Browsing: Development & Policy

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…

People in Kaintiba call their part of Anga’s interior “no man’s land.” Better services, for them, meant being able to…

We arrived in Aseki in the dark and rain. The road had already turned to mud. The climb from Lae…

I have been talking about this since around 2015, long before recent news about Nauru considering a return to its…

The surge in global oil prices following the US-Iran conflict has exposed the extent of Pacific economies’ vulnerability to fuel…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often discussed as something that will reshape higher education in the future. But for many students,…