Donors should not see aid as a means of pursuing their own interests at the expense of alleviating poverty and inequality, says Graham Teskey.

In the first part of this two-part series, we argued that while growing concerns with crime and lawlessness have led the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) and other leaders to call for tougher ...

USAID has been called many things in recent days but Robin Davies recalls it as perpetually harried, hamstrung and ...

Australians hold many mistaken beliefs about immigration, which might explain some negative attitudes, say Alyssa Leng, Ryan ...

By measuring refugee intake against past figures or population size, Australia fails to meet its global responsibilities, say ...

A new survey finds the Australian public are largely happy for Pacific migration policy settings to stay the same, say Leng, ...

Although the Trump administration is now attempting to walk back some of the most obviously murderous aspects of its aid freeze, its ramifications remain: the damage already done, the effects on work ...

In January 2025, Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape directed that all PNG citizens be registered with a PNG National Identity (NID) by 16 September 2025 to coincide with the country’s 50th ...

In previous blogs in this series, we’ve shown that while people in Australia are generally happy with current immigration policy settings toward the Pacific (part 1), there is less support for the ...

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