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Farming, Whagi Valley, PNG (Flickr/Michal Gonnen)

2 February 2016

PNG drought response: reporting from Goroka

by Paul Kelly

Delivering food aid when there are no roads, PNG 1997 (Flickr/DFAT/Darren Hilder, Aust Defence)

29 January 2016

Management of natural disasters in PNG — not all bad news

by Felicity Herbert

28 January 2016

Is Australia a humanitarian scrooge?

by Ashlee Betteridge

Highlands farming, 2008 (Flickr/Drew Douglas)

18 January 2016

Politicising drought relief in Papua New Guinea

by Colin Wiltshire and Thiago Cintra Oppermann

Figure 1: Impact of drought & frost on food supply in rural PNG, late December 2015

15 January 2016

The ongoing impact of the El Niño drought and frosts in Papua New Guinea

by Michael Bourke, Bryant Allen and Michael Lowe

16 December 2015

Humanitarian principles amid the militarisation of aid: an interview with Vincent Bernard

by Camilla Burkot and Vincent Bernard

4 December 2015

Fortnightly links: understanding ISIS, democratic leadership, Australian generosity, and more…

by Camilla Burkot and Terence Wood

Emergency room in the Emergency Surgical Hospital in Aden, which MSF has been running since the beginning of 2015 (copyright: Guillaume Binet/MYOP)

2 November 2015

How the global humanitarian system is failing Yemenis

by Paul McPhun

Activities in World Vision Child Friendly Space in Kathmandu, April 2015 (image: World Vision Australia)

30 October 2015

The invisible health challenge for aid and humanitarian action

by Hayley Channer, Megan McGrath and Alison Schafer

Local responders save countless lives, including in the Nepal earthquake earlier this year (image: Int'l Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies)

24 September 2015

Strengthening local actors key to effective disaster response

by Peter Walton

24 September 2015

Fortnightly links: crises, charts, sinking islands and worms (yes, again)

by Camilla Burkot and Terence Wood

28 August 2015

Fortnightly links: awful aid reporting, development looking backwards and forwards, and more…

by Camilla Burkot and Terence Wood

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