Much has been written about the so-called patrol officers, or kiaps, in colonial Papua New Guinea (PNG). That material includes some books by kiaps, recording their memoirs of their time in PNG, and some by historians and others trying to understand the colonial experience and its impacts on...
Timor-Leste’s troubles have a way of highlighting its strengths as well as its vulnerabilities. The floods that hit the region this April are no exception. On and around 4 April, torrential rains associated with Cyclone Seroja swept across Timor, Rote, Ende and Flores, killing well over 200 people...
Under the partnership between the Crawford School of Public Policy and the School of Business and Public Policy at the University of Papua New Guinea, a number of ANU Crawford School lecturers teach UPNG undergraduates and graduates in economics and public policy. Due to COVID-19, a significant...
COVID-19 appears the latest instalment in outsider narratives of Papua New Guinea (PNG) as a ‘failed’, ‘weak’ or ‘fragile’ state. In April 2020, for example, with only eight cases of COVID-19 in the country at that time, Australian journalists capitalised on the opportunity to put PNG on the failed...
Global attention focused on shipping in March, as container ship Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal...
For a long time, the health narrative around COVID-19 in the island nations of the Pacific and...
In their blog ‘PNG: the hungry country’, Manoj Pandey and Stephen Howes have raised an important...
The Federal Agriculture Minister, David Littleproud, announced yesterday morning on the ABC that...
As with their sisters around the world, many women in the Pacific Islands are victims of violence...
In early May, the New Zealand government announced a second border exception (which I refer to as...
