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Both major parties support offshore processing and boat turnbacks. But public opinion on asylum seekers is not so clear-cut. And nor are the policy alternatives.
If a new High Court claim against Australia’s offshore detention regime succeeds, it will entirely undermine Australia’s inhumane practices in relation to “those who come across the seas”.
Geography matters. Whether countries are rich or poor or safe or vulnerable still has more to do with physical geography than we usually acknowledge. Even in age that is routinely described as “global…
The Australian government must face the uncomfortable truth that it is no longer possible to process or detain asylum seekers and refugees in other countries in our region.
Malcolm Turnbull’s nose was out of joint when Tony Abbott said last month the Turnbull government would be running at the election on the Abbott government’s record. Turnbull insisted that while there…
A PNG Supreme Court judgment is likely to have profound implications for Australia’s offshore processing regime in that country.
The Australian government says it will not allow any asylum seekers on Manus Island to come here, after PNG’s Supreme Court ruled it was illegal to detain them there.
Adults who had a low birthweight or were undernourished as young children are more likely to experience high blood pressure and obesity.
Rising seas are one of the major concerns of Pacific Island nations, and looking at past sea-level change can help understand the future.
A large number of children with malaria in the Asia-Pacific have relapses of the disease, not new infections. Malaria-programs must target these latent infections to completely eliminate the disease.
Australian colonial rule and its legacy tend to be neglected, but as Papua New Guinea marks 40 years of independence the nation is still living with the consequences.
As Prime Minister Tony Abbott attends the Pacific Island Forum summit today, attention has again turned to how the low-lying islands will deal with global warming.
Australia’s system of offshore immigration detention operates outside of any effective state jurisdiction.
Papua New Guinea is now facing a drought and frosts that look set to be worse than 1997, when hundreds of people died. So how can memories of 1997 save lives over the next few months?
Over-fishing is a massive environmental and economic challenge. Fortunately, there are new solutions being trialled – including in a tuna hotspot in the Pacific.
News that a Sydney man has contracted Creutzfeld-Jacob disease serves to highlight that we still don’t know how to prevent a disease that most often goes unreported, and unremarked on.
Food has been scarce for many rural people in Vanuatu since Cyclone Pam – but overall, they now have greater security of food supply than they did in the past.
A tiny handful of Pacific island nations control more than 50% of the world’s tuna fishery, and their efforts to monitor international fishing vessels are set to become a major source of jobs.
While you may have heard about the increasing threat that climate change and rising seas pose to Pacific islands — already forcing some communities to move — Australia has its own group of islands that…
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Senior Lecturer in History, Deakin University
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Adjunct Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, Program Director of Health Security and Head of Vector-borne Diseases & Tropical Public Health, Burnet Institute; Laboratory Head, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute; Adjunct Principal Research Fellow, PNG Institute of Medical Research, Burnet Institute
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Adjunct professor, University of Adelaide
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Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute
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Head of Operational Climate Services, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Researcher in Political Science, The University of Melbourne
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Climate scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Melbourne Climate Futures initiative, The University of Melbourne
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Clinical head, General Intensive Care Unit, Royal Children's Hospital, The University of Melbourne
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Teaching Associate, Monash University
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Professor, Constitutional Law and Peace-building, Department of Pacific Affairs, The Australian National University, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Queensland
