Timor-Leste’s troubles have a way of highlighting its strengths as well as its vulnerabilities. The floods that hit the region this April are no exception. On and around 4 April, torrential rains associated with Cyclone Seroja swept across Timor, Rote, Ende and Flores, killing well over 200 people...
The Federal Agriculture Minister, David Littleproud, announced yesterday morning on the ABC that the National Party had demanded and gained acceptance of a proposed “seasonal agricultural workforce visa” for citizens of Southeast Asian (ASEAN) countries to come to Australia for up to nine months in...
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged us all in so many ways. At the same time, it has provided the opportunity to reconsider the nature of international development work. The disruption created by the pandemic brings to the fore many issues that have been on our minds for a while at the Institute...
Relationality and learning in Oceania: contextualizing education for development is an important and timely publication. Important in that it offers an alternative approach that challenges conventional approaches to development aid projects; and timely because, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, there is...
Closures of international borders due to COVID-19 have affected migrant workers globally, both on...
It’s not often that world leaders come together to focus on explicitly humanitarian issues. Things...
Years ago, I hitchhiked from Weipa, down the Cape York Peninsula to Kuranda, in the hills behind...
Japan will host a landmark COVAX Summit on Wednesday (2 June) to galvanise support for global...
COVID-19 has killed millions of people globally. It has overwhelmed health services. It has brought...
It’s been a challenging year for Pacific labour mobility. With the onset of COVID-19, borders in...
