Improving the performance of its tourism sector is the only way Vanuatu can fund its own earthquake recovery, says Peter ...

A national peace strategy is needed to rebuild the crumbling foundations of peace in PNG from the ground up, say Miranda ...

Leadership selection needs to balance technical merit and political consolidation to maintain the quality of governance, says Rifky Pratama Wicaksono.

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 ...

If FATF grey-lists PNG again, there could be benefits -- but also unintended consequences and a display of hypocrisy, say Michael Kabuni and Grant Walton.

While the direct impacts of Trump’s tariffs on the Pacific are limited, the indirect impacts could be huge, say Howes, Wood and Chowdhury.

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.

At an early juncture in his engaging and enlightening book, Melanesia: Travels in Black Oceania, Hamish McDonald meets a cantankerous Fijian chief somewhere in the inlands of Viti Levu. The chief is ...

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.

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 ...