At its triennial national conference, the Australian Labor Party adopted its latest policy platform which says that the party ...

This seminar examines how institutional design can incentivise cooperation, competition, or conflict by analysing cases of civil service administration in Afghanistan and Papua New Guinea. Speaker: ...

This seminar presents a new research project examining the experiences of payday loan users in PNG, including why people borrow, how loans are accessed, the costs and repayment conditions involved, ...

Gordon Peake on Australia's branded aid merchandise in the Pacific and whether new Commonwealth restrictions will curb the ...

In the last fortnight the Australian government has loudly celebrated the signing of two new security treaties in the Melanesian region. The first, the Nakamal Agreement, was signed with Vanuatu, with ...

Kath Taplin is a practising lawyer who has worked on aid and development initiatives in the Asia Pacific for the past decade. She was Femili PNG’s Senior Development Manager from early 2015 to ...

Scott Waide is a journalist based in Lae, Papua New Guinea. He is the former Deputy Regional Head of News for EMTV and has worked in the media for 24 years.

Mahomed Patel is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the ANU. He has done consultancies for development agencies, including DFAT and WHO, to ...

Dr Elizabeth Daley is a Brisbane-based land governance and gender/social inclusion specialist. She serves as the Chair of the Board of the Land Portal Foundation and a freelance Principal Consultant ...

Shaun Gessler is an anthropology PhD student at the ANU Department of Pacific Affairs. His thesis investigates the relationship between a Chinese-run nickel mining project in Papua New Guinea and the ...

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

Philippe (Phil) Brewster is the Pacific Livelihoods and Economic Empowerment Technical Adviser at Save the Children Australia, with a strong focus on livelihoods, economic empowerment, climate change ...