Vanuatu, aside from one case identified in quarantine last November, remains thankfully COVID-free...
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Pacific regionalism in crisis: Forum and USP both weakened in a...
It is hard to imagine a bleaker day for Pacific regionalism than Wednesday February 3, 2021. It saw...
How to communicate effectively in a crisis
Effective communication is an essential component of crisis response. I have seen it through my...
Managing crisis: the political/civil service divide
Politicians and civil servants think about public policy differently. This may be obvious to many...
Leftovers from our first Memorandum of Understanding
If an assessment team was to use standard evaluation criteria to assess my performance in preparing...
The NZ pathway: how and why Samoans migrate to Australia – part...
In the first blog in this two-part series, we showed that net migration rates to Australia and New...
The NZ pathway: how and why Samoans migrate to Australia – part...
First-generation migrants make up 30% of the Australian population. But those from the Pacific make...
Public policy in a crisis: three lessons from Ecuador’s...
During my time as Minister of Planning and Development in Ecuador and as Acting Vice President, one...
Solving problems quickly to safeguard the welfare of seasonal...
In 2019, in a Devpolicy Blog titled ‘Go betweens needed to troubleshoot Pacific labour mobility...
Pacific seasonal workers return for New Zealand’s summer harvest
On 27 November 2020, the New Zealand Government announced the first major border exception for...