The second in a two-part series for the Griffith Asia Insights blog.

The first in a two-part series for the Griffith Asia Insights blog.

A short summary on the second annual US-Pacific Islands Forum – an initiative I suggested over two years ago – that is critical to the political momentum behind US-Pacific links.

Here I share some thoughts on PNG’s recent decision to open an Embassy in Jerusalem and becoming only five nations to do so.

I explain PNG’s embassy move to Jerusalem here.

A short piece of mine on PNG and turning 48 on 16 September, 2023.

Discussing Neville Bonner – our first Indigenous Parliamentarian – in front of the Neville Bonner bridge. https://www.seanjacobs.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/RL-SEAN-JACOBS-NEVILLE-AIR.mp3

In this paper for Griffith University’s Asia Institute, I explore the implications of Papua New Guinea’s long-known police shortage and provide some practical recommendations on reversing this trend through political support.

As world and US geopolitical attention shifts to the Pacific islands, it’s clear that Pacific thinkers will be increasingly important – people who understand not only Washington DC but the rhythms of 15 genuinely unique Pacific island nations, covering 300,000 square miles.  The late US Ambassador to the Pacific, Steven McGann, was one of these people, serving as US Ambassador to Fiji from 2008 to 2011 – a representation that includes Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu.  It’s mildly ironic – with the distance of time – that McGann’s 2008 Pacific appointment by George W. Bush emerged when US and world […]

Some thoughts on what is likely one of the most consequential times in recent South Pacific history. Here I join Tess Newton Cain and the ABC’s Philip Adams on Late Night Live.