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Aiming for the top ten: Korea’s aid FEATURED Justin Tkachenko MP (centre) and Dame Carol Kidu (second from right) in Kira Kira, Papua New Guinea, March 2023 Papua New Guinea’s “foreign” ministers FEATURED Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs at an International Women's Day parliamentary breakfast, February 2023 Are all gender strategies created equal? Examining the new German, US and UK approaches FEATURED Students washing their hands at a compound of Eton Centre School on Efate Island, Vanuatu Accelerating progress on menstrual health in East Asia and the Pacific FEATURED Korea should use its summit to offer labour mobility to the Pacific FEATURED

Aid and development

AIFFP-PNG Ports contract signing in January 2022 (PNG Ports Corporation Limited-Facebook)

AIFFP, ADB, PNG Ports and corruption

by Stephen Howes
5 June 2023
by Stephen Howes
5 June 2023

May 2023 aid news

by Development Policy Centre
2 June 2023
by Development Policy Centre
2 June 2023

Aiming for the top ten: Korea’s aid

by Cameron Hill
1 June 2023
by Cameron Hill
1 June 2023
Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs at an International Women's Day parliamentary breakfast, February 2023

Are all gender strategies created equal? Examining the new German, US and UK approaches

by Alice Ridge and Lotte Wolff
30 May 2023
by Alice Ridge and Lotte Wolff
30 May 2023
USAID Administrator Samantha Power with President of the Republic of Kosova Vjosa Osmani, May 2023

Are all gender strategies created equal? What Australia can learn from Germany, the UK and US

by Alice Ridge and Lotte Wolff
30 May 2023
by Alice Ridge and Lotte Wolff
30 May 2023
Students washing their hands at a compound of Eton Centre School on Efate Island, Vanuatu

Accelerating progress on menstrual health in East Asia and the Pacific

by Chelsea Huggett, Julie Hennegan and Brooke Yamakoshi
29 May 2023
by Chelsea Huggett, Julie Hennegan and Brooke Yamakoshi
29 May 2023
New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nanaia Mahuta, in Samoa, April 2023

DAC’s surprisingly critical review of New Zealand aid

by Terence Wood
26 May 2023
by Terence Wood
26 May 2023
New Zealand's Minister of Finance, Grant Robertson, delivers the budget in parliament, 18 May 2023

Unlike Australia, New Zealand aid is set to rocket upwards, sort of

by Terence Wood
24 May 2023
by Terence Wood
24 May 2023

Maximising migration’s potential as a climate change response

by Samuel Huckstep and Michael Clemens
17 May 2023
by Samuel Huckstep and Michael Clemens
17 May 2023
Community discussions about violence against women, White Ribbon Day, PNG, 2011

Where thinking and working politically meets gender – tactics that have worked

by Jane Lonsdale and Joanne Choe
16 May 2023
by Jane Lonsdale and Joanne Choe
16 May 2023
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PNG and the Pacific

Justin Tkachenko MP (centre) and Dame Carol Kidu (second from right) in Kira Kira, Papua New Guinea, March 2023

Papua New Guinea’s “foreign” ministers

by Henry Ivarature
31 May 2023
by Henry Ivarature
31 May 2023

Korea should use its summit to offer labour mobility to the Pacific

by Stephen Howes
26 May 2023
by Stephen Howes
26 May 2023
1th Henry Kila Memorial Address delivered to the 2023 Australia Papua New Guinea Business Forum in Port Moresby on 16 May 2023

Reversing rural decline in PNG: the 11th Henry Kila Memorial Address

by Andrew Anton Mako
25 May 2023
by Andrew Anton Mako
25 May 2023
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Papua New Guinea, 22 May 2023

The United States has a problem with systems, not summits

by Nic Maclellan
23 May 2023
by Nic Maclellan
23 May 2023
City bus station, Canberra

Culture shock in Canberra

by Gerhardt Siune
22 May 2023
by Gerhardt Siune
22 May 2023
Hand washing station at Bogia District Hospital, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea

Challenges for TB prevention and control in PNG

by Gigil Marme, Jerzy Kuzma, Neil Harris, Peta-Anne Zimmerman and Shannon Rutherford
19 May 2023
by Gigil Marme, Jerzy Kuzma, Neil Harris, Peta-Anne Zimmerman and Shannon Rutherford
19 May 2023

IUU fishing: there’s no one-size-fits-all solution

by Melissa Conley Tyler and Camille Goodman
18 May 2023
by Melissa Conley Tyler and Camille Goodman
18 May 2023
Clare O'Neill, MP, at the National Press Club, May 2023

The migration review and Pacific migration

by Stephen Howes
15 May 2023
by Stephen Howes
15 May 2023
Zechariah's mother, Esther Suii, attending church service at Wingei Mt Zion Local Church, Papua New Guinea

Education is my only beacon of hope

by Zechariah Suii
12 May 2023
by Zechariah Suii
12 May 2023
Vines in Marlborough, New Zealand (Tim Parkinson-Flickr)

New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme: 38,000 workers by 2028?

by Charlotte Bedford
9 May 2023
by Charlotte Bedford
9 May 2023
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