This map explains nicely why seafaring was so important in days gone by. I was just soooo much faster to travel on water.

Another day, another secret? 🤷‍♂️. The Attorney-General’s Department have just advised me that the National Archives wants Mark Dreyfus to issue a secrecy certificate over evidence they want to use to oppose public access to historical (2001) Timor-Leste related docs. #auspol

We're getting season 2 in the works! Check out the story-map too. Like a good book, lots of nuggety detail

Fascinating analysis of Vanuatu's politics today from Kiery Manassah on devpolicy.org: devpolicy.org/how-kalsakaus-…

Drinks with a fellow in an airport lounge with a ‘Route 65’ tattoo are most surely good for anecdotes .

Even though it has been - gulp, 27 years since I left - Northern Ireland will always feel home. So nice to be back, even for a flying visit. Increasingly wish I could be one of those people who ‘divides their time between….’

Thank you, Joseph .

Good advice from Gordon Peake and Camilla Pohle in advance of the second U.S.-Pacific Island Forum Summit, which President Biden will host at the White House on Monday usip.org/publications/2…

At 5 mins in I contribute to a story of the Timorese that - like so many Irish people before them - have moved abroad for a better life. They have moved to close to where I was born RTTL,EP - RTTL WORLD NEWS || 23-09-2023 (LIVE STREAM) youtube.com/live/7qAqREquj… via YouTube

"Read, read, read! Read everything—trash, classics, good & bad & see how they do it. Like a carpenter who apprentices & studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window." happy birthday William Faulkner

Aretha Brown’s latest mural in Timor Leste. It inspired local artists who came & did 4 of their own. Afterwards we organised a big gig with local bands. I couldn’t help myself & jumped up with comrade Gil Santos 4 a Dili Allstars set! Awesome! 👍🕺

This paper by Dame Meg Taylor explores the challenges Pacific-led regionalism faces as it grapples with this evolving external power dynamic alongside our own international challenges of unity. asiasociety.org/policy-institu…

I'm going to be moderating this important discussion with Dr. Elizabeth Kopel, William Kipongi & @PaigeWestNYC Register and join us !

Pleased to see my former colleagues William Kipongi and Dr Elizabeth Kopel keeping up the evidence based advocacy on sorcery accusation related violence in certain parts of Papua New Guinea. Of course with the fabulous@PaigeWestNYC