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<div>Further to the last line of Vicki’s message, in case some of you are not aware of it yet, there is a recent petition online at <a title="Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link" id="LPlnk230170" href="https://www.change.org/p/anu-vice-chancellor-brian-schmidt-act-to-preserve-studies-of-culture-history-and-language-of-the-asia-pacific-region-at-anu/c" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">https://www.change.org/p/anu-vice-chancellor-brian-schmidt-act-to-preserve-studies-of-culture-history-and-language-of-the-asia-pacific-region-at-anu/c</a>
that includes many comments by its signatories about Pacific Studies at ANU and the effect of the CHL restructuring on them.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>"Pacific.Institute" <<a href="mailto:pacific.institute-bounces@mailman.anu.edu.au">pacific.institute-bounces@mailman.anu.edu.au</a>> on behalf of "mail=Vicki. au" <<a href="mailto:Vicki.Luker@anu.edu.au">Vicki.Luker@anu.edu.au</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Friday, 27 May 2016 12:34 am<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Maree Tait <<a href="mailto:maree.tait@anu.edu.au">maree.tait@anu.edu.au</a>>, Nicole Haley <<a href="mailto:Nicole.Haley@anu.edu.au">Nicole.Haley@anu.edu.au</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>Michael Wesley <<a href="mailto:michael.wesley@anu.edu.au">michael.wesley@anu.edu.au</a>>, Julien Barbara <<a href="mailto:julien.barbara@anu.edu.au">julien.barbara@anu.edu.au</a>>, Michael Cookson <<a href="mailto:michael.cookson@anu.edu.au">michael.cookson@anu.edu.au</a>>,
"<a href="mailto:pacific.institute@anu.edu.au">pacific.institute@anu.edu.au</a>" <<a href="mailto:pacific.institute@anu.edu.au">pacific.institute@anu.edu.au</a>>, Meg Keen <<a href="mailto:meg.keen@anu.edu.au">meg.keen@anu.edu.au</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [ANU Pacific.Institute] PI statement on Future Resourcing of PacLII<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Resent-From: </span>Alan Rumsey <<a href="mailto:alan.rumsey@anu.edu.au">alan.rumsey@anu.edu.au</a>><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">To follow from this discussion, how are cuts to CHL viewed from the outside - including from universities sometimes regarded as ANU’s rivals in Pacific
Studies?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">Here is a post from Alex Golub at University of Hawaii.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><a href="http://savageminds.org/2016/05/26/canberras-loss-is-manoas-gain-as-the-anu-walks-away-from-decades-of-excellence/">http://savageminds.org/2016/05/26/canberras-loss-is-manoas-gain-as-the-anu-walks-away-from-decades-of-excellence/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">Re the losses to Pacific expertise resulting from the cuts, Alex comments:
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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white">‘It is, therefore, amazing to me that the university’s administration could so damage the university’s standing by scoring an own goal when it’s job is supposed to be strengthening Australia’s international reputation,
not weakening it.’<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white">Alex Golub is, of course, not alone.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white">Vicki<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Pacific.Institute [<a href="mailto:pacific.institute-bounces@mailman.anu.edu.au">mailto:pacific.institute-bounces@mailman.anu.edu.au</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Maree Tait<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 27, 2016 12:57 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nicole Haley <<a href="mailto:nicole.haley@anu.edu.au">nicole.haley@anu.edu.au</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Julien Barbara <<a href="mailto:julien.barbara@anu.edu.au">julien.barbara@anu.edu.au</a>>; Michael Wesley <<a href="mailto:michael.wesley@anu.edu.au">michael.wesley@anu.edu.au</a>>;
<a href="mailto:pacific.institute@anu.edu.au">pacific.institute@anu.edu.au</a>; Michael Cookson <<a href="mailto:michael.cookson@anu.edu.au">michael.cookson@anu.edu.au</a>>; Meg Keen <<a href="mailto:meg.keen@anu.edu.au">meg.keen@anu.edu.au</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ANU Pacific.Institute] PI statement on Future Resourcing of PacLII<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I could not agree more. Whilst external funding has supported most of the work on the Pacific at ANU, very little has been done to maintain this work by the institution. Yet Pacific scholarship has added immensely to the intellectual
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<p class="MsoNormal">It would heartening to see some response from the ANU administration to carry Pacific scholarship forward. Surely the Pacific is an area of immense interest to Australia. <o:p></o:p></p>
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On 27 May 2016, at 10:29 AM, Nicole Haley <<a href="mailto:nicole.haley@anu.edu.au">nicole.haley@anu.edu.au</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">As you are aware the previous round of aid cuts saw a reduction in DFAT’s funding to SSGM for the 2015/16 and 2016/17 financial years.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Regrettably these cuts resulted in job losses affecting eight SSGM and Pacific Institute colleagues.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The recently announced round of aid cuts directly affect the Pacific Regional budget – from which PacLII, SSGM, the Pacific Leadership Program and a number of other incredibly important programs are funded. All
these programs are at risk, although we have been informed that no decisions have been taken yet.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">In view of the recent and impending retirements of several Pacific Institute members, the fact SSGM lost 8 Pacific Scholars as a result of May 2015 aid cuts, and at least 4 Pacific scholars in CHL have now been
advised that they will not be transitioning to the new school I hope that the Pacific Institute will make an equally strong statement about continued funding for SSGM.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The ANU has systematically disinvested in Pacific scholarship over the past two decades by not replacing departing Pacific scholars with Pacific scholars. Instead they have sought to principally rely on external
funding to support Pacific scholarship and teaching. With the impending loss of four more Pacific scholars and the possibility of further cuts to SSGM we should all be worried about the future of Pacific Studies at ANU.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">From:</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"> Pacific.Institute [<a href="mailto:pacific.institute-bounces@mailman.anu.edu.au">mailto:pacific.institute-bounces@mailman.anu.edu.au</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Miranda Forsyth<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 27 May 2016 10:41 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:pacific.institute@anu.edu.au">pacific.institute@anu.edu.au</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ANU Pacific.Institute] PI statement on Future Resourcing of PacLII</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Pacific Institute members<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There is news this week of a serious threat to the continued funding of PacLII, an online legal resource based at Emalus Campus in Vanuatu. See:
<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-25/pacific-corruption-fighters-worried-as-online/7445926">
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-25/pacific-corruption-fighters-worried-as-online/7445926</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The PI Board has approved a statement that we have put online that expresses support for the continuation of funding and stresses the importance of the resource (see news item one on the website:
<a href="http://pacificinstitute.anu.edu.au/">http://pacificinstitute.anu.edu.au/</a>). Please use these ideas with anyone of influence to try to ensure a stable future for PacLII.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Miranda<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Miranda Forsyth</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"> | Associate Professor | RegNet School of Regulation and Global Governance | ANU
College of Asia & the Pacific | The Australian National University | Room 3.2, Coombs Extension Building | Building 8, Fellows Rd, Acton, ACT, 2601 Australia | T: +61 2 6125 1505 | M: 0429903094 | </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"></span><a href="mailto:miranda.forsyth@anu.edu.au"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">miranda.forsyth@anu.edu.au</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"> | </span><a href="http://regnet.anu.edu.au/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:purple;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">regnet.anu.edu.au</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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