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Title: Positive or Negative Tidal Change: A Commentary on the Proposed Compact of South Pacific States
Contributor(s): Reavell, Ron  (author)
Publication Date: 2006
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4844
Abstract: This chapter examines the 2003 Australian Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee's inquiry which recommended closer ties with Australia and the South Pacific states by way of a formal compact and argues that formalising such a compact, however broadly based, will be difficult to achieve considering Australia's tendency to act as a regional 'Big Brother'. Although such a compact is a worthwhile ideal for the region's Island states, for it to succeed Australia may need to fully acknowledge and come to terms with its historical past and previous quasi colonial role in the South Pacific. In order to garnish full support for the proposed compact, Australia also needs to engage, in a spirit of complete reconciliation, with the difficulties and problems faced by its indigenous citizens. Not to do so may well jeopardise the whole compact ideal.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: The Eye of the Cyclone, v.Book Two: Governance and Stability in the Pacific, p. 27-42
Publisher: University of the Sunshine Coast and Rock Mountain Corp Pty
Place of Publication: Sippy Downs, Australia
ISBN: 0975191330
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 160510 Public Policy
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 940204 Public Services Policy Advice and Analysis
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/7744170
Editor: Editor(s): Ivan Molloy and Ron Reavell
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
School of Environmental and Rural Science

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