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Australian Minister for Defence Richard Marles and Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong with their French counterparts

3 February 2023

France, Australia and the First Nations foreign policy

by Nic Maclellan

Students at Fasi Moi Afi primary school in Tonga (Conor Ashleigh-DFAT-Flickr)

3 February 2023

Seasonal work supports everyday expenses in Tonga

by Hiroshi Maeda and Ryan Edwards

Farmer in a field of potato plants in Papua New Guinea

1 February 2023

Bikpela wok na liklik mani: smallholders’ decisions on cash crops in PNG

by Michael Bourke

Penny Wong and the Australian team in Vanuatu in December 2022 (Penny Wong - Senator for SA-Facebook)

27 January 2023

Will bipartisanship help build a generational partnership with the Pacific?

by Tom Barber

VWC leading a '16 Days of Activism' march in 2022 (Dipatmen blong ol Woman-Facebook)

25 January 2023

Thirty years of the Vanuatu Women’s Centre: her story

by Tatavola Matas, Merilyn Tahi and Juliet Hunt

20 January 2023

Vale Sir Leonard Wilson Kamit, CBE

by Robert Igara

19 January 2023

Changes in Papua New Guinea’s fresh food marketplaces

by Timothy Sharp, Mark Busse and Michael Bourke

Kolombi station, once a bustling government outpost (Newman Peye)

17 January 2023

PNG’s rural decay: a personal perspective (Part 3)

by Andrew Anton Mako

16 January 2023

Pacific predictions: a look ahead to 2023

by Tess Newton Cain

Farmer Sione Vaianginam with his children in Nuku'alofa, Tonga (Asian Development Bank-Flickr)

13 January 2023

Migration seems to be shifting gender norms in Tonga

by Ryan Edwards

10 January 2023

Economic challenges await Papua New Guinea in 2023

by Andrew Anton Mako

Fremden Yanhambath speaking at a regional leadership meeting (Anna Gibert-Vanuatu Skills Partnership-Facebook)

9 January 2023

A localisation journey – the Vanuatu Skills Partnership

by Fremden Yanhambath and Anna Gibert

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