Browsing: Development & Policy

Late last year, at the Australasian Aid and International Development Conference at the Australian National University, I attended a session…

During her widely reported appearance at the National Press Club last week, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson was asked (at…

What’s in a name? Can a name drive peace? I recently came across a scholar with a fascinating focus: how…

Ever since the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, policymakers worldwide have been asking themselves two important questions: how…

This year, a group of Pacific young people published a guide to talking about pleasure. They called it Pleasurenesia —…

Solomon Islands is beginning an important national conversation about free education. At one level, the idea is simple and powerful:…

In the first article in this two-part series we explained why last year, 2024–25, Australia set a new record for…

Last year, 2024–25, Australia issued 321,000 backpacker visas — 97,000 more than the previous year, and in fact significantly above…

The Development Intelligence Lab’s recent breakdown of Australia’s foreign affairs spending in the 2026 Federal Budget turns up some astonishing…

A recent Senate Estimates discussion between Labor Senator Penny Wong, Greens Senator David Shoebridge and several Australian Government officials (from…