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Aid and development

The IMF Managing Director arrives at the G20 Summit in October 2021 (International Monetary Fund-Flickr)

Australia lagging on G20 SDR redistribution commitment

by Stephen Howes, Huiyuan Liu
January 19, 2022
Seasonal workers stranded in Australia (Uniting Church in Australia, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania)

Less worker exploitation under the SWP

by Mark Zirnsak
January 13, 2022
Burden of childcare in Mongolia (Khaliun Boldbaatar)

Holding up more than half the sky: women and childcare in Mongolia

by Khaliun Boldbaatar
January 11, 2022

Best of the blog 2021

by Karen Downing, Stephen Howes
December 17, 2021
The first civilian contingent of the Australian Medical Task Force prepare to board a helicopter bound for Kot Addu.

Where are you this time?

by Gordon Peake
December 17, 2021
A hand removing Australian banknotes from a wallet

What happened to NGO donations in the first year of COVID-19?

by Terence Wood
December 16, 2021
Indonesia's JKN health scheme (Alexandra Stanescue-HP+-Flickr)

How wrong can a policy go? Indonesia’s plan to fund health costs via tobacco taxes

by Elisabeth Kramer, Abdillah Ahsan
December 15, 2021
Greeting the arrival of an Australian funded COVID-19 support package, Solomon Islands

Foreign aid set to be cut next year to below pre-pandemic levels

by Stephen Howes
December 9, 2021
RG Casey Building in Barton Canberra

The Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade, Aid and Labour Mobility

by Stephen Howes, Evie Sharman
December 8, 2021
Rows of solar panels in a thermo-solar power plant

The awkward arithmetic of Australia’s climate finance promise

by Terence Wood
December 2, 2021
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PNG and the Pacific

Photograph of people voting in Papua New Guinea. Voters in colourful clothing queue in front of a table where three election officals in high-vis shirts sit. A policeman stands on the grass in the foreground and there are tall trees in the background.

Political leadership in PNG: women parliamentarians in the 2017 election – part one

by Russel Yangin
January 20, 2022
A woman in a colourful top and dark blue skirt is looking at a poster of election candidates in an outdoor polling station in Bougainville, PNG.

Political leadership in PNG: women parliamentarians in the 2017 election – part two

by Russel Yangin
January 20, 2022
Students in Kimbe, West New Britain, PNG (ADB-Flickr)

The politics of free education in PNG

by Grant Walton, Husnia Hushang
January 18, 2022
Fiji in 2022

Fiji in 2022

by Sadhana Sen
January 17, 2022
A young Brij Lal with his parents in Tabia (Lal family)

Brij Lal’s final interview

by Iva Tora
January 14, 2022
Sorcery accusation related violence awareness (Miranda Forsyth)

Policing in a relational state

by Miranda Forsyth
January 12, 2022
Pacific Elections Office voter registration

Pacific predictions: 2022

by Tess Newton Cain
January 10, 2022
Marine Training Centre, Tarawa, Kiribati (Richard Bedford)

Has COVID-19 ended seafaring for Kiribati?

by Maria Borovnik, Charlotte Bedford, Rochelle Bailey
December 22, 2021
Map showing PNG open electorates (Development Policy Centre-ANU)

Hasten slowly: PNG’s redistricting challenge

by Maholopa Laveil
December 21, 2021
John Howard visits the troops, Solomon Islands 2003

Did New Zealand put the R into RAMSI?

by James Batley
December 14, 2021
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