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

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

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 ...

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

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Law, Governance and Policy, The Australian National University.

Over the years psephologists and pundits have made use of all manner of different approaches to predict election outcomes. Polls are, of course, the most obvious one and — notwithstanding the ...

Papua LNG is a significant liquified natural gas (LNG) project for Papua New Guinea (PNG). Led by TotalEnergies, it will develop the Elk/Antelope gas fields in the Gulf of Papua, which hold large gas ...

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Law, Governance and Policy, The Australian National University.

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Law, Governance and Policy, The Australian National University.

This is an edited version of a speech given at the 2025 PNG Update conference dinner at the UPNG Waigani campus on 22 August 2025. I’ve been asked to talk this evening about the history of the ...

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Law, Governance and Policy, The Australian National University.

This report sheds light on the nature of political will towards anti-corruption reform in PNG, through a rapid political economy analysis approach, with a view to informing and improving policy ...