The Tropical Forests Forever Facility launched at COP30 represents a promising new financial model to protect our region's forests, says Peter Raynes.

This blog updates the Development Policy Centre’s 2022 overview of Australian aid program procurement administered by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). In 2022, Huiyuan Liu found ...

Not helping women plan pregnancies is a missed opportunity to reduce PNG's birth rate and related pressures on public ...

Despite repeated warnings, those with the power to act failed to prevent the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives, says ...

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Law, Governance and Policy, The Australian National University.

On the occasion of Papua New Guinea’s 50th anniversary of independence, I want to acknowledge some of my favourite elements that make up the nation of PNG. These are some of the things that impress me ...

This report sheds light on the nature of political will towards anti-corruption reform in PNG, through a rapid political economy analysis approach, with a view to informing and improving policy ...

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Law, Governance and Policy, The Australian National University.

What started out as a trivial story barely worthy of public attention has grown into a full-blown crisis for the Sitiveni Rabuka-led government in Fiji. A Commission of Inquiry (COI) report into the ...

This is a further instalment in the Pacific Family Matters series. Media freedom is a crucial element of a functioning democracy. In the Pacific Islands region, media freedom levels differ. This post ...

Samoa’s Head of State, His Highness Tuimaleali’ifano Vaaletoa Sualauvi II, has officially dissolved Samoa’s Parliament, effective 3 June 2025, following the defeat of the government’s 2025–26 budget.

For decades, the Pacific Islands region has been reliant on donor funding to support development, governance and capacity-building initiatives. While donor support has played a role in strengthening ...