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Australian Aid workers (Anne Orquiza-DFAT-Flickr)

Australian aid ranked second last and New Zealand last among traditional aid donors

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Photograph of a palm tree behind which is a low brick wall and a harbour full of small sailing vessels, taken in Majuro in the Marshall Islands.

PLS+SWP=PALM: more questions than acronyms

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UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office in winter (FCDO-Flickr)

Advancing the UK’s new aid agenda

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Photograph of two Kina Bank automatic teller machines in a Port Moresby shopping centre

Kina’s Westpac offer finally rejected – what's next?

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Photography of four people harvesting apples.

Flaws in the Australian Agricultural visa

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Aid and development

Australian Aid workers (Anne Orquiza-DFAT-Flickr)

Australian aid ranked second last and New Zealand last among traditional aid donors

by Stephen Howes

September 21, 2021

Tuk-tuk in Cambodia (Damian@Flickr-Flickr)

Navigating uncertainty: Cambodian tourism businesses and the pandemic

by Men Pechet, Marly Augustine

September 20, 2021

Photograph of a palm tree behind which is a low brick wall and a harbour full of small sailing vessels, taken in Majuro in the Marshall Islands.

PLS+SWP=PALM: more questions than acronyms

by Stephen Howes

September 17, 2021

UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office in winter (FCDO-Flickr)

Advancing the UK’s new aid agenda

by Graham Teskey

September 16, 2021

Photography of four people harvesting apples.

Flaws in the Australian Agricultural visa

by Richard Curtain

September 10, 2021

Photograph of rubber-gloved hands, one hand is squeezing a sample from a soft plastic bottle onto a COVID-19 antigen test stick held in the other hand.

Testing our way to COVID-19 recovery

by Harjit Gill

September 9, 2021

A man fishing in Nuku'alofa, Tonga (Conor Ashleigh-DFAT-Flickr)

Tasmania’s ban on Tonga’s SWP workers

by Richard Curtain

September 8, 2021

Photograph of people at a February 2021 protest agains the military coup in Myanmar. People are wearing masks and carrying signs. One woman holds a megaphone to her masked mouth.

Australia must stand with the women of Myanmar defying military rule

by Myint Myint San, Sharman Stone, Bettina Baldeschi

September 7, 2021

Schoolchildren in front of the Samburu school (Katarzyna Rybarczyk)

What does education look like for Kenya’s Samburu people?

by Katarzyna Rybarczyk

September 2, 2021

Health institution in Bangladesh (Conor Ashleigh-DFAT-Flickr)

Rich-country health care systems: global lessons

by Ian Anderson

August 31, 2021

PNG and the Pacific

Photograph of two Kina Bank automatic teller machines in a Port Moresby shopping centre

Kina’s Westpac offer finally rejected – what’s next?

by Dek Joe Sum

September 15, 2021

An aerial view of the highlands of Papua New Guinea. There are clouds in the foreground and far below buildings and narrow roads.

Kina devaluation revisited

by David Lea

September 14, 2021

Should PNG abandon Limited Preferential Voting?

by Terence Wood, Maholopa Laveil, Michael Kabuni

September 10, 2021

Part of a mural at PNG Parliament House (Marc Tarlock-Flickr)

Does MP funding work (politically) in PNG?

by Maholopa Laveil, Michael Kabuni

September 6, 2021

Image shows the view from an airplane over the wing. There are clouds in the mid distance and below there is the ocean in varying shades of blue, golden sands, and green vegetation.

RSE repatriation: Kiribati needs to step up

by Charlotte Bedford, Richard Bedford

September 3, 2021

Photograph of a single story building with a verandah on which there are three people and some outdoor tables and benches. There are tall palm trees growing around the house and a small van parked in the driveway.

I-Kiribati female seasonal workers in New Zealand: lived experiences

by Charlotte Bedford, Richard Bedford, Rena Tekanene

September 1, 2021

Child in Kimbe, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea (ADB-Flickr)

PNG’s plummeting vaccination rates: now the lowest in the world?

by Stephen Howes, Kingtau Mambon

August 30, 2021

What political crises in Vanuatu and Samoa tell us about their past and future

by Terence Wood

August 26, 2021

Image of a woman with long dark hair, a dark cap and blue jumper using large shears to prune a mandarin tree.

I-Kiribati female seasonal workers in New Zealand for the long haul

by Charlotte Bedford, Richard Bedford, Rena Tekanene

August 25, 2021

Close-up photograph of an orange on a tree. There is text over the photo which reads "Australian Agriculture Visa. The Nationals for Regional Australia."

Yesterday’s regional visa announcement: the end of the PLS?

by Stephen Howes

August 24, 2021