Australia’s humanitarian response to disasters in the South Pacific

2021 ◽  
pp. 205789112110192
Author(s):  
Derek McDougall
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Effectiveness ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Australian Government ◽  
The South ◽  
Climate Change Policies ◽  
Humanitarian Response ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The Pacific

Australian involvement in humanitarian affairs in the South Pacific is indicative of tensions that can arise between ‘humanitarianism as diplomacy’ and ‘humanitarian diplomacy’. Australia aims to play a leading role in relation to the Pacific island countries (PICs), and its humanitarian involvement can assist in that respect. However, despite Australia’s attempts to prevent or mitigate climate-related disasters, tensions have arisen because of Australia’s cautious climate change policies. The main influences on Australia’s involvement in humanitarian affairs in the South Pacific are political and bureaucratic factors within those parts of the Australian government concerned with relations with the PICs, and humanitarian affairs in particular; Australian interactions with the PICs themselves and other relevant international actors also play a role. The ‘lessons learnt’ from Australia’s humanitarian involvement in the South Pacific region focus on organizational effectiveness rather than the tensions between ‘humanitarian diplomacy’ and ‘humanitarianism as diplomacy’.

Sailing into the Anthropocene

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Dauvergne
Keyword(s):  
South Pacific ◽  
The Political ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
The South ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
Starting Date ◽  
History Of The South

Chapters 2–6 survey the political and socioeconomic forces underlying the global sustainability crisis. Understanding the scale and depth of contemporary forces of capitalism and consumerism requires a close look at the consequences of imperialism and colonialism on patterns of violence and exploitation. This chapter begins this process of understanding by sketching the history of ecological imperialism after 1600, seeing this as a reasonable starting date for the beginning of what many scholars are now calling the Anthropocene Epoch (or the age of humans, replacing the geologic epoch of the Holocene beginning 12,000 years ago). It opens with Captain Pedro Fernandes de Queirós’s voyage across the Pacific Ocean in 1605–06 to “discover” modern-day Vanuatu, before turning to look more globally at the devastation of imperialism – and later colonialism – for the South Pacific, the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Over this time conquerors enslaved and murdered large numbers of indigenous people; cataclysmic change came as well, however, from the introduction of European diseases, plants, and animals. This chapter’s survey of imperialism, colonialism, and globalization sets the stage for Chapter 3, which explores the devastating history of the South Pacific island of Nauru after 1798.

Kava : A Challenge to Alcohol?

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-53
Author(s):  
J.E. Cawte
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
The South ◽  
Aboriginal Communities ◽  
North East ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Arnhem Land

Kava has been introduced into Aboriginal communities in Northern Australia. Persons from Yirrkala in North East Arnhem Land visiting the South Pacific region on study tours have been impressed by their welcome in Kava bowl ceremonies, and some of them hoped that the Aborigines might use Kava instead of alcohol.In 1983 many Aboriginal people in Arnhem Land used Kava, and much more was used in 1984. By 1985 it became a social epidemic or ‘craze’ in many communities. Rings of people of both sexes and of all ages often sit together under trees around Kava bowls for many hours. They may drink up to a hundred times the amount normally drunk in the Pacific Islands by the same number of people in the same time.

scholarly journals AUSTRALIA SEBAGAI KEKUATAN REGIONAL DALAM EKSPLOITASI SUMBER DAYA ALAM DI KAWASAN PASIFIK

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-68
Author(s):  
Muhammad Naser El Haq ◽  
Muhammad Saef El Islam
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Marine Biota ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Regional Power ◽  
The South ◽  
Social Interventions ◽  
Oil Reserves ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Interesting Area

Since Australia was still a colonial territory under Great Britain, the Australian colonial administration had a goal of making Australia a regional power that had interests in the Pacific region, specifically the South Pacific. The South Pacific region itself is an area that has already been proven to have considerable natural wealth, ranging from an abundance of marine biota wealth, oil reserves which have been discovered and also have not been explored, and mineral wealth lying beneath the Pacific Earth makes this area as a very interesting area to control. The widespread influence of Australia in the Pacific region makes Australia a country that has large bargaining power in exploration and exploitation projects of natural resources in the region. This article uses the concepts of the theory of Hegemony and Regionalism with descriptive qualitative research methods which sets out some examples of cases of Australia's role as a regional power in the exploitation of natural resources in the Pacific region. Australia as a regional power in the Pacific shows a tendency to control the natural resources that are buried in the region. Various methods such as military, economic and social interventions are carried out by Australia to benefit from the natural wealth in the Pacific region.

scholarly journals Official Development Assistance as an Aspect of the Australia-China Competition in the South Pacific

2020 ◽  
pp. 193-205
Author(s):  
Artyom A. Garin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Development Assistance ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Official Development Assistance ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
The South ◽  
Island States ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Pacific Island States

Due to China's increasing involvement in South Pacific, there is a growing interest on the part of the middle and great powers in providing the Pacific island States with an increasing amount of material assistance. With its unique geographical location, as well as numerous initiatives in the humanitarian, trade, economic and defence areas, Australia's influence is reinforced by its status as the major ODA source in Oceania. At the same time, despite Australia's clear advantage in providing ODA to South Pacific states, the region is attracting an increasing number of countries aimed at providing ODA to South Pacific countries, especially China.

scholarly journals The Significance of the South Pacific for Comparative Studies in Labour Law

1996 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 345 ◽  
Author(s):  
B T Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Studies ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
The South ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Island States ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Pacific Island States

In this article, Professor Brooks traces the introduction of labour law into the South Pacific island states and its development there. He considers the richness of the subject for interdisciplinary and comparative study, and indicates labour law as fertile ground for an investigation into the tensions in the Pacific states between tradition and modernisation.

scholarly journals Sport-for-Development in the South Pacific Region: Macro-, Meso-, and Micro-Perspectives

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 303-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Sherry ◽  
Nico Schulenkorf ◽  
Emma Seal ◽  
Matthew Nicholson ◽  
Russell Hoye
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Sport For Development ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Pacific Island Nations

As the field of sport-for-development (SFD) has developed, there has been increasing debate over the ability of SFD programs to effect lasting structural change on target communities. Highlighting the barriers to SFD program delivery in five Pacific Island nations, in this paper we argue that numerous challenges emerging at macro-, meso-, and microlevels must be explored, understood, and accounted for to enact structural change. Building on thematic findings from our empirical cross-nation research project, we discuss the importance of addressing SFD challenges at all levels of society to ensure that interventions are appropriately tailored for the specific and often divergent sociocultural contexts in the Pacific Islands region. We argue for a more holistic approach to planning, management, and evaluation when attempting to deliver structural change through sport.

Dollarization of the South Pacific Island Countries: Results of a Preliminary Study

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
South Pacific ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
The South ◽  
Fiscal Discipline ◽  
Single Currency ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Pacific Island Countries ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Optimum Currency

AbstractThis paper examines the case for adopting the Australian dollar as a common currency among the island countries in the South Pacific. The proposal of a single currency was informally floated by Australia at the Pacific Forum Leaders Meeting in Auckland, in August 2003. The Pacific Forum consists of 14 developing island countries and the developed countries in the region, namely, Australia and New Zealand. In early 2003, a committee of the Australian Senate recommended adoption of a single currency as a possible remedy to meet the deteriorating economic situations in the Pacific island countries, arising out of poor fiscal discipline and failure to effectively use external aid inflows. Successful adoption of a single currency with either a new currency or an existing currency of a dominant partner in trade and development requires the fulfillment of various prerequirements, which are well known as optimum currency area conditions. The paper assesses the feasibility of the proposal in the light of these conditions and concludes that the time for adoption has not yet arrived.

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