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Tag - Culture

City bus station, Canberra

Culture shock in Canberra

by Gerhardt Siune
22 May 2023
Majuro, Marshall Islands (Erin Magee-DFAT-Flickr)

Small is (sometimes) beautiful: perceptions of corruption in seven small Pacific Island countries

by Grant Walton
23 February 2023
Protect coastlines (©Mercia Abbott)

Nature-based urban design for wellbeing and adaptation in Oceania

by Tokintekai Bakineti, Paul Blaschke, Luke Kiddle, Anita Latai-Niusulu, Willy Missack and Maibritt Pedersen Zari
27 June 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
15 June 2022

Art and violence in Papua New Guinea

by Grant Walton
1 June 2022
Threshing rice in Bercoli, Timor-Leste (Lisa Palmer)

Life and governance in the rice fields of Timor-Leste

by Lisa Palmer
2 November 2021
A woman in a white t-shirt, colourful skirt and blue broad-brimmed hat sits on wooden steps taking notes with pen and paper. In front of her sit two elderly people on a woven mat. Beside the is a house built on short stilts. In the background is a house with a palm frond roof.

An important book at a difficult time

by Michael Rose
17 August 2021
COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Poros (Akito Ximenes)

COVID-19: the view from a Timorese village

by Akito Ximenes and Michael Rose
20 July 2021
Foundations of classroom change in developing countries: a review

Foundations of classroom change in developing countries: a review

by Robert Cannon
23 April 2021

COVID-19 and the haus krai

by Nayahamui Michelle Rooney
30 March 2021
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