Practising Politics in a Disorderly Democracy
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.Taking as its starting point Ron May's scholarship on Papua New Guinea as a “disorderly democracy,” this article examines how politics is practised in the PNG Parliament. Using a case study of the events of late 2020, when a vote of no confidence against the Marape government was mooted but eventually failed to materialise, it adopts a practice theory ...
Kerryn Baker
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Lady Anne Kerr: From the Rise of International Conference Interpreting to the Whitlam Dismissal
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.Before Anne Robson (née Taggart) became the second Lady Kerr upon marrying governor‐general John Kerr in 1975, she had an international career of some 30 years working as a French to English interpreter and consultant at over 30 national and international conferences and became the first Australian elected to the International Association of Conference
Alexis Bergantz
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What Determines Foreign Aid to Papua New Guinea? An Inter-temporal Model of Aid Allocation [PDF]
foreign aid, allocation, Papua New Guinea, time ...
Feeny, Simon
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Pontoniinae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidea) associated with bivalve molluscs from Hansa Bay, Papua New Guinea [PDF]
, 1999 Eleven species of Pontoniinae (Decapoda: Caridea) are recorded as associates from large bivalves in Hansa Bay, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. Nine species are recorded as new to the fauna of Papua New Guinea.
de Grave, S.
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When First Nations Don't Count: H.V. Evatt and the Erasure of Palestinian Rights
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.As Minister for External Affairs in the Chifley Government, Herbert Vere Evatt played a pivotal role at the United Nations in securing the partition of Palestine and recognition of the State of Israel. These endeavours were represented by Evatt and in subsequent commentary as exemplifying Evatt's commitment to justice.
Jeff Rickertt
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Who Makes the Far Right? Exploring Membership Application Data of the National Front of Australia
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.This paper addresses a problem for scholars examining the question of who supports far right political parties or movements. Due to the semi‐clandestine or oppositional nature of far right groups, historians, as well as those in adjacent disciplines, have often been unable to gain access to sufficient records or data to conduct analysis of who supports
Evan Smith, Lauren Pikó
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Untersuchungen zur Biologie und den natürlichen Feinden von Deanolis sublimbalis SNELLEN (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae) an Mango in Papua New Guinea [PDF]
, 2008 Deanolis sublimbalis SNELLEN (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), the red banded mango caterpillar (RMBC), is a Southeast Asian insect species. It is now widely distributed throughout this region (India, Burma, Thailand, China, Brunei, Philippines, Indonesia, and ...
Basedow, Thies, Krull, Stefan
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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
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An Assessment of Commodity Export Performance in South Pacific Countries, 1960 to 1999 [PDF]
We examine export performance and the factors influencing export growth in ten South Pacific countries, concentrating on the comparative influences of geographic endowments, policies and institutions.
Blowes, Anita, Fleming, Euan M.
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On the pisionids (Polychaeta: Pisionidae) from Papua New Guinea, with a description of six new species [PDF]
, 1995 Out of eight species of pisionids sampled in Papua New Guinea, six are new to science: Pisione helenae n.sp., P. parhelenae n. sp., P. parva n. sp.,P. brevicirra n. sp.,P. ungulata n. sp. and P. primitiva n. sp. Some remarks are given for P.
De Wilde, C.L.M., Govaere, J.C.R.
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