New research examines DFAT's support for local leaders and coalitions as drivers of developmental change across the Pacific ...

The 2024 data brings some good news for the sector - even with inflation accounted for, donations have begun to rise, says ...

A survey suggests supporters of Bougainville’s independence need to do more than stress local support, say Anna Kapil and ...

The DAC's 2025 peer review finds Australia's aid program underfunded and overloaded with objectives, with past recommendations largely unimplemented.

“You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.” Although made in an American context, this observation by President Harry S. Truman has universal appeal. It highlights the unpredictable and treacherous ...

Surviving the first year with a coalition intact tends to look promising for government stability for the remaining parliamentary term. That was a recent assessment given to Vanuatu’s coalition ...

Source: Adapted from Gelu (2005:86), additions made for 2003–2018. The figure excludes acting prime ministers. Other scholars take the opposite view. They argue that political stability is only a ...

Policymakers in Pacific island countries (PICs) are eager to leverage the opportunities of the digital money revolution by developing payment systems, expanding financial inclusion, and mitigating the ...

Although the Trump administration is now attempting to walk back some of the most obviously murderous aspects of its aid freeze, its ramifications remain: the damage already done, the effects on work ...

In January this year, the managing director of Papua New Guinea’s Mineral Resources Authority declared that the proposal to develop what had once been touted as the world’s first deep-sea mine would ...

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 ...

The tumultuous dispute over the selection of the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), which led to Micronesian countries deciding to withdraw from the premier regional organisation, ...