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16 October 2019

Networked security in Papua New Guinea

by Sinclair Dinnen and Grant Walton

4 July 2019

Part of the solution or part of the problem? Private security in PNG

by Sinclair Dinnen and Grant Walton

Outside the East Lorengau Refugee Transit Centre on Manus Island (Credit: Federal Government)

17 March 2019

Gulag politics? Perceptions of PNG-Australia relations and the Paladin contract

by Grant Walton and Sinclair Dinnen

Credit: Daniel Evans

4 February 2019

Bad places turned good: security in Melanesia’s settlement communities

by Daniel Evans

Women weaving baskets at Lorengau market, Manus Island (Credit: Michelle N Rooney)

3 December 2018

The gender diplomacy trap and the security race

by Nayahamui Michelle Rooney

The Australian Defence Force is working with PNG on high-end security risks (Credit: ABC)

16 November 2018

APEC security and PNG’s sovereignty

by Sinclair Dinnen and Grant Walton

Ships from the US Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force in the Western Pacific (US Pacific Fleet/Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0)

22 August 2018

The Indo-Pacific and the Blue Pacific

by Wesley Morgan

Unveiling of the RAMSI Monument at the Central Police Station cenotaph site, Honiara 2017 (Credit: Sean Davey)

18 July 2018

Securing the potential and wellbeing of the blue Pacific

by Meg Taylor

Port Moresby General Hospital (Credit: PMGH Facebook page)

22 May 2018

Severe drug and equipment shortages at Port Moresby General Hospital

by Glen Mola

Digicel staff members register customers at a temporary stand while others wait, Port Moresby, December 2017 (Credit: Amanda H A Watson)

24 January 2018

Compulsory SIM card registration in Papua New Guinea

by Amanda H A Watson

The three basic dimensions of well being included in the WPS Index

18 December 2017

Women, Peace and Security in Australia and the SDGs

by Susan Hutchinson

Women police officers in Liberia (UNFPA/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

13 December 2017

A new global index – Women, Peace, Security: what does it add?

by Jeni Klugman

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