Browsing: Development & Policy

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…

When Pacific leaders consider invoking the Biketawa Declaration, the region’s highest collective crisis framework, last used for the COVID-19 pandemic…

Since the late 2000s, Australia (through the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme — PALM) and New Zealand (through the Recognised…

In the practice of immigration law, the world is often defined by the cold, binary reality of statutes and visa…

New Caledonians will go to the polls in coming weeks, to elect three provincial assemblies and the national Congress. The…