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

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

Chair: Kirsten Bishop, Assistant Secretary, Development Performance and Advisory Services Branch, Development Effectiveness and Enabling Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade The Devpolicy ...

Kamalini Lokuge, Medical Epidemiologist, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, ANU The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, ...

Dr Don Niles is Acting Director and Senior Ethnomusicologist at the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies. He is also Honorary Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology in the School of Culture, ...

H.E. Sir W. Noel Levi, CSM, CBE, Kt. was the distinguished sixth Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum from February 1998–May 2004; Member of Parliament for New Ireland Province (1977-1987).

The New Zealand coalition government’s recent changes to Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) policy settings were a topic of much discussion at this year’s annual RSE conference which was well-attended ...

The new media development policy being proposed by the Papua New Guinea Communications Minister, Timothy Masiu, could lead to more government control over the country’s relatively free media. The new ...

This article is the second in a two-part series on Wave Two of the Pacific Labour Mobility Survey. Read part 1. Labour mobility is often presented as a “triple win”, for workers and their families, ...

Most Pacific island countries got off relatively lightly with last week’s Trump “reciprocal” tariff announcement. Ten were given tariffs of 10%, the minimum handed out. (Timor-Leste also got a 10% ...

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