Skip to content

About
Authors
Posts
Publications

Julien Barbara

Julien Barbara is a Senior Policy Fellow at the Department of Pacific Affairs, ANU.

13 May 2020

Revisiting the concept of political participation in the Pacific

by Julien Barbara and Kerryn Baker

A photo from the 2014 Solomon Islands elections (Credit: ramsi_images/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

11 December 2018

Anticipating the 2019 Solomon Islands elections

by Julien Barbara and Terence Wood

Campaigning at Port Vila market, 2016 elections (Flickr/Commonwealth Secretariat CC BY-NC 2.0)

6 February 2017

Improving the electoral chances of Melanesian women: an evidence-based approach

by Julien Barbara and Kerryn Baker

Honiara, Solomon Islands (Flickr/Jenny Scott CC BY-NC 2.0)

21 September 2016

Urban politics in Melanesia: shallow roots

by Julien Barbara and Meg Keen

Lord Howe settlement, Honiara (Flickr/Simon Ager)

25 February 2016

Pacific urbanisation: changing times

by Meg Keen and Julien Barbara

Recent Comments

Tamanikaiyaroi Uate on After midnight: what Fiji’s HIV crisis looks like from a mobile clinic
Anura Widana on Palm oil, poverty and the price of progress
Michael Jimmy on Keeping it together, together: 2023 Pacific Urban Forum
David Gonol on Pacific security agreements: lessons from the Iran–US–Israel conflict
Clyde Kaila on Most UPNG students oppose Bougainville independence

View all comments

Upcoming Events

Devpolicy-ACDE Seminar: Negative shocks travel home
13:15-14:30, 21 April 2026
ANU-UPNG Seminar: predicting election outcomes in PNG
12:30-13:30, 1 May 2026
2026 Australasian AID Conference
2-4 December 2026

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Law, Governance and Policy, The Australian National University.

Sign up to our newsletter

Creative Commons

Posts on the Devpolicy Blog are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License unless otherwise noted.

About
Authors
Contact us

Australian aid
Pacific and PNG
Pacific migration
Asian & global development

Development Policy Centre
Australian Aid Tracker
Publications
Devpolicy Talks
PNG Databases

Follow us

Facebook
X
LinkedIn
Email
Podcast
Instagram

Copyright © 2026 - Development Policy Centre, Australian National University. Website by Futuretheory.

Subscribe to our newsletter

Search for: