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ANU Press Coming Soon Cover image of Disrupting, Decentring and Diversifying Languages and Cultures in Australian Universities

How can language teaching in Australian higher education be disrupted, decentred and diversified?

This volume offers theory, critical reflection, pedagogy and data-driven research to challenge how languages are taught and imagined.

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PNG’s half-century report card • Hamish McDonald It’s the country of many failures that hasn’t failed

“Many things have got worse, and there are certainly serious risks ... but, so far, the pessimism of the doomsday merchants has been as misplaced as the optimism of PNG’s boosters.”

Hamish McDonald reviews ‘Struggle, Reform, Boom and Bust’, for 'Inside Story'.

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Ten years after the publication of ‘The New Pacific Diplomacy’ (ANU Press, 2015), Greg Fry and Sandra Tarte have a new article revisiting the role of diplomacy by Pacific island states on key issues such as climate change, law of the sea, and regional security.
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Also the winner of our ECR award - excellent book Sonia!

Richard Waterhouse reviews, ‘We Are a Farming Class’: Dubbo’s Hinterland, 1870–1950, by Peter Woodley
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ANU Press New Release. Cover image of Deeper, Strategic Collaboration in the Securities Sector: India and Australia

With increasing globalisation and convergence in securities markets, regulatory cooperation is increasingly relevant.

This book proposes a deeper, strategic collaboration between India and Australia in regard to the securities sector.

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Just how do India 🇮🇳 and Australia 🇦🇺 stack up when it comes to securities regulation?

Our upcoming book examines the potential strategic collaboration between these countries in the securities sector.

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New book details 50 years of PNG economic volatility Economists from the University of Papua New Guinea and the Australian National University have published an assessment of PNG's economy over its first 50 years.

“New book details 50 years of PNG economic volatility”

RNZ Pacific speaks with Stephen Howes, director of the ANU Development Policy Centre, and one of the editors of ‘Struggle, Reform, Boom and Bust’.

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Rethinking Histories of Indonesia <p><em>Rethinking Histories of Indonesia: Experiencing, Resisting and Renegotiating Coloniality</em> provides a critical evaluation of histories of Indonesia from the formal period of colonisation to ...

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“This is a significant and exciting volume in terms of its scale, the range of disciplines, approaches and topics covered, and ultimately, for its contribution to the field of Indonesian history ... "

Great review of 'Rethinking Histories of Indonesia': www.insideindonesia.org/archive/arti...

Politics, Pride and Perversion <p>Frank Arkell (1929–1998) was the most successful politician of his generation; an Independent who served as Wollongong’s Lord Mayor (1974–1991) and state member (1984–1991). Arkell dominated Wollon...

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Author Erik Eklund appeared on the Australian True Crime podcast with Meshel Laurie, covering his new book and Wollongong's former Lord Mayor and state member Frank Arkell.

A harrowing story of political power and sexual abuse that needs to be told.

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Text: Coming Soon register your interest today. Cover images of four titles: Gender and Politics Reimagined, Wild Partners, Law in the New Democracy and Internation Review of Environmental History.

We’re excited to unveil four compelling upcoming titles:

📚 A reflection on the gendering of politics
🌿 A new issue of our environmental history journal
⚖️ An exploration of law-making in a young democracy
🔍 The history of the Mauututu Nakanai of West New Britain

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Cover image of Politics, Pride and Perversion'. Graphics include 'Australian Political Book of the Year Award' logo and '2025 Longlist announced'.

We are delighted to announce that Erik Eklund’s new book, ‘Politics, Pride and Perversion: The Rise and Fall of Frank Arkell’, has been selected for the 2025 Australian Political Book of the Year Award longlist. Congratulations!

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ANU Press New Release: Cover image of the latest issue of East Asia Forum Quarterly: Volume 17, Number 3, 2025

This edition of EAFQ maps the terrain on which Asia must choose between short-term accommodation and long-term growth and resilience, and examines how governments across the region are juggling the shocks from Washington alongside political and economic pressures.

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‘Rethinking Histories of Military Atrocity, Ethnic Violence and Photography, from the Aceh War to the Indonesian National Revolution’ - ✍️📷 New research of mine, open access with @anupress.bsky.social 👇

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ANU Press Coming Soon: Cover image of East Asia Forum Quarterly: Volume 17, Number 3, 2025

The latest issue of ‘East Asia Forum Quarterly’ explores how governments in Asia are navigating trade shocks, tech disruption and shifting power dynamics, and why regional cooperation is key to shaping a fairer global order.

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Rethinking Histories of Indonesia <p><em>Rethinking Histories of Indonesia: Experiencing, Resisting and Renegotiating Coloniality</em> provides a critical evaluation of histories of Indonesia from the formal period of colonisation to ...

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ANU Press New Release: Cover image of Rethinking Histories of Indonesia: Experiencing, Resisting and Renegotiating Coloniality

‘It is time for a critical evaluation of histories of Indonesia extending back to the formal period of colonisation right through to the present using the scholarly lens of coloniality and decoloniality to capture the enduring legacies of and processes that reproduce coloniality.’

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Our upcoming title explores Indonesia’s past and present through the lens of coloniality, examining how colonial power structures persist beyond the formal period of colonisation.

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Huge congratulations to our author Erik Eklund, whose powerful book ‘Politics, Pride and Perversion: The Rise and Fall of Frank Arkell’ has been shortlisted for the #NSWHA Community and Regional History Prize!

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Defying Beijing <p>The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aims to construct a Sino-centric transcontinental infrastructure network in Asia, Europe, Africa and beyond. Within this initiative, the China–Myanmar Economic Co...

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Societal Resistance to the Belt and Road' in Myanmar' today: doi.org/10.22459/DB....

Defying Beijing: Societal Resistance to the Belt and Road in Myanmar, by Debby Chan. Canberra: ANU Press, 2024. xi+284 pp. A$60.00 (paper); also available as an e-book free of charge on the publisher’...

“This is a well-crafted book that finally places societal actors and their relations with state institutions under much closer and richer empirical examination.”

Great review by @trissiawijaya.bsky.social‬ of ‘Defying Beijing’ in The China Journal.

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ANU Press New Release. Cover image of 'Ink and Land: Documenting Factionalism around a Prospective Mine in Papua New Guinea.'

A powerful study of resource extraction and inequality.

‘Ink and Land’ explores how indigenous groups in #PNG compete for land rights around the Wafi-Golpu copper-gold mine, shaped by law, politics and the promise of gold.

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Ink and Land <p><em>Ink and Land</em> is an ethnographic account of political and legal struggles over landownership in Papua New Guinea, in which competing factions seek recognition as customary landowners of Waf...

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ANU Press Coming Soon - Cover image of Ink and Land Documenting Factionalism around a Prospective Mine in Papua New Guinea

“We cannot be spectators to this change. We cannot become spectators on our own land." – Naga Jason

‘Ink and Land’ explores the political and legal struggles over landownership in #PNG, as groups compete to be recognised as customary landowners of the Wafi-Golpu copper-gold mine.

War 4.0 <p>This volume explores the impact of technology and new domains on future warfare. It identifies several themes, and highlights the increasing complexity of the security environment and the uncertain...

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