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Archive for November, 2009

Paradise in crisis?

[reprinted from Unleashed, an ABC online publication. Read the original article ...]
Dr Katerina Teaiwa, Pacific Studies Convener in the Faculty of Asian Studies in the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific writes:
The latest drama surrounding Fiji is starting to conjure up images for me of the Bermuda Triangle.
There is a mysterious dead zone of [...]

Mothers: Cross Cultural Dialogues

On 2 November Dr Katerina Teaiwa, Pacific Studies Convener in the Faculty of Asian Studies in the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific, participated in an ANU forum, “Mothers: Cross Cultural Dialogues.”
Other speakers included Senator Kate Lundy, ACT member for Parliament, Jodi Hedley-Ward, author of “You Sexy Mother,” and Associate Professor Kalpana Ram of [...]

India’s toughest contest

Hope and perseverance drive the enormous number of young Indians with ambitions to work in government, reports Kate Sullivan (of the Faculty of Asian Studies).
It’s a Saturday aItafternoon in early October and Prakash is taking me to his afternoon preparatory class at Vajiram & Ravi, one of the dozens of institutes in Delhi that train [...]