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Jose Ramos-Horta, the president of Timor-Leste, for his own political purposes, last week again criticised the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility…

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” declared South African President Nelson Mandela…

Fiji’s government tabled the National Referendum Bill 2025 on 4 December 2025 — the final sitting day of parliament for…

In their meeting on 4 May in Canberra, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Japanese counterpart, Prime Minister Sanae…

From Berlin to Delhi, powerful nations still decide Pacific futures without Pacific voices in the room. The Quad’s latest Fiji…

Australian aid The Albanese government’s fifth federal budget sees Australia’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) increase in nominal terms from an…

In a recent post on the Devpolicy Blog, Andrew Donigi hailed the report of the Special Parliamentary Committee on Customary…

For reasons relating to the terms and conditions of the permanent public service, ingrained habits of reticence learned therein, or…

A recent Devpolicy Blog post, “The science of scale: what works to implement effective education programs?” (hereafter, “the post”) discusses…

For decades, Papua New Guinea has struggled with some of the highest maternal and newborn mortality rates in the Pacific.…