Media, Reports and Publications
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The Consul: An insider account from Australia’s diplomatic frontline
by Ian Kemish with a Foreword by Julie Bishop, Published 19 July 2022 -
Bali bombings: A whole of government response
Tourism in Turbulent Times: Towards Safe Experiences for Visitors. (pp. 277-289), Roach, Jeff and Kemish, Ian (2005)
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Sir Julius Chan: PNG’s “last man standing”, The Interpreter, 5 February 2025
Julian Assange: Some consular cases are more equal than others. The Interpreter. 27 June 2024
Warning on Chinese Influence in BougainvilleThe Australian, 17 December 2023
Post-referendum: Charting Bougainville's independence vote, Griffith Asia Institute, 21 November 2023
Australia has long viewed the Pacific as a place of threats that must be contained. It’s time for this mindset to change, The Conversation, 10 November 2023
Moving beyond the Bougainville Peace Agreement, ANU National Security College, November 2023
Australia’s Pacific mindset: From Federation to today.(third of a three-part series) Griffith Asia Institute, 4 September 2023
Australia’s Pacific mindset: Isolation and multiple threats(second of a three-part series) Griffith Asia Institute, 28 August 2023
Whether on Russia or China, clearly Baerbock is driving Germany’s changeThe Interpreter, 25 Aug 2023
Strategic denial and Australia’s Pacific mindset (first of a three-part series) Griffith Asia Institute, 21 August 2023
Travelling overseas? Here’s what the embassy will – and won’t – do to help if you get in trouble
The Conversation, 14 April 2023
One Region, Two Narratives: The Pacific, Climate Change, and Security
(included in the Raisina Files 2023) Observer Research Foundation, 4 March 2023
Where does Australia’s relationship with PNG go next? Less talk about China, more about our neighbour’s own merits
The Conversation, 17 January 2023
Great powers and small islands: An Update from the Pacific and its engagement with Australia
(first of a two-part series) Observer Research Foundation, 19 December 2022
Great powers and small islands: The democratic powers need to “lean in”
(second of a two-part series) Observer Research Foundation, 19 December 2022
Bali 2002: when global terrorism first came close to home
The Interpreter, 14 September 2022
Travel, insurance and personal responsibility: when things go wrong in an unpredictable world
The Guardian, 28 August 2022
Arbitrary detention risks here to stay
The Canberra Times, 23 August 2022
Key to Pacific relationships is Education: ours, not theirs
(joint article with Joanne Wallis) The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 August 2022
Why Papua New Guinea urgently needs to elect more women to parliament
The Conversation, 5 August 2022
China's plans for the Pacific do not stop with Solomons.
Sydney Morning Herald, updated 25 April 2022 (first published April 22, 2022)
How should the next Australian government handle the Pacific?
The Conversation, 14 April 2022
The half hour that fundamentally split Germany from Russia
The Interpreter, 3 March 2022
Australia’s friends in Asia need to muscle up to help contain China and Russia
Joint article with Sir Stewart Eldon, Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, 10 February 2022.
Can the new German Foreign Minister make a difference?
Article in Lowy Institute’s Interpreter, 3 February 2022
Indonesia will take a big step on the global stage this year – are Australians paying enough attention?
Article in The Conversation, 20 January 2022.
PNG and Fiji were both facing Covid catastrophes. Why has one vaccine rollout surged and the other stalled?
Article in The Conversation, 11 October 2021.
Dankeschön Frau Merkel
Article in the Lowy Interpreter, 27 September 2021
For Aussies, it was the end of Innocence
Article in The Australian on the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, 9 September 2021
A dam has been breached: a COVID crisis on our doorstep shows how little we pay attention to PNG
The Conversation, 18 March 2021
Farewell, Grand Chief. Public obituary of Sir Michael Somare
Lowy Interpreter, 1 March 2021
Does China have what it takes for effective partnership in the Pacific?
Ambassador Partnership publication, 4 September 2020
China wants to be a friend to the Pacific, but so far it has failed to match Australia’s COVID-19 response
The Conversation, 31 August 2020
China’s push into PNG has been surprisingly slow and ineffective. Why has Beijing found the going so tough?
The Conversation, 3 July 2020
COVID-19 and the Asia-Pacific. Economic and Strategic Implications of the Pandemic
Ambassador Partnership publication, 17 May 2020
Notes on representing Australia in Papua New Guinea
Lowy Interpreter, 4 May 2020
Coronavirus Impacts Development Plans in Papua New Guinea
Bower Group Asia publication, 21 April 2020.
Australia-PNG: relationships are what matter
Lowy Interpreter, 10 Oct 2018
PNG is changing and we need to keep up
Lowy Interpreter, 23 Feb 2016
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Overcoming the Tyranny of Distance: Diplomacy Down Under (with Ian Kemish)
The Global Detail, 25 January 2023
Australia’s former consular services boss Ian Kemish urges Anthony Albanese to stop release of Bali bombmaker
by Steve Butler, The West Australian, 27 August 2022
Launch of The Consul: Critical reflections on international crisis response
Lowy Institute, 22 July 2022
Behind Australia’s diplomatic frontline
by Zoe McDonald, Contact Magazine (The Unversity of Queensland), 2022
Building a bridge from Brisbane to Berlin
by Zoe McDonald, Contact Magazine (The Unversity of Queensland), 2020
Interview with Ian Kemish, Australia's High Commissioner to PNG
Lowy Institute, 6 June 2012
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PNG Speaks, a website which presents interviews with Papua New Guineans about the country’s independence era.
With Jonathan Ritchie, Peter Spearritt, Marion Stell, David Lowe and Andrew Moutu.Established 2014.
‘Bali Bombings: a Whole of Government Response’
in Wilks and Prendergast (eds), Tourism for Turbulent Times, 2005
‘Managing Potential Conflict in the South China Sea’
in Evans, Gareth (ed), Cooperating for Peace, 1993
The breakdown in relations between the communist parties of Kampuchea and Vietnam, 1963-1975.
History Honours thesis, University of Queensland, 1987.