PACER Plus – a regional trade agreement between Australia, New Zealand and Pacific island countries – will do little to stimulate economic activity in the Pacific. However, Pacific negotiators have had some success lobbying Australia and New Zealand on labour mobility, and have shaped a relative...
Aid: wealthier countries giving money to less fortunate ones for the sake of improving people’s wellbeing. What’s not to like? Quite a lot, it turns out. Aid is the subject of academic jeremiads, stern critique from the very wealthy, and a surprising degree of public hostility...
While many in Australia have faced significant cost due to the global pandemic, most of us have experienced just a small taste of some of the challenges and hardships that a majority of the rest of the world regularly face. The inability to buy all you want at the shops, often-changing government...
In one way, 2019 was a good year for Australia’s Development NGOs. The Development Policy Centre analyses financial data, collected annually by the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), for a large subset of these organisations (all ACFID members as well as Médicins Sans...
Too close to ignore: Australia’s borderland with Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, edited by Mark...
In 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) released its draft Global Strategy Towards Eliminating...
Saturday 10 October was World Mental Health Day, and for many of us it may have held a special...
Australia’s 2020 international development budget is a mass of contradictions. On the one hand...
Globally, we are witnessing a movement making it clear that Black voices demand to be heard, and...
The Coalition did something very unusual in the aid budget last night. It increased foreign aid. It...
