The current OECD Development Assistance Committee peer review of Australia's aid effort takes place at a critical moment, ...

The re-elected Labor Government‘s political capital should be used to improve the quality and measurement of Australia’s aid ...

What started out as a trivial story barely worthy of public attention has grown into a full-blown crisis for the Sitiveni Rabuka-led government in Fiji. A Commission of Inquiry (COI) report into the ...

This edited collection compiles some of the most compelling writing on Pacific migration from the Devpolicy Blog from July 2023 to April 2025. Author biographies are provided at the back of the ...

This article is a further instalment in the Pacific Family Matters series. With the Australian Labor Party returning to power, Pacific island governments will appreciate the continuity in diplomacy ...

Reproductive justice is the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children or not have children, and parent children in safe and sustainable communities. In a recent study, I explored ...

Suggested citation: Citation: Kanan, L 2025, “It’s not illegal to be pregnant”: Research report on reproductive justice and the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme, Development Policy Centre, ...

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.

Joel Nilon. Joel Nilon is currently Senior Pacific Fellow at the Pacific Security College at the Australian National University. He previously served at the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat for nine ...

Abstract: Once upon a time governance was not a thing in development. It was only about thirty years ago that the ideas of a few academic scribblers began to filter into the development discourse and ...

As my colleague Cameron Hill has reported, there is considerable confusion as to whether aid to the Compact States is covered by Trump’s executive order to freeze US aid.Legally, it seems as if the ...

Jordan Newton. Jordan Newton is a private political and security risk analyst. He has previously worked as a consultant for Australian Government-funded justice and health development programs in ...