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NC Bougival signatories

4 May 2026

After Bougival: New Caledonia’s failed constitutional reform

by Nic Maclellan

1 April 2026

Reform by design: PNG aligns law with customary reality

by Allan Donigi

4 March 2026

They don’t see a problem: indifference to language loss in PNG

by Lise Dobrin and Don Kulick

2 September 2025

Not Polynesian, not Melanesian, not Micronesian: just Pasifika

by Amota Ataneka

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

Ofa Guttenbeil-Likiliki giving the Mitchell Oration at the 2022 AAC

15 December 2022

Enough is enough: audaciously decolonising the development and humanitarian nexus

by ‘Ofakilevuka (‘Ofa) Guttenbeil-Likiliki

Micronesian and Polynesian leaders at a traditional welcome ceremony in Fiji in June 2022 (Fijian Government-Facebook)

15 June 2022

‘Pacific family’: what does it really mean?

by Juliet Hunt

The library at ADB's headquarters in the Philippines (Asian Development Bank-Flickr)

30 May 2022

The relationship between language and neocolonialism in the aid industry

by Carla Vitantonio

Signing the Arawa land lease documents in 1970

25 June 2021

A kiap in Bougainville: lessons for today

by Anthony Regan

Man in Goroka PNG

23 June 2021

A response to ‘failed state’ narratives of PNG

by Kylie McKenna, Senala Morona and Cooniebhert Samgay

Fiji’s 1987 coup: from trauma to cohesion

25 May 2021

Fiji’s 1987 coup: from trauma to cohesion

by Shailendra B. Singh

6 April 2021

Is aid neo-colonial?

by Terence Wood

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