After the federal election was announced, the Development Policy Centre and its partners — ACFID, the peak body for Australian development NGOs, IDCC, the peak body for Australian development ...

On Friday, 28 March at 5:40 PM in Australia, I received a Telegram message from my mother, back home in Yangon, in our family chat. She said, “Hi”, and I responded back, “Hello”. The next message was, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Most Pacific island countries got off relatively lightly with last week’s Trump “reciprocal” tariff announcement. Ten were given tariffs of 10%, the minimum handed out. (Timor-Leste also got a 10% ...

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.