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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

27 August 2018

Drama drama drama: what the new government means for aid

by Ashlee Betteridge

A newspaper stand in Solomon Islands (Credit: ABC Pacific Beat)

23 August 2018

Information laundering in the Pacific

by Bruce Hill

A candidate's poster from the 2017 PNG election (Credit: Terence Wood)

17 August 2018

How politics keeps Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea poor and poorly governed

by Terence Wood

Vanuatu Parliament, Port Vila (Phillip Capper/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

23 July 2018

Pacific regionalism, climate finance, and women in politics: in conversation with Hon Ralph Regenvanu

by Tess Newton Cain and Ralph Regenvanu

The Australian Navy's HMAS Huon docked at Luganville (Credit: RadioNZ)

25 June 2018

Australia’s relationships with its Pacific Island neighbours should not be about China

by Matthew Dornan

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