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Gordon Peake

Gordon Peake is a writer, podcaster and consultant. His first book was an award-winning memoir of life in Timor-Leste, his second on the would-be nation of Bougainville.

16 April 2025

Into the heart of Melanesia: a new travelogue

by Gordon Peake

6 January 2025

A rare aid success story brought riches to Bougainville but will it last?

by Gordon Peake and Terence Wood

Gordon Peake (far left) and Angel Pesevski (bottom right) with colleagues in Bougainville in 2016

24 February 2023

Vale Angel Pesevski

by Gordon Peake

11 February 2022

The power of good satire

by Gordon Peake

Convoy of US military vehicles carrying fresh water to Rwandan refugees at camp Kimbumba, Zaire in August 1994

3 February 2022

The most influential humanitarian you’ve never heard of

by Gordon Peake

The first civilian contingent of the Australian Medical Task Force prepare to board a helicopter bound for Kot Addu.

17 December 2021

Where are you this time?

by Gordon Peake

A young woman in a yellow dress and pale peach head scarf is whispering into the ear of a young woman with blonde hair wearing a khaki green shirt.

30 November 2021

An insider’s guide to changing the world

by Gordon Peake

People in Bougainville

5 July 2021

Working with the relational state: the case of Bougainville

by Gordon Peake and Miranda Forsyth

Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland

17 March 2021

Doing better without aid: the case of Somaliland

by Gordon Peake

Jeremy Beckett

4 March 2021

‘Some things that you don’t understand’: religion and development

by Gordon Peake and Julia Bergin

The courage to write

18 February 2021

The courage to write

by Gordon Peake and Julia Bergin

Memorandum of Understanding recording

2 February 2021

Leftovers from our first Memorandum of Understanding

by Gordon Peake

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