The Australia Pacific Training Coalition (formerly College) was announced in 2005 by then Prime Minister John Howard. Facing pressure from Pacific island governments at the Port Moresby Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting to introduce a seasonal worker program, Howard instead offered that...
The dust has settled on another global humanitarian reform process, the Grand Bargain 2.0 (GB 2.0). Five years after the World Humanitarian Summit initiated the first Grand Bargain in 2016, the humanitarian sector has recently concluded a much tighter and more focused dialogue to establish an...
The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated border closures have thrown the international development industry into turmoil. An industry conventionally reliant on ‘fly-in fly-out’ consultants has had to face a reckoning in terms of the sustainability of its modus operandi. Central to this reckoning is...
One of my most vivid childhood memories is waiting for the rain. Growing up on a farm in regional Queensland, our house was not connected to the town’s water supply. We relied on rain for everything – from our health, to our livelihood. On that farm I learned that water is life. Access to clean...
Going back almost a decade now, several prominent national and international development thinkers...
Public trust matters for development NGOs. They work in faraway lands. Their impacts aren’t...
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...
