The current OECD Development Assistance Committee peer review of Australia's aid effort takes place at a critical moment, ...

The re-elected Labor Government‘s political capital should be used to improve the quality and measurement of Australia’s aid to PNG, says Terence Wood.

Tuvalu, a small island nation in the South Pacific Ocean, faces unique challenges as it strives for economic development and sustainability. With a population of almost 10,000 and a land area of about ...

What started out as a trivial story barely worthy of public attention has grown into a full-blown crisis for the Sitiveni Rabuka-led government in Fiji. A Commission of Inquiry (COI) report into the ...

Reproductive justice is the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children or not have children, and parent children in safe and sustainable communities. In a recent study, I explored ...

Abstract: The Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme is a guestworker program that enables people from Timor Leste and nine Pacific Island countries to work in Australia on temporary visas.

Christian Lohberger Christian Lohberger is President of the Solar Energy Association of Papua New Guinea and Vice-Chair of the UN Climate Technology Centre and Network.

The Pacific had an unusually high profile in the 2022 Australian election campaign. Labor was able with great effect to challenge the Coalition’s normally strong credentials in the national security ...

Taking a longer-term view, what strikes one is the lack of change in how the aid program is delivered. The next and final graph looks at how aid was delivered in 2010 with how it is delivered today: ...

Joel Nilon Joel Nilon is currently Senior Pacific Fellow at the Pacific Security College at the Australian National University. He previously served at the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat for nine ...

In the midst of the swift and brutal dismantling of USAID there has been a swell of voices in defence of aid. They have pointed to the good that aid does for the world’s most vulnerable; the ...

Abstract: Once upon a time governance was not a thing in development. It was only about thirty years ago that the ideas of a few academic scribblers began to filter into the development discourse and ...