1973. Photographer Bill Gammage. PMB PHOTO 46-0696

Dr Nayahamui Rooney: Newly Appointed Chair of the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau
The Dean of the College of Asia and the Pacific has appointed a new Chair of the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, effective 1 July 2023.

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Fri, 23 Aug 2024

The Use of Memory in the Transmission of the Violent Past in New Caledonia

Please join PhD candidate Clara Filippi as he provides an update during his research journey.
Thu, 22 Aug 2024

Remembering James C. Scott

This event is jointly hosted by the Department of Political and Social Change at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs and the

Thu, 22 Aug 2024

Climate turbulence, justice, and democratic experimentation

Episode 14 features David Schlosberg, Professor of Environmental Politics and Director of the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney.

Tue, 20 Aug 2024

Unequal Burden: Colonial Taxation and Living Standard Disparities Within Minorities

Join A/Prof Jenny Guardado as she examines indigenous socioeconomic sorting as an unexplored consequence of Spanish colonization in the Americas.
Thu, 15 Aug - Fri, 16 Aug 2024

AUKUS: Assumptions and Implications

Join us for a two-day symposium on AUKUS strategic partnership from 15-16 August 2024 in Canberra.
Tue, 6 Aug 2024

Innovation under Decentralized State Capitalism: Government Investment, Capital Market, and the Chinese EV Industry

How is genuine technological innovation possible in an authoritarian regime which is deeply involved in the economy?
Mon, 5 Aug 2024

Post-conflict resource development and state formation in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville

Please join PhD candidate Martin Syder as he provides an update during his research journey on the institutional formation of the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG).
Thu, 1 Aug 2024

Book Launch: The Global Politics of Sexual and Reproductive Health

Book Launch: The Global Politics of Sexual and Reproductive Health by Dr Maria Tanyag
Watch event recordings on YouTube