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RSE workers in New Zealand (Richard Bedford) Winter measures: supporting RSE employers and workers FEATURED Roadworks on the Malahang-China Town Road in Lae, August 2022 (Lae Open Electorate - John Rosso Dps MP-Facebook) Connect PNG: the road to development? FEATURED Oxfam and local partner YEC are delivering safe water to more than 40,000 people who were forced to flee their homes. Here, Oxfam teams deliver water to a school in Beach Refugee Camp. New development funding: the potential of lotteries FEATURED WWII Guadalcanal American Memorial (Eileen Natuzzi) What the US should do in Solomon Islands FEATURED Senator the Hon Penny Wong, official visit to Samoa June 2022 - eHealth Event Attention Labor: Australians don't want aid cut FEATURED

Aid and development

Oxfam and local partner YEC are delivering safe water to more than 40,000 people who were forced to flee their homes. Here, Oxfam teams deliver water to a school in Beach Refugee Camp.

New development funding: the potential of lotteries

by David Guy
August 10, 2022
by David Guy
August 10, 2022
Senator the Hon Penny Wong, official visit to Samoa June 2022 - eHealth Event

Attention Labor: Australians don’t want aid cut

by Terence Wood
August 8, 2022
by Terence Wood
August 8, 2022
Administrator Samantha Power delivers an address on global food security crisis, July 2022

Power shift? USAID and localisation

by Cameron Hill
August 4, 2022
by Cameron Hill
August 4, 2022
A health centre located in Beijing that services around 15,000 people in surrounding villages

Equality in China’s healthcare infrastructure

by Lei Yu and Xiao Tan
August 3, 2022
by Lei Yu and Xiao Tan
August 3, 2022
Malaysia-China Investment Forum April 2022 East Coast Economic Region Development Council-Facebook)

Belt and Road Initiative in Malaysia – a tool for domestic political elites

by Robin Bush
August 2, 2022
by Robin Bush
August 2, 2022

July aid news

by Development Policy Centre
July 29, 2022
by Development Policy Centre
July 29, 2022
Dhaka, Bangladesh (Conor Ashleigh-DFAT)

Fewer adjectives, more focus on economic growth for development

by Lant Pritchett
July 28, 2022
by Lant Pritchett
July 28, 2022

Collaboration vs contestability: civic spaces in South Asia

by Gopa Thampi, Mandakini D. Surie, Sumaya Saluja, Sunil Pillai and Nicola Nixon
July 26, 2022
by Gopa Thampi, Mandakini D. Surie, Sumaya Saluja, Sunil Pillai and Nicola Nixon
July 26, 2022
Session at the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Week, July 2022 (Sarah Friend-DFAT)

Rethinking PACER Plus

by Wadan Narsey
July 22, 2022
by Wadan Narsey
July 22, 2022
Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong remarked on the positive response to the new PEV during a visit to the Solomon Islands

Pacific Engagement Visa quotas need to be set strategically and selectively

by Stephen Howes
July 22, 2022
by Stephen Howes
July 22, 2022
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PNG and the Pacific

Children at kindergarten in Tonga (Conor Ashleigh-DFAT)

Pacific migrant workers and the social costs of family separation

by Matt Withers
August 16, 2022
by Matt Withers
August 16, 2022
PALM workers in Australia in November 2021 (Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme-Facebook)

It’s time for a minimum earning guarantee for Pacific workers

by Evie Sharman
August 15, 2022
by Evie Sharman
August 15, 2022
RSE workers in New Zealand (Richard Bedford)

Winter measures: supporting RSE employers and workers

by Charlotte Bedford
August 12, 2022
by Charlotte Bedford
August 12, 2022
Roadworks on the Malahang-China Town Road in Lae, August 2022 (Lae Open Electorate - John Rosso Dps MP-Facebook)

Connect PNG: the road to development?

by Alyssa Leng
August 11, 2022
by Alyssa Leng
August 11, 2022
WWII Guadalcanal American Memorial (Eileen Natuzzi)

What the US should do in Solomon Islands

by Eileen Natuzzi
August 8, 2022
by Eileen Natuzzi
August 8, 2022
Supporters gearing up for a campaign rally in PNG 2022 (Roan Paul)

Reflecting on two months in Port Moresby

by Alyssa Leng
August 5, 2022
by Alyssa Leng
August 5, 2022
Primary school students heading to class in PNG

Signs of fiscal recovery in Papua New Guinea?

by Kingtau Mambon and Stephen Howes
August 1, 2022
by Kingtau Mambon and Stephen Howes
August 1, 2022
Opening of the Melanesian Spearhead Group Meeting, Port Vila, Vanuatu, 2008 (Tracey-Flickr)

Barriers to women’s political participation in Vanuatu

by Jennifer Kalpokas Doan
July 27, 2022
by Jennifer Kalpokas Doan
July 27, 2022
Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ dialogue with associate members and Forum observers, 12 July 2022

Australia and New Zealand’s silence on democracy and human rights in the Pacific

by Biman Chand Prasad
July 21, 2022
by Biman Chand Prasad
July 21, 2022
Getting on the bus in Tonga (Asian Development Bank-Flickr)

Three questions on Tongan remittances

by Ryan Edwards, Matthew Dornan, Dung Doan and Toan Nguyen
July 20, 2022
by Ryan Edwards, Matthew Dornan, Dung Doan and Toan Nguyen
July 20, 2022
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