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Kerryn Baker

Kerryn Baker is a Fellow at the Department of Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University.

4 September 2025

Addressing disability inequality on polling day is just the beginning

by Ellenah Kelly and Kerryn Baker

1 July 2024

Women’s political representation in Solomon Islands

by Kerryn Baker

25 June 2024

Understanding popular political attitudes in Vanuatu

by Kerryn Baker, Michael Leach and Christopher Mudaliar

13 May 2020

Revisiting the concept of political participation in the Pacific

by Julien Barbara and Kerryn Baker

11 November 2019

Reserved seats in Vanuatu: gender equality and “foreign interference”

by Kerryn Baker

Prime Minister Bainimarama after announcing the FijiFirst candidates for the 2018 General Election (Credit: Atu Rasea/Fiji Times)

25 February 2019

Women’s representation in the 2018 Fiji election

by Kerryn Baker

A PNG election poster (Credit: Terence Wood)

6 February 2018

Experiences of female candidates in the 2017 Papua New Guinea general election

by Kerryn Baker

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

Broken glass (Wikimedia Commons/Jef Poskanzer CC BY 2.0)

28 September 2016

The highest glass ceiling

by Kerryn Baker

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