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14 January 2019

Fixing Afghanistan’s flawed peace process

by Nematullah Bizhan

Voting for the FSM congressional election, at the University of Guam Calvo Field House in 2017 (Credit: Tihu Lujan/The Guam Daily Post)

7 January 2019

Pacific predictions: 2019

by Tess Newton Cain

20 December 2018

Fiji Cabinet hides while nation laughs

by Bruce Hill

Officials at work in the results centre for the Fiji election (Credit: ABC News/Michael Barnett)

16 November 2018

Fiji elections: Bainimarama rebuked but returned

by Stewart Firth

31 October 2018

DP73 Samoan election results: trends and patterns 1964–2016

by Terence Wood and Sachini Muller

31 October 2018

Labor is making big promises for a new Pacific development bank, but many unanswered questions remain

by Matthew Dornan

On election day, Samoa 2016 (Credit: Iniini Samoa)

23 October 2018

Elections in Samoa: a new database

by Terence Wood and Sachini Muller

16 October 2018

DP71 Political attention and aid policy change: lessons for aid advocacy from the aid spending expansions in Australia and the United Kingdom

by Benjamin Day

Then-Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd with UK PM David Cameron, 2012 (Credit: foreignminister.gov.au)

14 September 2018

Aid advocacy: lessons from Australia and the UK

by Benjamin Day

Seats held by each party in PNG's 10th Parliament as of December 2017 (Credit: Wikipedia)

5 September 2018

Do policies matter? Autonomy and education in PNG politics

by Michael Kabuni

Australia has a see-sawing history of engagement with the South Pacific (Photo credit: jmettraux/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

29 August 2018

Getting realistic about the South Pacific

by James Batley

Julie Bishop speaking at the 2017 Australasian Aid Conference at ANU

28 August 2018

Julie Bishop’s aid and development legacy

by Stephen Howes

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