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Kirsty Anantharajah
Ms Kirsty Anantharajah

Kirsty is a research associate on Professor Neil Gunningham’s DFAT funded project, Harnessing financial markets and institutional investment to increase the penetration of clean energy in the Asia Pacific. She is also a PhD student, her proposed project explores the impacts of climate finance regulation and governance in Fiji.
Kirsty Anantharajah is a lawyer admitted in the ACT with a background in refugee protection. She has previously worked in the fields of human rights law, transitional justice and gender based violence. Kirsty has degrees in Arts and Law (Hons I) from the Australian National University.
Research interests
- Science and Technology Studies
- Law And Society
- Development Studies
- Climate Finance
- Energy Aid in the Asia Pacific Region
- Human Rights Regulation
- Refugee Law
- Gender Based Rights
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Mobile phones in immigration detention: capturing lessons for post-pandemic transformation?- PhD scholar Kirsty Anantharajah writes for Green Agenda
PhD scholar Kirsty Anantharajah, explores the implications of prohibiting mobile phones from immigration detention

The Climate Finance Initiative and capacity building in Fiji
Climate change presents a profound threat to our region, one most felt by our Pacific Island neighbours, manifesting in rising seas, extreme weather events, widespread loss, damage, and displac

RegNet PhD scholar writes on her experience as a Tamil Australian in 'We, Refugees'
RegNet PhD scholar Kirsty Anantharajah has written about her experience as a Tamil Australian in the new volume edited by RegNet visitor and former staff member, Emma Larking, We Refugees.
Current

Climate Finance Initiative
The Climate Finance Initiative, located within the world-renowned School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) in the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific, aims to p

Author(s): Kirsty Anantharajah
Date of publications: 2019
Publication type: Journal article

Author(s): Cynthia Banham, Kirsty Anantharajah
Date of publications: 2019
Publication type: Journal article