Evidence over nine months to the end of February 2024 shows a declining demand for Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme seasonal workers — those who used to be under the Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP), now absorbed into the PALM scheme as short-term PALM workers. Figure 1 shows...
The second time I met Sergeant Alice Arigo of the Tari Family and Sexual Violence Unit (FSVU), who is known in the community as Alice, she was taking down the statement of a woman who had been brutally beaten, holding her pen in one hand while cradling the woman’s infant baby in the other. It was...
As the French National Assembly and Senate debate changes to New Caledonia’s electoral laws, there are protests in the streets of Noumea. On Saturday 13 April, tens of thousands of supporters and opponents of independence rallied in the capital, mobilising around proposed changes to voting rights...
Gender Based Violence (GBV), especially intimate partner violence, is a grave concern in Papua New Guinea, where the rate of violence against women is around 80%. One in two women in the country are victims of intimate partner violence. One long-term measure to address intimate partner violence...
Who will emerge as prime minister from Wednesday’s elections in Solomon Islands? The prime minister...
I came to this evening of short films not sure what to expect. I have a history with West Papua...
On 14 April 2023, during the second reading of the Crimes (Sexual Offence) Amendment Bill 2023...
During New Zealand’s 2023 election campaign, a pre-election promise made by the National-led...
Global demand and prices for cocoa have soared in the past few years with the price now the highest...
PNG’s Independent Consumer and Competition Commission (ICCC) recently undertook a review of the...
