The Pacific island nation of Nauru serves as the canvas for an approach to sustainable development programming that bucks tradition. Working with a population of over 12,000 people, and a single island 21 square kilometres in size, the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Pacific...
The death of “adman” and philanthropist Harold Mitchell AC on February 10 has been widely mourned, as well it should be. Australia’s leaders from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese down have recorded their tributes to this larger-than-life character, whose achievements are all the more remarkable for...
The 2023 Pacific Games will be held in Solomon Islands at the end of the year. Australia’s support for the games of $17 million was announced by the Minister for International Development and the Pacific Pat Conroy during a visit to Honiara in August 2022. It took three months, but the Department...
This is an edited extract of the 2022 Mitchell Oration given at the Australasian AID Conference in Canberra in November. I have been working in the space of ending violence against women and girls for the last 18 years in Tonga. This year, I experienced something I had experienced many times before...
As donors seeking to support development impact in the Pacific, the Australian government cannot...
A spectre is haunting the Pacific. It is focused on Solomon Islands today, but has eyes everywhere...
Papua New Guinea is set to hold elections halfway through next year. Unlike many developing...
The Australia Pacific Training Coalition (formerly College) was announced in 2005 by then Prime...
The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated border closures have thrown the international development...
Timor-Leste’s troubles have a way of highlighting its strengths as well as its vulnerabilities. The...
