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In July 2024, a group of students from the Australian National University attended an in-country field school in Papua New…

This article draws on peer-reviewed research informed by analysis of Samoan media coverage. It reflects on Starlink’s entry into Samoa…

In Dhaka’s Mirpur district, fifteen-year-old Rahim repairs mobile phones at a roadside stall, earning 200 taka (US$1.80) daily. Deaf since…

Papua New Guinea is home to an estimated one million persons with disabilities (PWDs): roughly 10-15% of the population. Over…

After midnight in Suva, a van parks near a settlement. The lights come on. A team steps out. People approach…

Palm oil is in around half the products on your supermarket shelf. It is also one of the world’s most…

The dust may now have settled at Two-Mile Hill, but twelve hundred former residents of Port Moresby’s Rabiagini settlement remain…

The decision to allocate another $550 million in Official Development Assistance (ODA) grants to the Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for…

It’s becoming routine now. Papua New Guinea holds an election. There are irregularities, allegations, omissions, bad decisions and tragedies. The…

The subject of this article, Paul Collier, born in 1949, is a British development economist and Professor of Economics and…