How can we change migration and mobility policies for a changing climate? With Henrietta McNeill-Stowers & Christina Newport, we identify 12 unique, but interlinked climate (im)mobility policy clusters based on existing policies and practices around mobilities in the Pacific.

🚨Delighted to announce the winner of the Boyer Prize for best article published in the AJIA in 2024. Warm congrats to @liammoore.bsky.social for this paper analysing the complexity of 🇦🇺relations with Pacific states. #OpenAccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... #AcademicPublishing

Pretty amazed and excited to say that I've been awarded the Boyer Prize for the best journal article of 2024 in the Australian Journal of International Affairs for my article 'A Dysfunctional Family' www.tandfonline.com/journals/caj...

The ICJ’s ruling means Australia and other major polluters face a new era of climate reparations | Harj Narulla

In this blog, I explain how the ICJ’s historic Advisory Opinion on Climate Change addresses displacement, international protection and ongoing statehood researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces...

The ICJ is a legendarily conservative legal body. Drawing on @drnajimagi.bsky.social 's live mega-thread last night hear are a few of the jaw-dropping moments for me in the Climate Change Advisory Opinion. 1. Licensing of new fossil fuel projects may be wrongful & expose states to int'l litigation

As the dust settles from the ICJ AO last night, attention turns to how states will react. @rregenvanu.bsky.social made it clear that while the AO might be legally non-binding, diplomatically it's a different case.To remain partners with the Pacific, states must step up on climate.

Justice Wigney, said it would parliament (or the High Court) to change things. Otherwise, he said the applicants and others only had recourse to advocacy, protest and the ballot box. The irony, of course, being that governments ignore the first and are making the second illegal. /2

If I can sum up what just happened as neatly as possible: a Federal Court judge found the Australian government had ignored climate science when setting emissions targets, appeared to want to find for the applicants, but said his hands were tied by the law of negligence in Australia. /1

Very pleased to chair a Roundtable on the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Norms Research in International Relations at #OCIS2025. @antjewiener.bsky.social @sassangholiagha.bsky.social

Fantastic roundtable discussions on The Oxford Handbook of Norms Research in International Relations (forthcoming) with @philorchard.bsky.social @carlawinston.bsky.social Jacqui True @liammoore.bsky.social #OCIS2025

The President of Pacific island nation #Palau speaks out for #Australia to be the host of the next UN climate conference in 2026, #COP31. This yes to Australia is simultaneously a no to Turkey who also wanted to host COP31. I found his arguments are convincing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What are climate (im)mobilities and how can policy and practice around them be better? New typology of climate (im)mobility policy clusters is out now from myself and Henrietta McNeil! academic.oup.com/migration/ar...

I'll be speaking alongside Yetta Gurtner on Tuesday next week for Pint of Science. $10 tickets, 6.30pm at Townsville Brewing Co. If you are around Townsville come past! pintofscience.com.au/event/disast...

New research shows successive NZ governments keep opting for expensive short-term fixes after floods and other disasters. But there are two other choices available.

New figures on internal displacement globally are out today from @idmc-geneva.bsky.social. Nearly 70% of global internal displacement in 2024 occurred in the context of disasters www.internal-displacement.org/global-repor...

The Oxford Handbook on Norm Research in International Relations, edited by @sassangholiagha.bsky.social, @antjewiener.bsky.social, and myself, now has a webpage (and a cover!) and will be out in November. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

How anxieties about national security could shape the election outcome: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-29/labor-liberal-pacific-policies-climate-change-china/105224594

Come and work with me! We’re hiring a new Laureate Postdoctoral Fellow with expertise in international disaster law to join us at the Evacuations Research Hub @kaldorcentre.bsky.social - apply by 15 May external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

With the US & UK retreating from foreign #aid, #Australia's new budget is more than numbers — it's a statement of intent. But what should Australia's role really be in the #Pacific? A quick, smart read here: shorturl.at/XV9yi @anubellschool.bsky.social

Great read here, another argument for why Australia needs to be doing more and doing better in the Pacific Responsibility and anxiety in the ‘Pacific family’: AUKUS as a source of ontological insecurity From @vahamilla.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Well worth a read. @mereoni.bsky.social and @romiteshkant.bsky.social paper on "The Pacific Ocean of peace: a promise or a paradox?" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Vocal pushback on the limited ambition in this deal from Pacific states. www.rnz.co.nz/internationa...

'What Should Australian Aid in the Pacific Look Like after the Retreat of USAID?' My thoughts on why Aus should be doing more to support Pacific communities to design and implement their own dev projects, particularly on climate mobilities openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstreams/a...

Among the inanities of today's US tariff decisions: 10% tariffs on the Marshall Islands and on "Micronesia" (Federated States of, I presume). These countries have Compacts of Free Association with the US, meaning economic support, access to US programs, freedom of movement, and no duty on imports.

Australians facing steep insurance premium hikes in a world of disasters are sharing a global problem. The solutions are out there, but they are complex.

"The moat of oblivion". Excellent article on Australia's colonial history in Papua New Guinea: doi.org/10.1080/1031...

A Blue Pacific rules-based order: "Our home, our rules"

Vanuatu PM says he will ‘revisit’ 2022 security agreement with Aus www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... Climate is the test - something Aus already acknowledged when it signed the Boe Dec. Aus also needs to get much better at working with Pacific 'friend to all enemy to none' style diplomacy

“‘Development’ has long been the realm of the progressive side of politics, often at odds with conservative government instincts,” writes Soli Middleby in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/end-aid-we-know-it

Nice to see my article on contestation by Pacific states through norm weaving now has an issue!

Emma Hutchison’s work on emotions and international relations defined and informed a generation of scholarship. We have put together a special collection honoring the legacy of Emma's work, including her RIS article and 8 others which have built on it. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Australia is becoming an uninsurable nation. There may only be one solution | Nicki Hutley

With the impending insurance crisis in LA, its important that not only are people afforded immediate assistance, but they are not forced to return or remain in adequate housing due to a lack of other options. Hard questions need to be asked about where and how we rebuild after disasters as well.

No doubt. Columnized about this yesterday: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This is shaping up to be a big big problem in LA. Climate change is altering risk too quickly for policymakers or insurance companies to keep up. Not an issue isolated to the US by any means as well, seeing similar on a smaller scale in places of Australia.

Submission time! Incredibly after 2 ys of hard & focused collaboration w/ an absolutely outstanding group of Section Editors “The Oxford Handbook on Norms in International Relations” was submitted w/ 57 chapters today. 🙏🏻🙏🏻 @sassangholiagha.bsky.social @philorchard.bsky.social @cenunihh.bsky.social

' While I was inspired by Vanuatu’s opening remarks, I was left disappointed by Australia. As a close neighbour of the Pacific Island nations Australia has a duty to stand with the Pacific and support what they are striving for.' womensagenda.com.au/latest/pacif...

Now up before the ICJ: Tuvalu. No state has a higher stake in climate change. Tuvalu's survival is at risk. Tuvalu has amended its constitution to survive without territory /1 devpolicy.org/tuvalu-const...

'In return Papua New Guinea has agreed to sign what has been called a "parallel" agreement on "strategic trust" between the two countries, which is clearly designed to stop China from gaining a significant security foothold in the Pacific country.' www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

“Climate change is making geopolitics less stable, which harms climate action. This will worsen climate change … and so on. The risk is that this “doom loop” runs faster and faster” theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-...

New Nauru-Aus treaty announced. Aus PM says 'we are both part of the Pacific family. This treaty reflects that' while Nauru Pres says 'Australia is not just a friend, but family.' Plenty of questions to be asked about whether Aus has acted as family here though www.dfat.gov.au/geo/nauru/na...

Nauru's President David Adeang meets PM Anthony Albanese in Canberra. The two leaders are expected to sign a "historic" new treaty later today. Exact shape of it is not yet clear, but broad expectation is Aus will provide budget support, Nauru will make commitments on security

According to @stephendziedzic.bsky.social, Canberra is gearing up for a series of announcements informally dubbed 'Pacific week' next week - this further highlights the contradictions between DFAT's work in the region and the AG's office at the ICJ and how difficult this tightrope is to walk.

Vanuatu’s climate case at the International Court of Justice poses a real challenge to Australia’s standing in the region.