Gordon Peake on Australia's branded aid merchandise in the Pacific and whether new Commonwealth restrictions will curb the ...

After a disastrous first couple of decades following independence in 1968, Nauru turned its economic fortunes around in the ...

This post summarises a research dissertation on the same topic. In May 2024, a landslide in Enga Province buried more than 2,000 people and displaced an estimated 1,680 others. Both Prime Minister ...

Much of Ron Duncan’s research was concerned with the Pacific and he lived in Fiji from 2003 to 2007 when he headed the Pacific Institute of Advanced Studies in Development and Governance (PIAS-DG) at ...

The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have both recently made changes to their construction procurement policies. These aim to promote more employment and skills development for the ...

We’ve just received the results back from our latest poll of Australians’ attitudes to aid. The results were simultaneously disappointing, all too predictable and surprising. Let’s start with ...

The Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV) provides up to 3,000 permanent residency visas for citizens of up to 12 Pacific island countries and Timor-Leste. To obtain a PEV visa, you first must enter a ballot, ...

Australian and international aid agencies have launched emergency appeals in response to the Venezuela earthquake. So far, the disaster has resulted in over 1,400 deaths, with tens of thousands of ...

Survey data suggest that in Port Moresby (POM), feeding an entire household a nutritious diet for a single day requires 45% of a low-skill worker’s daily wage. The healthy diet burden eases somewhat ...

A Pacific worker putting in 30 hours on an Australian farm, earning $937 and taking home just over $100 after deductions, as put to a Senate committee in 2022, became, for many people, a defining ...

Late last year, at the Australasian Aid and International Development Conference at the Australian National University, I attended a session titled “Whose question, whose answer? Participatory design ...

During her widely reported appearance at the National Press Club last week, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson was asked (at 58:06) about her views on Australian foreign aid spending in the context of ...