This is our final blog for the year. We’ll start up again from 6 January 2025. The editorial team of Robin Davies, Amita Monterola, Jackie Hanafie and Sadhana Sen would like to thank everyone who has ...

The monsoon rains have long been a harbinger of fertility and prosperity in Bangladesh, washing away salinity and bringing shakti, or wellness, to the land. It is perhaps fitting that the mass ...

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 ...

Understanding sub-national governance in Papua New Guinea is never easy as the data is hard to come by. To address this, I created the Provincial Budget Database earlier this year to track subnational ...

On 30 November 2024, Taiwan’s president Lai Ching-te embarked on a week-long visit to Taiwan’s three Pacific diplomatic allies: Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and Palau. During the trip, Lai made a transit ...

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

One of the challenges associated with tackling the slowly evolving and interlinked crises associated with climate change is that there are few visible milestones to mark their dismal progress and ...

This year’s Pacific Labour Mobility Annual Meeting (PLMAM), held under the banner “Collectively Building Resilience”, took place in Brisbane from 11 to 14 November 2024. Organised by the PACER Plus ...

After an hour and half of debate on the DPM’s motion, the Speaker ruled that despite the technical shortcoming, he would proceed with the VONC at 2:00 PM after the lunch break. Hu’akavameiliku ...

This is an edited version of a keynote speech delivered to the 2024 Australasian AID conference by Lady Roslyn Morauta, chair of the Global Fund’s board. Today, I want to share my passion for the ...

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 ...

Femili PNG is a Papua New Guinean NGO that runs family and sexual violence case management centres. Its mission is to provide care, support and change. It aims to provide a holistic approach and ...