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Solomon Islands’ new Prime Minister, Matthew Cooper Wale, has promised the country that “change is coming”. He was elected prime…

When a Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme worker in an Australian abattoir gets fewer shifts one fortnight, what happens…

Despite decades of global evidence on how homophobia structures boys’ behaviours and peer hierarchies, it remains one of the most…

In March 2025 I suggested the often-heralded end of organised aid from the members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee…

Parental leave is an integral form of social policy that provides extensive benefits to children, parents, families and society more…

On 11 March 2020, the WHO declared a global pandemic. COVID-19 swept around the world exacting a terrible human toll,…

In February, Papua New Guinea launched a national gun amnesty and buyback scheme. An estimated 100,000 illegal firearms are circulating…

Regulatory frameworks for deep-sea mining (DSM) treat the ocean as a space to be measured, governed and economically valued. DSM…

The importance of media freedom is recognised each year globally on 3 May. This year the Pacific Island country of…

This is an edited version of a speech delivered at the launch of the third phase of the partnership between…