The National Court of Papua New Guinea made a landmark court decision on Saturday 30 January 2021 by ordering the Madang Provincial Government, the District Development Authority, and the Urban Local-level Government to fix the roads in Madang town. The orders prescribed the specific financial...
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Helping APTC trades graduates to migrate to Australia: why, how and when
Despite the fact that the Australia Pacific Training Coalition (APTC) is meant to promote labour mobility, and despite the desire of most of its students to migrate, few of its graduates have actually moved to Australia for work. APTC’s most recent efforts to promote labour mobility have focused on...
The courage to write
In this fortnight’s Memorandum of Understanding podcast we dip into Tom Bamforth’s rollicking and deeply humane book, The rising tide, which recounts his travels across the Pacific islands. As well as speaking to Tom, we conduct ‘key informant’ interviews with Tataua Pesi and Linda...
No poverty reduction in Fiji over the last six years
The Fiji Bureau of Statistics (FBS) released its preliminary report on the 2019-2020 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) on 8 February. The survey is based on a representative sample of 6,000 households and was conducted from February 2019 to February 2020. Thus the 2019-2020 HIES report...
Is PNG a fragile state?
In 2018, then Shadow Minister for Treasury and Finance and current Treasurer Ian Ling-Stuckey...
The future of the University of the South Pacific
The whistleblowing Vice Chancellor at the University of the South Pacific (USP), Professor Pal...
COVID-19 international development forum
All of us in the international development space – in Australia, the region and worldwide – have...