Australia-Burma relations
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About 375,000 results (August 2017)
Source/publisher:
Various sources via Youtube
Date of entry/update:
2017-08-22
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Websites/Multiple Documents
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Australia-Burma relations
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English, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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The pages include information about services for Australian travellers overseas, advice about immigration and visas, information about Australia?s foreign policy and development assistance programs, and general information about Australia.
This website also contains links to other websites which outline the roles and responsibilities of the different agencies and departments of the Australian government.
Source/publisher:
Australian Embassy Burma
Date of entry/update:
2010-10-14
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Websites/Multiple Documents
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Australia-Burma relations
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English
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"For as long as I can remember Australian governments have maintained Myanmar and Burma as the two names for one of Southeast Asia?s most important countries. Now — on websites and in public statements — consistency reigns among Australia?s officialdom.
This recently updated fact sheet sums it up neatly: ?The Australian Government refers to the country as Myanmar?.
Check out the government?s travel advice website for the newly Myanmarised presentation. I did a cheeky Control-F for ?Burma? and came up with nothing. Downunder, at least, the linguistic transition has occurred.
And, for those who are interested in some archival matter, my April 2012 thoughts on the topic are available here."
Nicholas Farrelly
Source/publisher:
"New Mandala"
Date of publication:
2012-11-16
Date of entry/update:
2014-07-17
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Websites/Multiple Documents
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Australia-Burma relations
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English
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Individual Documents
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Suspend Military Ties; Press for Accountability
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"Australia should avoid dealings with Myanmar that play down its military’s egregious rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne. Human Rights Watch urged the Australian government to immediately end military ties with Myanmar.
A meeting on January 29, 2020 between Australia’s ambassador to Myanmar, Andrea Faulkner, and Myanmar’s military commander-in-chief, Sr. Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, overlooked the general’s responsibility for grave crimes committed against ethnic Rohingya Muslims since 2017. Min Aung Hlaing used the meeting to bolster his public image and to present a picture of normal relations between the Australian and Myanmar militaries that undercuts efforts by other governments to isolate a commander implicated in serious abuses. “Australia should be sanctioning Min Aung Hlaing, not taking photos and exchanging gifts with someone who should be investigated for mass atrocities,” said Elaine Pearson, Australia director at Human Rights Watch. “In its meetings with Myanmar officials, Australia should never give the impression that it’s business-as-usual with no repercussions for Myanmar’s ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya.”
In 2018, the United Nations-backed Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar recommended that Myanmar’s top military generals should be investigated for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The UN report named six high-ranking military commanders, including Sr. Gen. Min Aung Hlaing..."
Source/publisher:
Human Rights Watch (USA)
Date of publication:
2020-02-02
Date of entry/update:
2020-02-21
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Individual Documents
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Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Human Rights Watch Reports on Burma/Myanmar, Australia-Burma relations
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Exclusive: Australia accused of giving legitimacy and credibility to a military accused of mass atrocities
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"The commander-in-chief of Myanmar’s defence forces – recommended by the UN for investigation and prosecution for war crimes and genocide – has met with Australia’s ambassador and says he wants to train more of his officers in Australia.
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing is the supreme commander of Myanmar’s military, known as the Tatmadaw, which has been accused of genocide in its systematic persecution of the ethnic and religious minority Rohingya.
In “clearance operations” begun in August 2017, thousands of Rohingya were murdered, women and girls were gang raped, while pregnant women were targeted for torture and murder. Other people were burned alive in their homes, and more than 700,000 Rohingya fled over the border to Bangladesh.
Australia’s ambassador, Andrea Faulkner, met Min Aung Hlaing on 29 January at the Bayintnaung Villa in the capital, Naypyidaw. The pair exchanged gifts and posed for photos. Human Rights Watch has said Australia’s decision to take the meeting risked giving legitimacy and credibility to a military accused of mass atrocities..."
Source/publisher:
"The Guardian" (UK)
Date of publication:
2020-02-20
Date of entry/update:
2020-02-21
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Individual Documents
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Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Genocide, Discrimination against the Rohingya, Burmese refugees in Bangladesh, Australia-Burma relations
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"The euphoria about the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Indonesia and elsewhere in South and Southeast Asia (SEA) has been felt since 2017, particularly following the country’s participation in the BRI Summit in Beijing that year, where Indonesia (along with other SAARC and ASEAN member states) was expected to receive massive investments from China to support several infrastructure projects.
This year, the debates concerning the BRI are again becoming prevalent after Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Binsar Panjaitan as Indonesia’s representative signed 28 BRI projects last April. Among the various debated subjects is the growing concern about the real nature of the BRI. Is that a Chinese developmental initiative or a geopolitical instrument that uses debt-trap as a tool to bring targeted countries into the desired terms..."
Source/publisher:
"Modern Diplomacy"
Date of publication:
2019-11-19
Date of entry/update:
2019-11-21
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Individual Documents
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“One Belt, One Road” initiative, Burma/Myanmar's relationship with the Global Economy, Burma's economic relations with China, Australia-Burma relations, China-Burma relations
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"They may not be the first two countries that come to mind when people think of the Pilbara, but last week Australia’s ambassadors to Myanmar and Kuwait visited the region.
The visits were part of the Australian Government’s Global Heads of Mission Meeting, in which all ofAustralia’s heads of mission headed to Canberra to consider Australia’s response to foreign trade, development policy challenges and opportunities.
They then travelled to locations around regional Australia to help the community understand how the Australian Government’s work overseas delivers benefits to all, and to listen and respond to local perspectives.
Australia’s ambassador to Myanmar Andrea Faulkner visited Karratha and said WA was the State which had the most, in a business sense, to do with her patch.
“There’s real opportunities in Myanmar for the oil and gas sector,” she said
“Woodside is Australia’s biggest investor in Myanmar.
“They’re involved in exploration of LNG on the West coast.”
While in Karratha, Ms Faulkner met with the Murujuga Aboriginal Corportation, Yara Pilbara, Woodside, the City of Karratha, the Pilbara Development Commission, Bush Lolly Cafe, Karratha Senior High School, Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation and Rio Tinto..."
Source/publisher:
The West Australian (Australia) via "Pilbara News"
Date of publication:
2019-09-22
Date of entry/update:
2019-09-23
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Individual Documents
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Australia-Burma relations, International Relations, Burma/Myanmar's Foreign relations, general
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"Regular readers of The Interpreter will know that, over the past few years, this site has closely followed the Australian government?s efforts to grapple with the diplomatic implications of the formal change of Burma?s name in 1989 to Myanmar. The indications are that this saga may finally be over..."
Andrew Selth
Source/publisher:
"The Interpreter"
Date of publication:
2016-08-10
Date of entry/update:
2017-05-01
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Individual Documents
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Australia-Burma relations
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English
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Introduction...
The Historical Contexts...
Australian Ambassador to Myanmar...
Working Under Military Authoritarian Rule...
Myanmar in 2000: Ready Or Not For Change?...
Engagement Versus Disengagement...
Australia?s ?Limited Engagement? Initiatives...
Encounters with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi...
Bilateral Sanctions and Successful Alternative Approaches...
Early Australian Public Diplomacy Possible in Myanmar...
Reflections on Coming to Terms with Myanmar: Personally and as Convener, ANU Burma/Myanmar Update 2004?13...
Image Section...
Bibliography.
Trevor Wilson
Source/publisher:
ANU Press
Date of publication:
2016-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2016-04-28
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Individual Documents
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Australia-Burma relations
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English
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Australian involvement and
the Shan?s resistance: "SMEC, an Australian-based services
company that morphed out of the Snowy
Mountains Engineering Corporation, was
recently handed a petition containing
23,717 signatures opposing a giant dam on
the upper Salween River at Mong Ton that
would effectively divide Myanmar?s warshocked
Shan state in half. It was not the
first time it had been told the idea stinks.
Undeterred, SMEC went back to the
protest ing villages and continued its work.
Later the Burma Army took five protesters,
later releasing them. Some were beaten
and slapped.
SMEC is the public face of a consortium
planning the dam. Its task, conducting the
Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (EIAs and SIAs), takes it into
potentially affected villages. SMEC finds
itself heroically taking one for the gang: the
disaster-prone Three Gorges Corporation;
Sinohydro, which has been involved in
several controversial dam projects in the
past; the Myanmar Electricity Power
Enterprise; and state energy monopsony
Thai Electricity Generating Authority.
There are rumours that a UK team of
engineers, Malcolm Dunstan and Associates
—involved in dam building in Myanmar in
the past and, because of human-rights
violations on the sites, placed on the UK
Burma Campaign?s ?Dirty Company? list—
might also be involved, but those could
not be substantiated.
SMEC has been meeting the people of Shan
state, seeking agreement to build the Tasang
dam at Mong Ton. It has faced serial
rejection (a story detailing that rejection,
with a critique of SMEC?s procedures, was
removed from Asian Correspondent after
legal threats from SMEC). Meetings have
been cancelled due to local hostility. Shan
women have risen to their feet, their voices
rich and challenging, telling the SMEC
representatives that, having survived years
of war, they refuse to let their ancestral lands be drowned to produce unneeded electricity for China
and Thailand..."
Melody Kemp
Date of publication:
2015-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2016-01-31
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English
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"There were plenty of hours leaning against walls, sitting on step-ladders or standing on steps at the recent Assocaition of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Naypyitaw. With the limited information reporters were getting from ASEAN leaders in the Summit rooms, I turned to the reporters to ask them of their impressions of the Summit, and more broadly, Naypyitaw..."
Olivia Cable
Source/publisher:
"New Mandala"
Date of publication:
2014-11-24
Date of entry/update:
2014-12-14
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Dialogue/reform/transition in Burma/Myanmar - analyses and statements, Australia-Burma relations
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English
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"...In Myanmar, just five days ago, The Department of Immigration announced it was giving an unspecified amount to the country over a five year period to strengthen ?capacity for stronger border management?. Indeed Scott Morrison, at the beginning of the year, strangely referred to borders as ?Australia?s greatest asset? and since that time has channeled millions in aid and Department of Immigration and border security funding to export border technologies throughout the region under the rhetoric of ?anti-people smuggling?, including in Cambodia. In the Myanmar case, it is clear that this is a blatant attempt to deal with the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya asylum seekers trying to make their way to Australia. There are currently 140,000 Rohingya in displacement camps and an unknown number who have already tried to make the perilous trip southwards..."
Tim Frewer
Source/publisher:
"New Mandala"
Date of publication:
2014-12-05
Date of entry/update:
2014-12-14
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Individual Documents
Category:
Australia-Burma relations
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English
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"In his speech, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott highlighted the fact that trade between ASEAN countries and Australia today is eighty times larger than it was forty years ago. Furthermore, two-way investment is $155 billion dollars. Today, one million people visit Australia every year from ASEAN countries, and 2.5 million Australian?s visit ASEAN countries every year. More than 100,000 students from ASEAN countries study in Australia every year. According to Abbot this is a sign of the strength of the relationship between Australia and the nations of ASEAN.
Abbott observed the weight ASEAN countries now have. For example, Malaysia is on the verge of becoming a high-income country. Indonesia is on its way to being a democratic superpower of Asia and Singapore?s GDP per head is higher than Australia?s. These ?indisputable facts? are a tribute to the work which ASEAN countries have done. Abbott sees Australia as having played its part to advance the region. Abbott made mention that Australia will set up an ASEAN-Australia Council, which seeks to work on people-to-people, institution-to-institution and business-to-business links in Asia. Furthermore, Australia will establish a Mekong business initiative, which seeks to develop small businesses in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Abbott hopes ASEAN countries are now aware of the New Colombo Plan, where students from Australia are going to the region to compliment the flow of students from Southeast Asia to Australia..."
Olivia Cable
Source/publisher:
"New Mandala"
Date of publication:
2014-11-13
Date of entry/update:
2014-12-13
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Individual Documents
Category:
Australia-Burma relations
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English
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Burma?s military government dominates the country?s politics and its economy.[1] It has continued to repress political opponents (including Aung San Suu Kyi) and its record in economic development and human rights is considered widely to be poor. While a number of Western governments have condemned the Burma regime?s policies, its relations with neighbouring countries (most notably China) have facilitated the regime in resisting external influence. The government has recently unveiled a new Constitution and has declared that elections will be held in 2010. Attention will focus in the next two years on whether the proposed elections will simply result in the consolidation of the military?s dominance or provide an avenue for some change. This Background Note outlines major recent developments in relation to Burma and Australia?s policies towards it.
Frank Frost
Source/publisher:
Parliment of Australia
Date of publication:
2009-10-16
Date of entry/update:
2010-10-14
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Individual Documents
Category:
Australia-Burma relations
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English
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On October 5, 2009, Human Rights Watch sent a letter to Australia?s Foreign Minister Stephen Smith, urging Australia to work closely with its Asian neighbors to ensure a united front in addressing the human rights situation in Burma.
Kenneth Roth
Source/publisher:
Human Rights Watch
Date of publication:
2009-10-05
Date of entry/update:
2010-10-14
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Individual Documents
Category:
Australia-Burma relations
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English
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STEPHEN SMITH
Source/publisher:
Australian Government
Date of publication:
2010-02-10
Date of entry/update:
2010-10-14
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Individual Documents
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Australia-Burma relations
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English
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Radio Australia?s new Burmese language service began on 9th November 2009, with two news broadcasts. Radio Australia?s Chief Executive, Hanh Tran, said Burma?s elections next year and increased international attention on the military-led country prompted the decision to start the new radio service.
Source/publisher:
Australia Network/Radio Australia
Date of entry/update:
2010-10-14
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Australia-Burma relations
Language:
Burmese, English
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"Breaking ranks with the international community, Australia�s Foreign Minister Alexander Downer became the first Western official to visit Burma in decades...
It is clear that despite calls from the international community the junta has no real commitment to improving human rights or bringing about real political change, in Burma. It only took 24 hours in Burma to confirm that for Australian Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer.
After meeting with junta leaders and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Downer told the world that the junta has no current plans to discuss national reconciliation with the opposition. He also told the Thai Foreign Minster in Bangkok that the time had come to increase the pressure on Burma. Now, Australia says it will put more public and moral pressure on Rangoon to show good faith and begin talks with the opposition. On his visit to Burma, Downer�s remarks made many observers think that Australia was considering a policy shift on Burma.
Unlike most Western democratic countries, Australia previously believed it could persuade the junta with friendly "limited engagement" to respect human rights and restore democracy in Burma. Australia never held much faith in isolating Burma and has continued to maintain diplomatic ties with Rangoon..."
Dr Myint Cho
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" Vol. 10, No. 8
Date of publication:
2002-10-00
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Individual Documents
Category:
Australia-Burma relations
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English
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Will Australia?s approach to the human rights problems in Burma succeed where others have failed? No, writes Josef Silverstein.
Josef Silverstein
Source/publisher:
"The Australian"
Date of publication:
2000-08-22
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Constructive Engagement, Australia-Burma relations
Language:
English
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