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This collection contains more than 300 monographs and working papers digitised by the Pacific Institute. This work represents a significant contribution to the process of digitising The Australian National University's extensive and diverse oeuvre of Pacific research. Priority for digitisation was given to documents that were available in a clean hard-copy format to ensure the best quality result (incl. select non-Pacific material). Monograph series were produced in their entirety where possible; it is suggested that the scanning of incomplete Pacific publication series be a priority for future work. The imperative for this initiative – its contribution to Pacific scholarship, to genuine collaboration and to the repatriation of research to the peoples of the Pacific – should not be underestimated (read a related note on reciprocity by Ron Crocombe and Oskar Spate from 1969). This digitisation effort was supported by the Board of the Pacific Institute. Special thanks to: Deveni Temu (Pacific Librarian ANU), Wal Ambrose and others in ANH (for the TAs), Bryant Allen and Mike Bourke (for the NGRB collection), the late Hank Nelson, Colin Filer, Peter Sack, Vicki Luker (JPH material), Pam Thomas, Ron May, Robin Hide, the late Darrell Tryon, and Roger Casas Ruiz. Mike Cookson conducted this work on behalf of the Pacific Institute.

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A time to change: the Fiji general elections of 1999
(Canberra : Dept. of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University,, 1999) Lal, Brij V.
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Black out in Alice: a history of the establishment and development of town camps in Alice Springs
(Canberra Miami, Fla. : Australian National University, 1981., 1981) Heppell, M; Wigley, J. J.
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Culture and sustainable development in the Pacific
(Australian National University Press, 2005) Culture and Sustainable Development in the Pacific Conference; Hooper, Antony (ed.)
Throughout the South Pacific, notions of 'culture' and 'development' are very much alive—in political debate, the media, sermons, and endless discussions amongst villagers and the urban élites, even in policy reports. Often the terms are counterposed, and development along with 'economic rationality', 'good governance' and 'progress' is set against culture or 'custom', 'tradition' and 'identity'. The decay of custom and impoverishment of culture are often seen as wrought by development, while failures of development are haunted by the notion that they are due, somehow, to the darker, irrational influences of culture. The problem is to resolve the contradictions between them so as to achieve the greater good—access to material goods, welfare and amenities, ‘modern life’—without the sacrifice of the ‘traditional’ values and institutions that provide material security and sustain diverse social identities. [from publisher's advertisement] "The papers in this volume were presented at a UNESCO conference 'Culture and Sustainable Development in the Pacific' in Suva, Fiji, between 9-12 July, 1997." -- p. xii.
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Economic development, migrant labour and indigenous welfare in Irian Jaya
(Canberra, ACT : Development Studies Centre, Research School of Pacfic Studies, The Australian National University.) Manning, Chris; Rumbiak, Michael
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Bounteous bestowal: the economic history of Norfolk Island
(Canberra, ACT : Development Studies Centre, Research School of Pacfic Studies, The Australian National University.) Treatgold, Malcolm Lloyd
Discovered uninhabited by Cook. Norfolk Island was first settled by the British in 1788 because of misperceptions about the value of its flax and timber resources. It was abandoned in 1814. but reoccupied eleven years later exclusively as a penal establishment. In the next three decades convict labour permitted considerable agricultural. pastoral and construction activity. The substantial capital stock accumulated over this period largely became a legacy for the Pitcairn descendants of the Bounty mutineers, who were resettled on Norfolk in 1856 after the closure of the penal establishment. They created a subsistence-based economy which remained essentially unchanged until externally introduced structural and institutional changes around the turn of the century forged much closer links with the international economy. The upshot was a phase of highly unstable export oriented growth which was eventually curtailed by World War II. The immediate post-war period was one of erratic economic change and declining population, with the economy lacking any strong and sustained growth stimulus until tourism assumed this role in the early 1960s. Subsequent expansion. strengthened temporarily by the use of the island as a tax haven. transformed Norfolk into a capital-exporting. developed mini-economy displaying a high degree of affluence in per capita terms. Admittedly, this economy has also displayed instability. inequality and continued reliance on Australian financial support; and it faces the threat of environmental constraints impeding future growth. Nevertheless, it has so far proved resilient in the context of the greater political autonomy the island has possessed since 1979.
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The North East Passage : a study of Pacific islander migration to American Samoa and the United States
(Canberra, ACT : Development Studies Centre, Research School of Pacfic Studies, The Australian National University., 1990) Ahlburg, Dennis; Levin, Michael J
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The cash incentive : the economic response of semi-subsistent craftworkers in Papua New Guinea
(Canberra, ACT : National Centre for Development Studies, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University.) Philp, Norman E
This study examines the income-earning potential, the cash expenditure behaviour and the work effort response of a sample of handloom wool weavers who operated in both the remote villages and urban towns of pre-independent Papua New Guinea. Its concern is thus with the response of these workers to the cash incentive. Although weaving represented the main cash-earning activity of the weaver households, they continued to rely on the nonmonetary traditional economy for a substantial part of their livelihood. In the Highlands of New Guinea non-monetary garden production contributed one-third of total household income during the study period. The weaving workforce was selected because of the homogeneity of work effort, because the quantity of work performed and the earning rates of individual workers could be calculated with some precision and because there was a high degree of freedom in the actual work-leisure choice of each participant. It was found that less than 40 per cent of the potential work time available to the average weaver was actually used in effective cash-earning work and, as such, average weekly earnings during the study period were less than 40 per cent of their potential.
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Migration and development in the South Pacific
(Canberra, ACT : Development Studies Centre, Research School of Pacfic Studies, The Australian National University.) Connell, John
For the past quarter of a century migration has been the most important demographic variable in large parts of the South Pacific region. Within the region there is extensive rural-urban migration and beyond the region international migration to the metropolitan states of USA, Australia and New Zealand. The scale of this movement has changed perceptions of development, posed problems for national development (and especially for agricultural development) and con tributed to rapid social and economic change, as island states and islanders have increasingly focused their social and economic aspirations outwards. Pressures for migration continue to increase at the same time as the opportunities for satisfying such pressures are declining, and as international migration becomes an increasingly overt political issue. This collection of recent papers examines the changing context and impact of migration in eight different states in the region, reviewing such issues as the brain or skill drain, remittances and investment, employment strategies of migrants, the impact of migration on inequality and uneven development and the overall relationship between migration and development. Migration is more closely linked to social issues, including education and suicide, than in many earlier discussions and there is also a strong emphasis on the historical evolution of structures of migration. The various papers demonstrate the great variety in the structure and impact of migration and recognize the tasks involved in incorporat ing such diversity into appropriate policy formation.
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The Hiri in history : further aspects of long distance Motu trade in Central Papua
(Canberra, ACT : Pacific Research Committee, Reseach School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University., 1982) Dutton, Thomas Edward
In days gone by some of the Motu-speaking peoples around Port Moresby used to go on annual trading expeditions to the Gulf of Papua. There they would exchange with the inhabitants of that area pots and other valuables for sago and canoe logs. These expeditions were called hiri, and were not only spectacular in terms of the number, nature and size of the sailing craft involved and the cargoes they carried but also very important economically and in other ways to the Motu and others directly or indirectly involved. Despite this importance, however, and despite the fact that the main aspects of this trade have been known for a long time, there are still many aspects of it about which not so much is known, or which have not been recorded. Some of these aspects involve empirical questions which have to do with the day the hiri were organized and operated, particularly at the inter personal level; others are historical questions of unknown depth which can only be answered, if at all, by painstaking research involving investigators from a number of disciplines. Research into both these areas is progressing steadily, and it is the purpose of this volume to present some of the results of this activity. The six papers published here over socio-economic, religious, linguistic and prehistoric aspects of the hiri.
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Environment, aid and regionalism in the South Pacific
(Canberra, ACT : Development Studies Centre, Research School of Pacfic Studies, The Australian National University., 1990) Carew-Reid, Jeremy
The island countries of the South Pacific are in rapid transition. After hundreds of years of an essentially subsistence economy, the vigorous industrial and commercial developments of recent decades have placed new demands on the island environment; demands which cannot be sustained without strict controls. Countries have acknowledged their shared environmental problems and limited resources by pooling their effort through the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP). The Programme is facilitating moves by governments to manage their own activities and those of outsiders by adopting international legal agreements which define responsibilities and set environmental management guidelines and procedures. The work of SPREP has stimulated some aid organizations to reduce the nature and focus of their assistance and the extent to which they accept responsibility for the environmental implications of aid projects. Greater initiative from the aid community is required in helping countries to take on the burdens of environmental assessment and management. Some of the important advances made by South Pacific governments and the aid community in environmental management are recorded, while suggesting cooperative approaches to sustainable development which might be applied in the region to build upon past successes.
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Cambodia: A Political Survey
(Canberra, ACT : Dept. of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University.) Vickery, Michael
Since the last election in 2003, and in particular during 2005~2006, Cambodian stability has been threatened by unprincipled political figures who enjoy support from extreme right~wing U.S entities such as the International Republican Institute (IRI), financed in part by USAID and backed by influential U.S. senators, including John McCain, all attempting to fan the flames of Cambodian-Vietnamese hostility; and I think a new publication, with additional detail, of this study of the so-called 'Cambodian Peace Process' and its results; may be a useful contribution to 'understanding the background of Cambodia's present situation. •
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Education in Fiji: policy, problems and progress in primary and secondary education, 1939-1973
(Canberra, ACT : Pacific Research Committee, Reseach School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University., 1981) Whitehead, Clive
This study analyses government education policy in Fiji since 1939, within the context of the development of primary and secondary schooling. It shows how policy has been influenced primarily by the rising tide of social demand for schooling and by the economic importance attached to education as a source of skilled manpower. Throughout the period under review there has been a constant imbalance between the quantity and quality of education, which has been accentuated by the Government's lack of effective control over the growth of schools. Consequently, until recently, educational planning at government level has been characterized by a piecemeal approach. It is the author's contention that the voluntary school principle, the keystone of former British colonial education policy, has out lived its usefulness as the basis on which to build an education system designed to meet Fiji's current and future social and economic needs. Instead, a state or public school system would be more appropriate.
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Indonesia: from Suharto to Democracy?
(Canberra, ACT : Dept. of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University.) Lowry, Robert, 1946-
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Port Vila : transit station or final stop ? Recent developments in Ni-Vanuatu population mobility
(Canberra, ACT : Development Studies Centre, Research School of Pacfic Studies, The Australian National University.) Haberkorn, Gerald
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Cash cropping, Catholicism and change : resettlement among the Kuni of Papua
(Canberra, ACT : National Centre for Development Studies, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University., 1986) Gostin, Olga
In 1961, a Roman Catholic priest informed his Papuan congregation in the mountainous foothills of the Owen Stanley Ranges that he intended to relocate the mission station in the plains further south, and there start cash-cropping. Thus began a unique rural settlement which had neither government nor official mission backing, and which entailed the subtle interplay of the Kuni people's aspirations to modernize,with their adherence to traditional values and social organization. This monograph is the story of the relocation, and is based on fieldwork conducted between 1963 and 1965, with revisits spannin~ a total of twenty years, the last being in 1983. Even before European contact in 1901, the Kuni had developed marked flexibility within their own social organization and adaptability with neighbouring tribes. This trait served them well during the early contact period which culminated in their evangelization in 1935. World War II disturbed the equilibrium by opening new opportunities for employment and migration. The decision to resettle and engage in cash-cropping was a direct response to the trend for able-bodied men to leave the area. The study focuses on problems of social change generated by a new lifestyle entailing unprecedented population concentration and cash-cropping. Changes in leadership structure, patterns of residence, kinship organization and social custom are all reviewed over a span of two decades. An interesting feature of the study is the role of Catholicism and the Catholic ethic in rationalizing, inhibiting and at times facilitating change.
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Viceroy of the Pacific : the majesty of colour, a life of Sir John Bates Thurston
(Canberra, ACT : Pacific Research Committee, Reseach School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University.) Scarr, Deryck
Biography of Sir John Bates Thurston and sequel to I, the very bayonet.
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Universal Suffrage in Western Samoa: The 1991 General Elections
(Canberra, ACT : Dept. of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University.) So'o, Asofou
Since 1962 Western Samoa has been an independent state with a parliamentary system of government. The one-chamber parliament consists of a House of Assembly with 47 members, whose composition and method of election has reflected a specifically Samoan form of political democracy which blends tradi tion with modernity. In terms of both eligibility for election and eligibility to vote at elections, a dual system operated until 1991 . Of the 47 members of parliament (MPs), 45 were required to be matai (chief) elected by a system of matai suffrage, while two were non-matai representatives elected by individual voters under a system of qualified adult suffrage. The introduction in 1 99 1 ofuniversal non-compulsory suffrage to elect the 45 matai MPs transformed the electoral system by entitling all persons aged 2 1 years and over to vote for matai candidates in their electorate, thereby ensuring that all citizens have equal political rights in the election of parliament, and that all members of parliament represent, and are responsible to, their constituency and to the overall Samoan population. Thus, universal suffrage may be regarded as a giant step in the process of democratizing Samoan politics and in legitimizing parliamentary rule. Nevertheless, it should be pointed out that the composition of parliamentremains unaltered: only matai are eligible for election to 45 of the 47 seats in parliament; the political system continues to be based on both traditional and modem forms.
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Doi moi : ten years after the 1986 party congress
(Canberra, ACT : Dept. of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University.) Vietnam Update Conference; Fforde, Adam
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Legitimacy, Sovereignty and Regime Change in the South Pacific: Comparisons Between the Fiji Coups and the Bougainville Rebellion
(Canberra, ACT : Dept. of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University.) Lamour, Peter
The coups in Fiji during 1987 were the first fmcible changes d govamne.nt amoog the independent states d the South Pacific. The Boogainville rebellim which began in lare 1988 became the most violeot inremal cooflict in the regim. Both events lxougbt the military to the fcngrouod d dm>estic politics, and challenged pevi<m assumpti<n about the legitimacy and sovaeignty d govemmmts. If 'regime' refm to a lxoad set d expectali<n and asmmpti<n about govemmeot. then both sets d events amount to regime changes. 'Ibis paper compares the two events, using idea about sovereignty and legitimacy. It examines the ideas generally, and in relatim to South Pacific politics, and then it summarizes the similarities and diffemx:es. and draws some cooclusims about regime change.
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Political development in Vietnam: From the Sixth to the Seventh National Party Congress
(Canberra, ACT : Dept. of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University.) Thayer, Carlyle
This paper will address itself to political change in Vietnam between the sixth and seventh national party congresses before turning to a discussion of the seventh national congress itself.

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