Dr Tess Newton Cain

Dr Tess Newton Cain
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Dr Tess Newton Cain was a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy in 2014.

She is also a research associate with the ANU's Development Policy Centre. Previously a Lecturer in Law at the University of the South Pacific, Tess has worked in the region as an independent researcher/consultant since 2001. Based in Vanuatu, Tess has extensive experience in relation to development, governance, leadership and political engagement in Melanesia and elsewhere in the Pacific island region. Tess has an extensive record of academic publications, including co-authorship of Introduction to South Pacific Law (1999) and co-editorship of A Kind of Mending & Passage of Change (released by ANU e-press in 2010).

Tess has a degree in Law and a PhD in Law & Criminology, both from the University of Wales (Cardiff).

Chinese whispers and Pacific agency
Chinese whispers and Pacific agency
Pacific island countries are well aware of strategic risks, and want the issues that worry them most to be in focus.
New faces and absent friends in Pacific diplomacy
New faces and absent friends in Pacific diplomacy
The agenda of the recent Forum Foreign Ministers Meeting in Apia was marked as much by those attending as those missing.
Working with China in the Pacific
Working with China in the Pacific
Development partners, and Pacific nations themselves, need to be better coordinated.
Commonwealth Games: medals, babies, and nation-building
Commonwealth Games: medals, babies, and nation-building
Pacific island countries, especially, win big in a breakthrough event.
What to expect at the Melanesian Spearhead Group summit
What to expect at the Melanesian Spearhead Group summit
A Gordian knot of challenges awaits the first MSG leaders meeting in two years.
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