This paper was presented in the panel 'Pacific nations? Understanding attitudes to national identity in Melanesia and Timor-Leste'. The three papers in this panel present the preliminary findings of a new survey of attitudes to national identity among tertiary students in Solomon Islands, PNG, and Timor-Leste. The findings cast new light on the attitudes of potential future elites towards regional, ethnic, intergenerational and linguistic faultlines in the region, and the challenges of building a cohesive sense of political community and national identity.
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Paper presented at 'Oceanic Transformations', the 3rd Conference of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies (AAAPS), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 08-11 April 2010