Browsing: Development & Policy

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

Recent developments surrounding Papua New Guinea’s entry into Australia’s National Rugby League (NRL) through the PNG Chiefs have generated understandable…

Consider a small island developing state (SIDS) such as Tonga. In 2023, remittance inflows reached approximately 43% of GDP, making…

Every few years, the global health community confronts a version of the same crisis. A major donor announces funding cuts,…

Papua New Guinea’s many parties in parliament make for fragmented politics. In previous posts, one of us (Laveil) used the…

In the last fortnight the Australian government has loudly celebrated the signing of two new security treaties in the Melanesian…

On 3 October 2015, a US gunship repeatedly fired upon the Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) trauma…

A little over a decade ago, the UK was regarded as both a financial and intellectual powerhouse in global aid…

On 6 July 2026, China launched a second intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test in the Pacific Ocean, following a previous…

In my career as a jobbing consultant, I thought I had become reasonably adroit at predicting what “sensitivities” a draft…