The Embryo-Politics of New Guinea
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6267824 |
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| Authors | R S Parker (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 86-106 |
| Publication date | 1970-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Government and Opposition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0017-257X • E-ISSN: 1477-7053 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1477-7053.1970.tb00495.x |
| OpenAlex | W2027864048 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
AUSTRALIA ADMINISTERS THE GREATER PART OF THE NUMEROUS mountainous, volcanic, jungle-clad tropical islands to its north, collectively called New Guinea. Indonesia administers the lesser part west of the 141st meridian. There are about two and a quarter million people in the ‘Australian’ part, of whom only 35,000 are not indigenous Papuans or Melanesians. One-third of the population live in Papua, the more southerly section, which has been an Australian Territory since 1906; two-thirds in ‘New Guinea’, administered by Australia as a mandate since 1921, and a Trust Territory since 1946, when unified control of the two Territories under a single Administrator was confirmed by the Trusteeship agreement. The Australian administration has engaged in an active programme of economic and political development only since the end of the war with Japan (a good part of which was waged in the Territory
Administration (probate law · Archaeology · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Mandate · New guinea · Political science · Politics · Population · Quarter (Canadian coin · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Demography · Ecology · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Reproductive Health and Technologies
| Highly cited | No |
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