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Volunteers from Timor-Leste's 'Clean Seas Movement' (Movimento Tasi Mos) help distribute supplies in the aftermath of the April flood

28 January 2022

Timor-Leste in 2021: in troubled times a nation comes of age

by Michael Rose

Backpacker in Cairns (Jo Christian Oterhals-Flickr)

27 January 2022

The horticulture ‘labour crisis’ needs a calm, PALM response

by Evie Sharman and Stephen Howes

24 January 2022

Papua New Guinea in 2022

by Stephen Howes

The IMF Managing Director arrives at the G20 Summit in October 2021 (International Monetary Fund-Flickr)

19 January 2022

Australia lagging on G20 SDR redistribution commitment

by Stephen Howes and Huiyuan Liu

Fiji in 2022

17 January 2022

by Sadhana Sen

Seasonal workers stranded in Australia (Uniting Church in Australia, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania)

13 January 2022

Less worker exploitation under the SWP

by Mark Zirnsak

Auckland Airport (Chun Xia-Flickr)

10 December 2021

Quarantine-free travel for RSE workers: the challenges of two-way labour flows

by Charlotte Bedford

Greeting the arrival of an Australian funded COVID-19 support package, Solomon Islands

9 December 2021

Foreign aid set to be cut next year to below pre-pandemic levels

by Stephen Howes

Kiwifruit orchard, New Zealand (Sheila Thomson-Flickr)

9 December 2021

An unseasonable year: Pacific RSE workers to New Zealand during 2021

by Charlotte Bedford

26 November 2021

Public opinion on COVID-19 vaccines in PNG: bad news, good news and a way forward

by Terence Wood

Australian Parliament House (Jerry Skinner-Flickr)

18 November 2021

A new era for Australian aid: the ‘cautious consensus’

by Benjamin Day and Tamas Wells

A lab worker at the Pasteur Institute of Nha Trang, Vietnam (CDC Global-Flickr)

11 November 2021

The vaccine donation model is broken – a new approach is needed

by Joel Negin

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