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Too close to ignore : Australia's borderland with PNG and Indonesia / edited by Mark Moran and Jodie Curth-Bibb.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Border security--Australia.
- Border security.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 293 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- Less than five kilometres from Australia's most northern islands in the Torres Strait lies the southern coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG). The people living on the PNG side of the border along the South Fly coast live in abject poverty, with a near total absence of services and infrastructure. The disparity in income, housing and health outcomes when compared with their nearby neighbours and relatives in the Torres Strait Islands, is extreme. The border is the focus of a range of interventions by the Australian and Queensland governments, including border protection, quarantine, marine resource management, and infectious disease control, including an alarming outbreak of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. Restrictions are increasing on trading, fishing and access to Australian services. However, questions remain as to whether this focus is having unintended consequences, increasing the destitution and frustration on the PNG side, in turn exacerbating the security threat to Australia. And as the Australian border hardens, the Indonesian border beckons. This book presents the results of three years of research into the unique social and political geography of the borderland. The Torres Strait Treaty between Australia and PNG serves to construct a complex institutional layering, a tiered economy and a hierarchy of identities between those South Fly villagers who have rights under the Treaty to travel into Australia, and those who do not. This creates a politics of expectation and frustration that permeates everyday life along the South Fly coast, through which development projects must navigate.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- Glossary
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Mark Moran and Jodie Curth-Bibb
- The state of the borderlands
- A borderlands theoretical framework
- The research
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Chapter 2 The sociohistorical context of the borderlands
- Kevin Murphy
- The people of the borderlands before colonisation
- The establishment of colonial borders
- The southern border with Australia
- The western border with Indonesia
- Chapter 3 Contesting the Treaty
- Jennifer Corrin
- Torres Strait
- The law
- International law
- Australian law
- The law of Papua New Guinea
- Obtaining legal advice and representation
- Dispute resolution options
- Mechanisms in the treaty
- Points of contention
- Exclusion of villages from the treaty arrangements
- The meaning of 'traditional activities'
- Attendance at court by traditional inhabitants
- Authority to ban visitors
- Overstayers
- Bridging the gap
- Traditional means
- Other initiatives to fill the gap
- Acknowledgement
- Chapter 4 The politics of distribution
- Peter Chaudhry
- The Torres Strait border in historical perspective
- Inequality in the borderlands today
- Inequalities between the Torres Strait Islands and the South Fly
- Services and livelihoods in the South Fly
- Treaty and non-Treaty village differences
- Hierarchies of privilege and opportunity in the borderlands
- Practices of exclusion in the everyday construction of the border
- Access to health care
- Opportunities for trade
- Labour and money
- Regulating love
- Disaffection, desire and the politics of distribution
- Resistance, legibility and 'dependence'
- Distributional labour and a rightful share
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 5 Governance.
- Mark Moran and Jodie Curth-Bibb
- Conceptualising governance in the borderland
- PNG's services and decentralised financing
- Service delivery deficit
- Decentralised governance structures
- Decentralised finances and political accountability
- Australia's extrajurisdictional influence in PNG
- Joint management
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs
- Building Resilience in Treaty Villages program
- Australian patronage of Treaty villages
- Cross-border health
- Limiting cross-border development
- Limiting labour mobility
- Limiting remittance flows
- Limiting cross-border trade
- Limiting marine livelihoods
- Chapter 6 Health at the margin
- Geoffrey Miller
- A brief history of the TB response
- Policy and referrals
- Why people cross
- Aid posts
- Infrastructure, equipment and supplies
- Access to services
- PNG patients in the Torres Strait
- Daru and the corners
- TB, the environment and the response
- NCDs and the double burden of disease
- Health security
- Discussion
- Social determinants
- Borderland health zone
- Chapter 7 Fisheries
- Sara Busilacchi, Kevin Murphy and James Butler
- Institutional framework for marine resources
- How local social dynamics adapt to the state-centred institutional framework
- Torres Strait Islanders
- Indonesian Papuans
- Consequences for shared marine resources
- Addressing governance mismatches in the borderland
- Chapter 8 Ok Tedi Mine
- Sara Busilacchi, Jodie Curth-Bibb and James Butler
- Customary patterns of movement of Fly River inhabitants
- The Ok Tedi Mine disaster
- Ok Tedi's role in changing movement patterns
- Social and environmental impacts of the migration of inhabitants from mine-affected areas to Daru
- Social impacts
- Environmental impacts
- Finding a way out.
- Notes
- Chapter 9 WWF's 'Gift to the Earth'
- Garrick Hitchcock
- Tonda Wildlife Management Area
- WWF: Wasur National Park, Indonesia
- Tonda's problems
- WWF programs in south New Guinea, 1996-2010
- Community Land Care Project and Trans-Fly Conservation Areas Project
- Tri-National Wetlands of Oceania Program
- Community Development and Resource Conservation Program
- Trans-Fly Ecoregion Program
- Successes and failures
- WWF narratives of TWMA and south New Guinea
- WWF relationship with local people
- 10 Conclusion
- Mark Moran
- Review of the 'Guidelines for Traditional Visitors'
- Increasing aid assistance
- Water supply
- Transportation
- Village economic development
- Cross-border trade and Indonesia
- Labour mobility
- Connectivity and mobile money
- Direct payments
- Shared governance
- Sharing security
- Notes.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-522-87548-3
- OCLC:
- 1202469994
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