Even New Caledonia’s independence leaders have been unable to stop this latest spontaneous eruption of popular rage. France will have to compromise if there is to be a lasting solution.
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The plight of Australians trapped in New Caledonia should focus the government’s attention on France’s failures in the territory.
Four people have been killed in civil unrest in New Caledonia’s capital, Noumea. People on the ground say the crisis isn’t just political.
The author of a major new essay collection reflects on the shifting cultural and political realities in the Pacific, and why it remains an ‘unequal ocean’.
It’s important to understand that a First Nations consultative body such as the Customary Senate doesn’t pose a ‘threat’ to democracy or the rule of law.
Officially, sovereignty has been put to bed with three straight independence referendum defeats. But France is continuing to devolve powers to its territory in an ambitious power-sharing experiment.
Recently, The Guardian revealed its links to slavery and the cane fields – but less well-known is The Sydney Morning Herald’s links to sugar and the slave trade.
French President Emmanuel Macron is hailing the independence referendum as a victory for France. But many in the region see it differently.
Pro-independence parties had sought a delay for the third and final referendum due to the impact of the pandemic on the Indigenous Kanak population. It was denied.
The loyalists won the referendum vote this time, but the result was close enough to give hope to pro-independence supporters for votes in 2020 and 2022.
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Associate Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Queensland
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Visiting Fellow, ANU Centre for European Studies and Department of Pacific Affairs, Australian National University
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Directrice de recherche au CNRS (CNRS, CREDO, UMR 7308), histoire de la colonisation, histoire du Pacifique et de la Nouvelle-Calédonie,, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)
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Senior lecturer, Above the Bar School of Educational Studies and Leadership, University of Canterbury
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Vice-Chancellor, Auckland University of Technology
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Professor, Environmental Studies & Convenor, Melbourne Climate Futures Academy, The University of Melbourne
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Founder In Residence, Swinburne Innovation Studio, Swinburne University of Technology
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Founding Editor, Pacific Journalism Review / Te Koakoa, Auckland University of Technology
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Associate Lecturer, Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie
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Professor of Political Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Didactics in Geography, Pädagogische Hochschule Steiermark