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.

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong was putting it mildly when she noted in her Solomon Islands press conference in June that “there’s been a positive response” to the new Labor government’s ...

Browse our research repository covering a wide range of topics related to Australian aid, PNG and the Pacific, and global development policy. You can also access the Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies ...

District Services Improvement Program (DSIP) funds are constituency development grants which members of parliament in Papua New Guinea (PNG) exert considerable control over. Similar funds exist in a ...

Femili PNG’s mandate is to support survivors of family and sexual violence access the services they need. A new report summarises the main findings from Femili PNG’s client feedback surveys over the ...

2024 started terribly for Papua New Guinea as civil riots rocked the nation. What started as a protest by law enforcement officers (police, defence force and corrections staff) on 10 January over high ...

Femili PNG’s mandate is to support survivors of family and sexual violence access the services they need. A new report summarises the main trends and patterns found from Femili PNG’s client data from ...

Last year, we tried to identify as accurately as possible the number of people with a Pacific Island heritage living in Australia counted in the 2006, 2011 and 2016 censuses. Now 2021 census data 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.

Foreign aid was increased by 4% over what had been projected last year to bring the 2024-25 aid budget to $4.961 billion, virtually unchanged from the (inflation-adjusted) 2023-24 level of $4.900 ...

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.

This is an edited extract of the 2022 Mitchell Oration given at the Australasian AID Conference in Canberra in November. I have been working in the space of ending violence against women and girls for ...