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.

As my colleague Cameron Hill has reported, there is considerable confusion as to whether aid to the Compact States is covered by Trump’s executive order to freeze US aid.Legally, it seems as if the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Last year, we tried to identify as accurately as possible the number of people with a Pacific Island heritage living in Australia counted in the 2006, 2011 and 2016 censuses. Now 2021 census data is ...

Foreign aid was increased by 4% over what had been projected last year to bring the 2024-25 aid budget to $4.961 billion, virtually unchanged from the (inflation-adjusted) 2023-24 level of $4.900 ...

2024 started terribly for Papua New Guinea as civil riots rocked the nation. What started as a protest by law enforcement officers (police, defence force and corrections staff) on 10 January over high ...

Anna Kapil. Anna Kapil is a Tutor at the University of Papua New Guinea. She completed a Master of International and Development Economics at the Australian National University.

Jonathan Zureo. Jonathan Zureo is a Lecturer at the Divine Word University, Papua New Guinea. He teaches data communications and cyber security in the Information Systems Department and the ...

Reading about the 2002 elections, is not very different from reading about the 2017 elections. Let’s hope those of 2022 will be different. What happened after the Morauta government is that the ...