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Asia and the Pacific at Anu ASIA AND THE PACIFIC AT ANU ANU College of Asia & the Pacific CONTENTS Asia and the Pacific at ANU 2 Rising without wires 4 Research 6 Peace builder wins major academic prize 8 Getting human rights right 9 Undergraduate education 10 Homeward bound 11 Headline act 12 Graduate coursework 14 Digging up the dirt 15 Graduate research 16 Silent saviours 16 Our global community 18 Asia Pacific public policy 20 Water win 21 Dealing with disasters 22 Asia Pacific culture, history & language 24 Hook, line and thinker 25 Who’s a pretty boy then? 26 Asia Pacific politics, international elationsr and strategic studies 28 A different kind of war story 29 A life more ordinary 30 Hard lessons in soft power 32 Asia Pacific regulatory institutions 34 Victim-offender meetings cut future crime 35 Doves of war 36 China in the World 38 Giving chopsticks the chop 39 Civilising China 40 Selected College initiatives 42 College facts 43 Online resources 44 ANU College of Asia & the Pacific 1 ASIA AND THE PACIFIC AT ANU As Tony Abbott faced the College’s buildings while dignitaries introduction to Indian civilisation; Stephen consult a world expert on the Australian Wurm, the world’s foremost expert on toughest test of his short economy and population trends, the the languages of New Guinea; and Prime Ministerial tenure East Timor general election, the Chinese Hedley Bull, a key scholar on international over the Australia-Indonesia leadership, or the Bougainville peace relations. process. Being based in Canberra, our spying crisis, the ABC’s 7.30 Nowadays the College is home to more But it’s not just at home that we are than 200 experts, researchers and program called on ANU actively engaged with the issues facing teachers, boasting the likes of Professor expertise goes beyond the professor Hugh White to the region. Our staff and students can be Hilary Charlesworth, a world-renowned boundaries of teaching and make sense of the saga. found all across the Asia Pacific working expert on international law and human with and learning from our neighbours. rights; along with Professor Nicholas research, to providing the federal It’s not unusual for academics from the From untangling the causes of conflict Evans, a leading linguistics expert who ANU College of Asia and the Pacific to and planting the seeds of peace, to is working tirelessly to save endangered government and diplomats alike appear on Australia’s national public helping conserve Cambodia’s forests; languages across the globe. broadcaster. from charting Myanmar’s political Motives for studying at the College are with all manner of advice on the Professor Desmond Ball, a colleague transformation, to running the numbers as varied as the number of disciplines it of White’s from the College’s Strategic on China’s economic rise; from offers. To gain fluency in a language of Asia Pacific region. and Defence Studies Centre, was widely uncovering ancient Pacific settlements Asia and the Pacific and study languages quoted after speaking to Four Corners lost to climate change, to advising on not taught elsewhere in Australia. To live about China’s alleged theft of blueprints Oceania’s social policies. Our people help and study in the region. To prepare for from the Australian Secret Intelligence tell the story, understand the day-to- a career overseas with an international Organisation’s new $630 million day and map the future of Asia and the non-government organisation (NGO). To headquarters in Canberra. Pacific. work for the government, or in private enterprise. Not that we’re bragging. It’s just that we’re Teaching expertise and academic proud of who we are and what we do. excellence have been cornerstones of In the ‘Asian century’, the College’s Asian and Pacific studies at ANU since focus on Asia and the Pacific is more Being based in Canberra, our expertise early days. relevant now than ever before; and ANU goes beyond the boundaries of teaching is indisputably the best place to prepare and research, to providing the federal The College is proud to include among the next generation of regional specialists government and diplomats alike with all its former research and teaching staff Sir for the challenges of this century, and manner of advice on the Asia Pacific region. John Crawford, a pioneer in the building of an Asia Pacific economic and policy Australia and the region’s place in it. On any given day you are likely to see community; AL Basham, author of what a diplomatic car parked in front of the remains today the most widely-used 2 Asia and the Pacific at ANU ANU College of Asia & the Pacific 3 RISING WITHOUT WIRES HAMISH McDONALD takes A mobile-money storage system called The effort to stop the tide is probably EKA gives villagers their first bank futile. Mobile phones give the young The cell phone a look at India’s mobile accounts, with money disbursed by their own space and encourage people phone revolution. participating shopkeepers. The similar generally to do new things. drew India’s M-PESA scheme in Kenya now channels “As a disruptive tool, the cell phone suited With India again in the doldrums after a a third of its GDP. democratic India admirably,” say Jeffrey people into spell as the rising counterweight to China, Health agencies are working on check- and Doron. the story of its explosive uptake in mobile ups via cell phones. Welfare payments relations with phones is a corrective one. Writing about the great Indian “mutiny” will be delivered directly through phone of 1857, the historian Christopher Bayley In 1998, India had only 880,000 mobile accounts, avoiding corrupt officials. saw the newly-introduced universal and the record- phones. Last year it counted 900 million “The cell phone drew India’s people into cheap postal system helping Indians for its 1.22 billion people – a leapfrog over relations with the record-keeping capitalist organise their revolt and blindside the keeping capitalist fixed-line phones, which grew from 18 state more comprehensively than any British rulers. The mobile phone may million to 33 million. previous mechanism or technology,” say be setting off more mutinies under the state more It all happened despite efforts by Jeffrey and Doron. present raj. bureaucrats and politicians to impose comprehensively There is an underside too: A long-time foreign correspondent in conditions set to make it fail and retain pornographic video-makers, scamsters, Asia, Hamish McDonald is Journalist in state monopolies, say two Australian- than any previous extortionists, and terrorists all make use Residence at the ANU College of Asia based India specialists, media-watching of mobile phones. and the Pacific. political scientist Robin Jeffrey and mechanism or ANU College of Asia and the Pacific And while the mobile phone is yet to anthropologist Assa Doron. create political and social revolution, technology. Jeffrey and Doron point out that it has In their colourful new study, The Great given the less powerful “vast new vistas Indian Phone Book (Hurst & Co, of entertainment and a chance, however London, £24.99) they explore how, in a slight, to even up life’s odds a little.” technological version of the great Indian rope trick, this vast and complicated The mobile phone enormously helped country grows despite the antics of its the sweeping 2007 election win in Uttar leaders. Pradesh state of Mayawati Kumari’s party of former Untouchables. Smart phones These have been spectacular at times. allow citizens to video officials taking The sale of 2G mobile spectrum in 2008 bribes or stuffing ballot boxes. saw applicants kept waiting three months for details, only to be told at 2.45pm “The ability it gave to low-status people one day that they had to lodge deposits to communicate with each other and for letters of intent between 3.30pm with sympathetic politicians and officials and 4.30pm that same afternoon. The marked a profound break,” the authors spectrum went to speculators for US$300 write. “In the past there were words low- million who on-sold it for four times the caste people should not hear and things price; it might have fetched up to US$40 they should not know. And to get close billion through open auction, India’s enough to a senior official or politician auditor-general later reported. to expose wrong-doing or sloth was impossible for many people.” Even so, the sector has sent a cascade of modernity throughout India, from telecom The mobile phone gives men and billionaire Sunil Mittal down to local women a private way to talk, evading entrepreneurs running phone towers, tight social controls, to the horror of sale-rooms, and repair shops. conservative elders. The key has been affordability. Low-cost The authors note that one caste handsets and pre-paid charge cards sold organisation banned its unmarried girls by trusted local shopkeepers, have given from cell phones because “girls fall in love Indians the most economical service after they come into contact with boys anywhere, with 50 rupees (88 cents) through mobile phones”. New brides buying over 200 minutes of talk. often have to surrender their cell phones, as part of a dismantling of their previous Boatmen on the Benares burning ghats social networks. Recent horrific rapes in get bookings, fishermen in Kerala sell urban India get blamed on the taunting their catch before landing, tribal people in video image of the mobile wali [girl] who remote parts of Orissa get news in their “danced, smiled, drank, smoked and own language, all on their mobiles. wore skimpy clothes – all with a mobile phone in her hand.” 4 Asia and the Pacific at ANU ANU College of Asia & the Pacific 5 Our College has some big thinkers and some big ideas about Asia and the Pacific.
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