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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dear Pacific Institute Colleagues and Friends,</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Welcome back and Happy Lunar New Years! Despite the trying last few weeks of smoke, hail and recent
 fire we hope that 2020 can be a productive one to all our Institute members and affiliates. </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">The Pacific Institute board would like to extend our congratulations to fellow member and colleague Professor Margaret Jolly and her recent appointment as a Member of the
 Order of Australia on 25 January 2020 for her significant service to education, particularly to gender and Pacific studies.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Due to technical difficulties with our website we have only been able to add our fantastic Pacific Institute Annual lecture
<i>Insights on West Papua</i> to our Facebook page for the time being. Please follow the link below to hear the full lecture:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ANUPacificInstitute/videos/2514378935485678/?v=2514378935485678" target="_blank" id="LPUrlAnchor845013">Insights on West Papua Panel
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#666666">Last year the Pacific Institute was proud to host an unprecedented panel on West Papua bringing together diverse voices and scholarships to support and...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">Miranda Forsyth & George Carter</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></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 3.20, 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;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">
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