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

Can the Pacific Resilience Facility and PIF's emergency mechanism deliver as a Super El Niño tests the region's new climate ...

Much of Ron Duncan’s research was concerned with the Pacific and he lived in Fiji from 2003 to 2007 when he headed the Pacific Institute of Advanced Studies in Development and Governance (PIAS-DG) at ...

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 ...

Emeritus Professor Ronald (Ron) Charles Duncan AO was my former boss and mentor, and over time became a close family friend. With Ron, Premila and I always said we got “two friends for the price of ...

Terence Wood, Research Fellow, Centre for Democratic Institutions, ANU; Alex Cifuentes, Intern, Development Policy Centre, ANU. When they are surveyed, Australians appear to be supportive of aid work.

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% ...