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Tag - Colonisation

Australian Minister for Defence Richard Marles and Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong with their French counterparts

France, Australia and the First Nations foreign policy

by Nic Maclellan
February 3, 2023
Ofa Guttenbeil-Likiliki giving the Mitchell Oration at the 2022 AAC

Enough is enough: audaciously decolonising the development and humanitarian nexus

by ‘Ofakilevuka (‘Ofa) Guttenbeil-Likiliki
December 15, 2022
Micronesian and Polynesian leaders at a traditional welcome ceremony in Fiji in June 2022 (Fijian Government-Facebook)

‘Pacific family’: what does it really mean?

by Juliet Hunt
June 15, 2022
The library at ADB's headquarters in the Philippines (Asian Development Bank-Flickr)

The relationship between language and neocolonialism in the aid industry

by Carla Vitantonio
May 30, 2022
Signing the Arawa land lease documents in 1970

A kiap in Bougainville: lessons for today

by Anthony Regan
June 25, 2021
Man in Goroka PNG

A response to ‘failed state’ narratives of PNG

by Kylie McKenna, Senala Morona and Cooniebhert Samgay
June 23, 2021
Fiji’s 1987 coup: from trauma to cohesion

Fiji’s 1987 coup: from trauma to cohesion

by Shailendra B. Singh
May 25, 2021

Is aid neo-colonial?

by Terence Wood
April 6, 2021
Photograph of a large conference room where all all delegates have a small video screen and headphones and all are looking at large screen with three people seated on stools.

We’ve won! We’ve lost!

by Juliet Hunt
December 16, 2020
Third-born daughter, Nancy Kumanyal (in PNG meri blouse and hat), and Nepe Kumanyal (in Akubra hat) with other family members in the PNG National Museum Theatrette, August 2015.

For God, country, or what? Nepe Kumanyal’s war

by Gregory Bablis
October 21, 2020
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