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June 2008

Monster underwater volcanoes discovered near Fiji
People's Daily Online, China, 23 June 2008
During the six-week research expedition in the Pacific Ocean, scientists from The Australian National University (ANU)...

Pacific nation plans for oblivion
The Canberra Times, Australia - 20 Jun 2008
Mr Tong told an audience at the Australian National University the media gave polar bears more attention than the plight of his people. ...

Fiji PM reportedly meets EU delegates
Radio Australia, Australia - 18 Jun 2008
Dr Brij Lal, professor of Pacific studies at the Australian National University, says the EU team will also meet members of the diplomatic community, ...

Fuel prices threaten Fijian carrier
Aviation Record, Australia - 16 Jun 2008
Australian National University Professor of Pacific Studies Dr Brij Lal told Radio Australia's Pacific Beat program that if Air Fiji closes it will be ...

Australia warned against excluding PNG from workers scheme
ABC Online, Australia - 15 Jun 2008 2008
An economist from the Australian National University, Satish Chand, said New Zealand's very successful seasonal work visa scheme had targeted a number of ...

Images reveal 'rapid forest loss'
BBC News, UK, 3 June 2008
High-resolution satellite images have revealed the "rapid deforestation" of Papua New Guinea's biodiversity rich rainforests over the past 30 years...

Papua New Guinea's forests all but gone in 13 years
The Australian, Australia, 2 June 2008
PAPUA New Guinea is losing its accessible forests so quickly to logging and farming that more than 80 per cent will be gone within 13 years...

Zero emissions possible in PNG: Garnaut
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, 1 June 2008
Papua New Guinea has the potential to become the world's first zero carbon emissions country, the Australian government's climate change adviser Ross ...

Nautilus Minerals Inc.: Tonga Geochemical Survey Commences
Market Wire (press release), 28 May 2008
This collaborative program is between the Australian National University ("ANU") and Teck Cominco Limited ("Teck Cominco")...

Focus on services could help many escape poverty in PNG, says academic
Radio New Zealand International, New Zealand, 21 May 2008
Research from the Australian National University suggests 18 percent of the population in Papua New Guinea live on less than 40 US dollars...

New Professor of Maori Studies announced
Scoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand, 18 May 2008
Professor Reilly joined the Otago staff in 1991 after completing his PhD in Pacific Islands History at the Australian National University...

Focus must be on our own region
The Australian, Australia, 13 May 2008
One of Australia's most eminent military strategists, Paul Dibb of the Australian National University, said that attention to...

The road from 1987
Fiji Times, Fiji, 12 May 2008
... from history is that we don't learn from history Brij V Lal is Professor of Pacific and Asian History at The Australian National University...

Bring in the workers
Malaysia Star, Malaysia, 10 May 2008
They see as sensible, worthy and justified for a “guest worker” scheme for the lower skilled workers, especially from the South Pacific islands and Timor...

Letter from Suva: THE WORRYING QUESTIONS BEING ASKED ABOUT FIJI
Island Business, Fiji, 6 May 2008
Dr Satish Chand, of the Australian National University, in a blog he wrote for Lowe University in the United States, said: “The elections taking place next...

Commodore Frank Bainimarama runs what he describes as a ...
ABC Online, Australia, 5 May 2008
The Australian National University Pacific Centre's Stewart Firth says immigration officials were instructed by the Fijian Government to ignore the legal...