Too Close to Ignore
Australia’s Borderland with Papua New Guinea and Indonesia
$66.85
- Paperback
277 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2020
Summary
Less than five kilometres from Australia’s most northern islands in the Torres Strait lies the southern coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG). The people living on the PNG side of the border along the South Fly coast live in abject poverty, with a near total absence of services and infrastructure. The disparity in income, housing and health outcomes when compared with their nearby neighbours and relatives in the Torres Strait Islands, is extreme.The border is the focus of a range of interventions b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522875478 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522875475 |
| Author: | Jodie Curth-Bibb, Mark Moran |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 277 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 422g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 135mm |
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About The Author
Jodie Curth-Bibb
Mark Moran leads the Development Effectiveness Group at the Institute for Social Science Research, University of Queensland. His career spans academia, nonprofits, government and consultancy. He has worked in a range of international and indigenous contexts, including Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste, China, Bolivia and Lesotho, and remote Indigenous communities in Australia. His writing has appeared in the Griffith Review, the Conversation and the Australian newspaper. His book Serious Whitefella Stuff- When Solutions Became the Problem in Indigenous Affairs (MUP) was published in 2016.Jodie Curth-Bibb is a Teaching and Research Fellow for the University of Queensland’s Institute of Social Science Research. She has worked across research and practice for over ten years with a focus on public sector reform and institutional capacity development in Pacific Islands countries. Jodie previously held the position of Pacific Manager for the University of Queensland’s International Development group where she designed major capacity building and teaching programs for the PNG public service.
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