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 ...

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Law, Governance and Policy, The Australian National University.

As I write, my eyes keep straying to the magnificent snow-capped peaks of the Andes out of the aeroplane window to my left. I am heading south, away from the Lithium Triangle, where I have spent a ...

The advent of a more punitive geopolitical environment under the second Trump administration creates fresh challenges to the diplomatic agency of Pacific Island states. Since the 1970s, these small ...

Over the years psephologists and pundits have made use of all manner of different approaches to predict election outcomes. Polls are, of course, the most obvious one and — notwithstanding the ...

Supporting PNG university students to return to their home districts and share their learning with citizens is the most effective way to ensure rural communities are armed with greater knowledge in ...

Papua LNG is a significant liquified natural gas (LNG) project for Papua New Guinea (PNG). Led by TotalEnergies, it will develop the Elk/Antelope gas fields in the Gulf of Papua, which hold large gas ...

At the start of last year, we analysed trends in the value of the kina (the PNG currency). We noted that although, as per government policy, the kina had fallen against the US dollar, it had hardly ...

This report covers the 2025 Australian Aid Transparency Audit run by the ANU Development Policy Centre. The Centre audits Australian aid program transparency every three years – previous audits were ...

This is a further instalment in the Pacific Family Matters series. At the 2024 launch of the Pacific Academy of Sciences, Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Mata’afa highlighted the critical role of ...

PNG is finally holding its local level government (LLG) elections this year. The result of these elections is important, as LLGs are PNG’s lowest tier of government and provide services directly to ...