This article was first published by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. High in the forested mountains of Papua New Guinea’s Bougainville Island lies an abandoned, kilometre-wide crater cut deep into the earth. Formerly one of the world’s largest gold and copper mines, the open...
Category - Pacific and PNG
Fiji’s coalition budget is laudable but challenges remain
Fiji’s coalition government unveiled its second budget on 28 June 2024. Announcing the budget, Finance Minister Biman Prasad said the focus is on economic stability and building the foundation for the future while aiming to address immediate concerns such as government debt, the cost of...
Pacific Journalism Review at 30: a strong media legacy
Pacific Journalism Review (PJR) began life three decades ago in Papua New Guinea and recently celebrated a remarkable milestone in Fiji with its 30th anniversary edition and its 47th issue. Remarkable because it is the longest surviving Antipodean media, journalism and development journal published...
Voting with their feet: demographic shifts in New Caledonia
For months, New Caledonia has been wracked by conflict between the independence movement and French security forces. A key trigger for the crisis was a vote in the French National Assembly on 13 May, as President Emmanual Macron sought a constitutional amendment that would add an estimated 25,800...
Fiji’s emigration boom: will it last?
The spike in migration out of Fiji since the end of COVID has been widely commented on. It is...
The Pacific economic malaise
As the Pacific island countries (PICs) prepare for another Pacific Islands Forum Economic Ministers...
PNG’s special support grants: inefficient, inequitable and...
In Papua New Guinea, special support grants (SSGs) are allocated by the national government to...
Fiji replaces Vanuatu as top PALM sending country
The Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme has been transformed over the last five years...
Bougainville’s home-grown independence constitution: Part 2
This blog was commissioned by International IDEA and was originally posted on ConstitutionNet...
Bougainville’s home-grown independence constitution: Part 1
This blog series was commissioned by International IDEA and was originally posted on...