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Photograph of a mother and nurse weighing a baby at a health clinic in Port Moresby, PNG

PNG’s plan to balance the budget

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Riots in Honiara, November 2021 (Solomons-Facebook-RNZ-Asia Pacific Report)

Solomon Islander views

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Rows of solar panels in a thermo-solar power plant

The awkward arithmetic of Australia’s climate finance promise

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University of the South Pacific's Linda Filiai filming in the ANZ National Stadium.

Wanting to be watchdogs: Pacific journalists and their views

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A young woman in a yellow dress and pale peach head scarf is whispering into the ear of a young woman with blonde hair wearing a khaki green shirt.

An insider’s guide to changing the world

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Public opinion on COVID-19 vaccines in PNG: bad news, good news and a way forward

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The cruel ironies of the 2021 Honiara riots

by Terence Wood

December 3, 2021

The awkward arithmetic of Australia’s climate finance promise

by Terence Wood

December 2, 2021

An insider’s guide to changing the world

by Gordon Peake

November 30, 2021

Pak Kuleh, a primary teacher in North Kalimantan, teaching literacy (INOVASI)

From little things big things grow: using data to drive education policy in Indonesia

by Mark Heyward, Handoko Widagdo

November 24, 2021

Photograph of audience at OECD Global Forum on Development, Paris, 2018

A new era for Australian aid: the ‘cautious consensus’

by Benjamin Day, Tamas Wells

November 18, 2021

A building in the city of Marawi in the southern Philippines, damaged in 2017 during an urban siege (Adam Burke-The Asia Foundation)

New terrain, old problems: identity-based conflict and extremism in Asia, 2021

by Adam Burke

November 17, 2021

Photography of backpacks on a luggage trolley on a train stations platform.

Third-year backpacker visa proves popular

by Stephen Howes, Evie Sharman

November 12, 2021

People sit around a table with a white board and coloured post-it notes at an IRF "boot camp" session.

The end of an aid era? Innovation Resource Facility closes

by Mel Dunn

November 12, 2021

A lab worker at the Pasteur Institute of Nha Trang, Vietnam (CDC Global-Flickr)

The vaccine donation model is broken – a new approach is needed

by Joel Negin

November 11, 2021

PNG’s plan to balance the budget

by Stephen Howes, Kelly Samof

December 3, 2021

Wanting to be watchdogs: Pacific journalists and their views

by Shailendra B. Singh, Folker Hanusch

December 1, 2021

Public opinion on COVID-19 vaccines in PNG: bad news, good news and a way forward

by Terence Wood

November 26, 2021

Settlement evictions in Port Moresby between 2012 and 2021

by Michelle Nayahamui Rooney

November 25, 2021

Solomon Islands’ slippery slide to self-implosion

by Transform Aqorau

November 25, 2021

A handicrafts stall run by women from Hog Harbour, Vanuatu, selling to cruiseship tourists prior to COVID (Dirk Steenbergen)

The agency of local people in the Pacific: indigenous responses to the global pandemic

by Apisalome Movono, Pita Neihapi, Regina Scheyvens, Dirk Steenbergen

November 25, 2021

Downtown Port Moresby, PNG (Drew Douglas-Flickr)

Everyday corruption in PNG: a way of life?

by Teddy Winn

November 23, 2021

to enter the outer islands polling place in the capital Nuku'alofa

All change in Tonga

by Henry Ivarature, Ema Finau Ivarature

November 19, 2021

Her Royal Highness Princess Latufuipeka Tuku’aho

No women elected in Tonga: time to change the story

by ‘Ofa-Ki-Levuka Guttenbeil-Likiliki

November 19, 2021

Devpolicy Talks

The Development Policy Centre is home to the Devpolicy Blog (devpolicy.org) and is a think tank for aid and development policy based at Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. Devpolicy Talks brings you the latest from our centre’s public events as well as other discussions from our blog and research work covering Australian aid, PNG and the Pacific and global development policy.