USAID has been called many things in recent days but Robin Davies recalls it as perpetually harried, hamstrung and ...

By measuring refugee intake against past figures or population size, Australia fails to meet its global responsibilities, say ...

Communication with PEV applicants needs to be improved and visa processing times increased, or job offers will lapse, finds Natasha Turia.

Donors should not see aid as a means of pursuing their own interests at the expense of alleviating poverty and inequality, says Graham Teskey.

Income taxation is a hot and very sensitive topic in Papua New Guinea. Last January’s Port Moresby riots were provoked by the police going on strike after a payroll ...

Although the Trump administration is now attempting to walk back some of the most obviously murderous aspects of its aid freeze, its ramifications remain: the damage already done, the effects on work ...

Among the more than two dozen executive orders issued by President Donald Trump during his first day in office was an order to pause US development assistance for 90 days to undertake an “assessment ...

In the first part of this two-part series, we argued that while growing concerns with crime and lawlessness have led the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) and other leaders to call for tougher ...

Once upon a time governance was not a thing in development. It was only about thirty years ago that the ideas of a few academic scribblers began to filter into the development discourse and challenge ...

In previous blogs in this series, we’ve shown that while people in Australia are generally happy with current immigration policy settings toward the Pacific (part 1), there is less support for the ...