Associate Professor Simon Batterbury

Environmental studies, Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne; Visiting Professor, Political Ecology, Lancaster University

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Sciences & Technology

New Caledonia referendum: A flashpoint for decolonisation

Due to longstanding ethnic and political divisions, New Caledonia is caught in a new round of geopolitics and its referendum outcome is unlikely to please everyone

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