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.

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.

Australian aid facilities aren't the problem — defaulting to them is. Why MEL and conditions matter more than the model ...

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

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, ...

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: ...

Curtain, R. & Prior, R., 2026, ‘The welfare support system for PALM workers’, Policy Brief No. 24, Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra ...

Facebook is strangling Pacific journalism, with some news organisations losing up to 70% of their audience almost overnight. The Pacific Newsroom recorded a 70% fall in Facebook views. Melanesian News ...

As demonstrated in the previous article in this two-part series, Pacific publishers have seen sharp, unexplained falls in their Facebook reach, at a time when much of the region depends on 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 ...

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.