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The South Pacific Islands: policy taboos, popular amnesia and political failure

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Dobell, Graeme

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Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University
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This paper was originally presented as part of the Menzies Research Centre Lecture Series: Australian Security in the 21st Century. Here the well-known Australian journalist Graeme Dobell argues that Australia should accept its unique role in the Pacific as a great gift, not a burden. We should abandon the strangely defensive posture we have adopted from the day the South Pacific Forum was created. It is time for Australia to lead.

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Pacific Economic Bulletin (1991-2010)

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Pacific Economic Bulletin, Vol. 18 , No. 1, 2003

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