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A virtual meeting between the People’s Republic of China and the Pacific Small Island Developing States in May 2020 (Fiji Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Twitter)

13 October 2020

Responding to COVID-19: time to refocus on Pacific governance

by Biman Prasad

COVID-19: an opportunity to empower

12 October 2020

COVID-19: an opportunity to empower

by Thomas Hehir and Leone Tupua

Do Papuan lives matter?: Protesters in Australia (Free West Papua Campaign/Facebook)

6 October 2020

Do Papuan lives matter?

by Arichika Okazaki and Grant Walton

Industry leaders warn of a ‘perfect storm’ if fruit is left unpicked (Richard Bedford)

2 October 2020

New Zealand’s seasonal labour shortage, and how to solve it

by Charlotte Bedford

Scott Morrison at the 2019 Pacific Islands Forum meeting children who were sitting in water to demonstrate the danger of rising sea levels due to climate change (Pacific Islands Forum/Twitter)

24 September 2020

Australia needs a new Pacific compact

by Luke Gosling

Australia leaves Fiji to flounder

23 September 2020

Australia leaves Fiji to flounder

by Stephen Howes

4 September 2020

Bigger than aid: Vanuatu’s citizenship schemes

by Sherman Surandiran and Stephen Howes

Food as if by magic: how can Australia thank its seasonal workers? (Unsplash/Stephanie Mccabe)

3 September 2020

Food as if by magic: how can Australia thank its seasonal workers?

by Michael Rose

28 August 2020

Constraints on the Pacific response to COVID-19

by Stephen Howes and Sherman Surandiran

28 August 2020

How to get from response to recovery in the Pacific

by David Abbott and Steve Pollard

Cornelio with his family in Dili, Timor-Leste.

25 August 2020

From Dili to Warrnambool

by Cornelio Dos Santos and Michael Rose

Timor-Leste is prioritizing universal cash transfers in its response to COVID0-19. (UN Photo:Martine Perret/Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

24 August 2020

What are Pacific governments spending on in response to COVID-19?

by Stephen Howes and Sherman Surandiran

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