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After completing an MA in History at the Victoria University of Wellington, Hugh Laracy graduated in 1970 from The Australian National University with a PhD in Pacific History. He subsequently pursued an academic career in New Zealand, from where he has applied himself assiduously to research and writing about the Pacific. In acknowledgement of his efforts, he has been awarded the Solomon Islands Medal (first class); and the Dunmore Medal for his work on the French in the Pacific; and a Fulbright Fellowship to study the impact of World War II there.
Dr Kathy MacDermott has taught in universities in Australia and the United States and worked in the senior executive service of the Australian Public Service in the areas of industrial relations policy and public sector governance. She is a member of the Democratic Audit of Australia and the Centre for Policy Development. Her most recent publications include Whatever happened to ‘frank and fearless’? (for the Australia and New Zealand School of Government) and Marketing Government (for the Democratic Audit of Australia), and contributions to More than Luck (for the Centre for Policy Development) and the Australian Review of Public Affairs.
Marie Olive Reay was a social anthropologist who did research in Australian indigenous communities and in the Wahgi Valley in the Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Employed at The Australian National University from 1959 to 1988 when she retired, Reay passed away in 2004.
John Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University. He is the author of Consuming Identity: Modernity and Tourism in New Zealand (1988) and The Other Side: Ways of Being and Place in Vanuatu (2008). He is also co-editor of two previous ANU Press titles, Working Together in Vanuatu: Research Histories, Collaborations, Projects and Reflections (2011, with Nick Thieberger) and Touring Pacific Cultures (2016, with Kalissa Alexeyeff).
Aboriginal History Inc. is a publishing organisation based in the Australian Centre for Indigenous History, Research School of Social Science, The Australian National University, Canberra. It publishes the annual refereed journal Aboriginal History and a monograph series, and administers the Sally
Asia Pacific Press was a specialist publisher based at The Australian National University in the Crawford School of Economics and Government, publishing on economics, development, governance and management in the Asia Pacific region. Asia Pacific Press closed in 2008. Scholarly Information Services
The Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) is an Australian Research Council Special Research Centre. CAPPE commenced operations in 2000 and is the world’s largest concentration of applied philosophers. Spanning three of Australia’s most prestigious universities, its purpose is to
Pacific Linguistics is a publisher specialising in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, atlases and other materials concerned with languages of the Pacific, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Southeast, South and East Asia. PL books are distributed by Photography, Distribution and
The Resources, Environment & Development (RE&D) Program is an inter-disciplinary program of research on the historical, social and institutional context of natural resource management in the countries of the Asia-Pacific region. The RE&D Program aims to function as a key node in the
The Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) is Australia’s leading centre for the study of strategic, defence and wider security issues. SDSC conducts research and teaching on the role of armed force in international affairs, especially as it affects Australia and its region. SDSC’s research