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.

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 Land as a Fundamental Right: a Cautionary Tale

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 387
Author(s):  
Sue Farran
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Cautionary Tale ◽  
The South ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Political Economic

The article discusses the importance of land rights in the South Pacific for securing the enjoyment of other civil, political, economic, and social rights in the Pacific focusing especially on Vanuatu as a paradigm. The infringement of land rights and the abuse of natural resources in the Pacific have a long history and the consequences on human rights on the whole are severe.  The article argues that current constitutional provisions do not go far enough to ensure that land rights are protected and consequently to ensure the enjoyment human rights as a whole.

scholarly journals Occurrence and abundance of meso and microplastics in sediment, surface waters, and marine biota from the South Pacific region

2020 ◽  
Vol 160 ◽  
pp. 111572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adil Bakir ◽  
Marieke Desender ◽  
Tim Wilkinson ◽  
Nanne Van Hoytema ◽  
Ruth Amos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surface Waters ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Sediment Surface ◽  
Marine Biota ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
The South

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’.

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