The latest OECD reporting on public and private climate finance shows that this finance reached a combined US$133 billion in ...

Cameron Hill unpacks Pauline Hanson's National Press Club remarks on Australian aid, China and corruption in the Pacific.

Devpolicy's latest poll on Australian attitudes to aid reveals disappointing, predictable and surprising findings about aid support.

The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have both recently made changes to their construction procurement policies. These aim to promote more employment and skills development for the ...

The Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV) provides up to 3,000 permanent residency visas for citizens of up to 12 Pacific island countries and Timor-Leste. To obtain a PEV visa, you first must enter a ballot, ...

A Pacific worker putting in 30 hours on an Australian farm, earning $937 and taking home just over $100 after deductions, as put to a Senate committee in 2022, became, for many people, a defining ...

Raymond Kamb John is a lecturer and Head of the Human Resource Management Division at the School of Business and Public Policy at the University of Papua New Guinea. His teaching and research focuses ...

This article reports on ongoing monitoring of mobile internet prices in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and shows that prices remained stable throughout 2025. This policy-relevant research is taking place amid ...

A recent Senate Estimates discussion between Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Greens Senator David Shoebridge and several Australian Government officials (from ~19:42 here) has revived a simple question: ...

The surge in global oil prices following the US-Iran conflict has exposed the extent of Pacific economies’ vulnerability to fuel supply shocks. At its peak, prices climbed to over US$118 per barrel, ...