A national peace strategy is needed to rebuild the crumbling foundations of peace in PNG from the ground up, say Miranda ...

As in 2022, this year’s federal election is shaping up as one in which questions of foreign policy are playing a major role. It was a surprise China–Solomon Islands security pact that hit the ...

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

At an early juncture in his engaging and enlightening book, Melanesia: Travels in Black Oceania, Hamish McDonald meets a cantankerous Fijian chief somewhere in the inlands of Viti Levu. The chief is ...

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

Last October I argued that Vanuatu was facing an economic emergency. Since then, the world has become far more dangerous and uncertain, while Vanuatu was struck by the most damaging earthquake in its ...

Papua New Guinea is a land of extraordinary potential. With vast natural resources, rich biodiversity and a young and growing population of approximately 12 million people, the country stands poised ...

Following our previous blogs on the age distribution of, and labour market outcomes for, Pacific migrants in Australia, we continue in this blog to use 2021 Australian Census data to examine the ...

If FATF grey-lists PNG again, there could be benefits -- but also unintended consequences and a display of hypocrisy, say Michael Kabuni and Grant Walton.