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5 July 2018

Book review: Why we lie about aid

by Ashlee Betteridge

A scene from 'The Other Side of Hope'

13 April 2018

Film review: The Other Side of Hope

by Cleo Fleming

Front cover of 'No Dancing, No Dancing'

13 April 2018

Conversations with an Ayatollah

by Denis Dragovic

Cover image of Human Flow

27 March 2018

Ai Wei Wei’s Human Flow: a review

by Stephen Howes

Cover of 'Asian century... on a knife-edge' by John West

26 February 2018

Questioning the Asian Century

by John Fallon

Front cover of 'Large-Scale Mines and Local-Level Politics'

12 February 2018

Book Review – Large-Scale Mines and Local-Level Politics: Between New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea

by Shaun Gessler

Humanitarian supplies being loaded for transport to Koro island (DFAT/Flickr/CC-BY-2.0)

25 January 2018

Book review: Australia’s Foreign Aid Dilemma

by Tess Newton Cain

Fire dancer from the Baining tribe, PNG (Taro Taylor/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

22 January 2018

Dispossession and inequality in Papua New Guinea

by Camilla Burkot

(image: Tobias Haque)

28 August 2017

State-building and the politics of scale in Solomon Islands

by Tobias Haque

Naki and Senny Wala, Southern Highlands Province (image: Jesse Boylan/ICRC)

8 August 2017

Spears to semi-automatics: the human cost of tribal conflict in Papua New Guinea

by Nayahamui Michelle Rooney and Grant Walton

Voices from the War cover image

27 June 2017

Voices from the war: PNG stories of the Kokoda Campaign

by Timothy Pirinduo

Australia's Foreign Aid Dilemma book cover

11 April 2017

Australia’s foreign aid dilemma

by Jack Corbett

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