Bougainville needs continued peacebuilding support, not just efforts to strengthen law and justice, say Sinclair Dinnen, Dennis Kuiai and Miranda Forsyth.

Businesses, individuals and governments have faced difficulties obtaining foreign exchange (FX) in PNG over the last decade.

The 2022 redistricting effort could undermine basic government functions and Parliament needs to fix the problem urgently, says Thiago Cintra Oppermann.

The 2024-25 federal budget update, released in December, contained additional funding to support the provision of $100 million over five years in budget support to Nauru as part of a new bilateral ...

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Among the more than two dozen executive orders issued by President Donald Trump during his first day in office was an order to pause US development assistance for 90 days to undertake an “assessment ...

Femili PNG’s mandate is to support survivors of family and sexual violence access the services they need. A new report summarises the main trends and patterns found from Femili PNG’s client data from ...

As communities across Vanuatu welcomed a new year and contemplated multiple aspiring political candidates ahead of the 16 January snap election, a popular reggae song was making the rounds.

The noble push to achieve “Freedom from Hunger” gained momentum after World War II with the formation of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, which “strives to eradicate hunger ...

The Australasian AID Conference was held on 3-5 December 2024 in Canberra. Conference presentations are now available on the Devpolicy ANU website. View keynote addresses and selected conference ...

Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, Samoa’s first female Prime Minister, emerged from Parliament on 21 January 2025 with her leadership intact, despite deep divisions within the ruling Fa’atuatua i le Atua Samoa ua ...