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Australian aid Members of Australia’s Emergency Action Alliance (EAA) and their local partners have released an appeal for those affected…

Welfare support is meant to be central to the success of the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme, yet little…

Pacific people have long known how to look after their own. Across the region, extended families, churches and communities have…

In June 2025, health workers in Tafea Province, Vanuatu, reported a cluster of severe respiratory illness among infants. Laboratory testing…

This year’s oil crisis has sent the costs of energy skyrocketing for many countries, including diesel-dependent Pacific countries, some of…

The term Global Syndemic was first coined in a 2019 Lancet Commission report by Swinburn et al., which described “obesity,…

At the end of July, New Zealand’s Immigration Minister Erica Stanford took the stage at the annual Recognised Seasonal Employer…

The Pacific has a communications problem that extends well beyond social media. The region covers almost one-third of the Earth’s…

Australia’s aid transparency architecture has changed significantly in recent years. Through AusDevPortal, renewed reporting to the International Aid Transparency Initiative…

In Papua New Guinea, young people are often framed as a “problem” linked to unemployment, crime and urban violence. High…