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Papua New Guinea has one of the highest fertility rates in the Asia-Pacific region (Figure 1), and the highest of…

This article recounts, as a lesson-learning exercise, a chain of events that played out in the 1990s — financial misconduct…

Australian aid Australia will link funding of AUD980 million over ten years to the finalisation of a bilateral treaty with…

In our database of reported sorcery accusation-related violence (SARV) incidents across four provinces of Papua New Guinea (PNG), sickness or…

Despite contributing less than 0.03% of global greenhouse gas emissions, Pacific Island countries face some of the world’s most severe…

Average life expectancy across the Pacific is 68.8 years, up from 52.7 in 1960. That’s a significant increase, but it…

Papua New Guinea’s health challenges are too large, too urgent and too complex to be carried by government alone. Of…

“We sweat and cry salt water, so we know that the ocean is really in our blood.” The late scholar…

Australia introduced the second-year backpacker visa extension in 2005, enabling backpackers to extend their stay for a second year in…

This is an edited version of an address delivered on 1 September 2026 to Asian Evaluation Week, hosted by the…