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Samoan seasonal workers heading to Australia in 2021 (Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme-Facebook)

24 October 2022

Recruitment pathways and motivations in Samoa’s new labour trade

by Angela Anya Fatupaito, Leva’a Samoa James Utuva, Sa’u Emo Tauave, Alofipo Siligamanaia Alofipo, Malama Meleisea, Penelope Schoeffel, Tiffany Arthur and Kalissa Alexeyeff

Humanitarian assistance in Kunduz, Afghanistan

21 October 2022

Should Western donors provide aid to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan?

by Maria Siegmund

APTC training in Vanuatu (Rob Maccoll-DFAT-Flickr)

20 October 2022

Brain drain 3: specific problems and solutions

by Richard Curtain

19 October 2022

The Pacific: emerging from COVID, slowly

by Stephen Howes and Huiyuan Liu

Wang Yi chairs the Ministerial Meeting of the Group of Friends of the GDI in September 2022 (Fiji Government-Facebook)

18 October 2022

China’s Global Development Initiative: soft power play or serious commitment?

by Anthea Mulakala

Timorese workers in Australia in 2019 (Seasonal Worker Programme of Timor-Leste-Facebook)

14 October 2022

Brain drain 2: general solutions

by Richard Curtain

14 October 2022

An ominous warning for PNG

by Andrew Anton Mako

Samoan PM visiting RSE workers in New Zealand in June 2022 (New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade-Facebook)

13 October 2022

Brain drain 1: a growing concern

by Richard Curtain

12 October 2022

A new aid strategy: purpose, priorities, and plumbing

by Cameron Hill

The library at Gando primary school (GandoIT-Wikimedia Commons)

12 October 2022

Global prize honours African architect

by David Guy

Children in the classroom (Robert Cannon)

11 October 2022

The Lean Education Manifesto: a review

by Robert Cannon

A Tongan PALM worker at Newton Orchards (Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme-Facebook)

10 October 2022

Labour mobility in the Pacific: transformational and/or negligible?

by Stephen Howes, Richard Curtain and Evie Sharman

A not-for-profit medicine development model to address global health inequities

PNG politics: highly fragmented but getting better

Attacks on healthcare: the decade major powers failed humanity

Nauru’s remarkable recent economic success

A not-for-profit medicine development model to address global health inequities

PNG politics: highly fragmented but getting better

Attacks on healthcare: the decade major powers failed humanity

Nauru’s remarkable recent economic success

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