After the change of government in May 2019, members of parliament in Papua New Guinea kept changing sides throughout 2019. This year will continue to be another busy year for PNG politics. Three issues to watch are: the Supreme Court ruling on the validity of Prime Minister James Marape’s election...
The Pacific is a crowded policy space – inevitable given the wide range of challenges facing Pacific island countries. Most recently, with climate change being on everyone’s mind and the need for massively enhanced infrastructure in the Pacific to help deal with it, it’s difficult to get any oxygen...
A recent study has found that the literacy and numeracy skills of primary school students across the Pacific have improved. The 2018 Pacific Island Literacy and Numeracy Assessment (PILNA) was a huge collaborative exercise across Pacific island countries to find out just how well primary children...
Have you ever wondered what the term Asia-Pacific denotes? A vast stretch of geographical land masses across Asia and the Pacific gathered into one grouping, or is the Pacific a token inclusion, where the ‘P’ is silent? Examining data, papers, and policies made for the Asia-Pacific region would...
For many centuries humans have been travelling the globe and with these travels has come the need...
The government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) through National Executive Council (NEC) decision...
2019 was meant to mark the end of the PNG government’s 20-year Tariff Reduction Program (TRP)...
In October 2017, New Zealand’s (then) new minister for climate change, James Shaw, announced that...
When you clicked on this blog post to open it, did you think about how much money it would cost you...
The absence of party system institutionalisation in the independent Pacific has puzzled scholars...
