An Australian diplomat for thirty years, served in Australian diplomatic missions as a political and economic policy analyst in Rangoon, Nairobi, New Delhi, Kuala Lumpur and Washington DC before being appointed Australian High Commissioner in Harare (1998-2001) then Australian Consul-General in Noumea, New Caledonia(2001-2004) covering the French Pacific territories. Visiting Fellow, ANU Centre for European Studies, writing on France in the South Pacific. Author, France in the South Pacific: power and politics (2013), ANU epress.

Some recent publications

FISHER, D. (2024), Next steps for New Caledonia in the wake of Macron’s proposals, The Interpreter, Sydney:  The Lowy Institute, 27 May.

FISHER, D. (2024)  France, New Caledonia and the Indo-Pacific, The Strategist, Canberra:  Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 20 May, first appeared in French in Le Monde, 18 May.

FISHER, D. (2024)  Violence erupts in New Caledonia as independence supporters oppose legislation in Paris, The Interpreter, Sydney:  Lowy Institute, 14 May.

FISHER, D. (2024) New Caledonia:  uncertainty and division intensify as Paris imposes its will, The Interpreter, Sydney:  Lowy Institute, 16 April.

FISHER, D.(2024), New Caledonia’s self-determination process, in Kowasch M. and Batterbury, S.P.J. (eds.).  Geographies of New Caledonia-Kanaky: environments, politics and cultures. Springer Nature Switzerland, open access, Chapter 18, pp 229-251.

FISHER, D.  (2022) France and New Caledonia:  three independence referendums and an impasse, Occasional Paper, ANU Centre for European Studies, 21 November

FISHER, D. (2022) L’Indo-Pacifique et la souveraineté de la France en Océanie, Outre-terre 2022/1-2 (No 60-61), pp. 467-503

Masters of Philosophy, ANU 2012 (France in the South Pacific); Masters in International Public Policy, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins, Washington DC 1992