Richard Curtain and Randall Prior map the PALM scheme's welfare support system and find it comprehensive on paper but ...

Australia's aid transparency has improved, but publishing two key DFAT datasets would transform what researchers can analyse.

Why Australia needs a bigger, grant-based climate finance pledge and honest accounting reforms ahead of COP31. Analysis from ...

Facebook is strangling Pacific journalism, with some news organisations losing up to 70% of their audience almost overnight. The Pacific Newsroom recorded a 70% fall in Facebook views. Melanesian News ...

Recent developments surrounding Papua New Guinea’s entry into Australia’s National Rugby League (NRL) through the PNG Chiefs have generated understandable excitement. For many Papua New Guineans, the ...

As demonstrated in the previous article in this two-part series, Pacific publishers have seen sharp, unexplained falls in their Facebook reach, at a time when much of the region depends on the ...

This is the first in a three-part series in which the author, an I-Kiribati researcher, argues that Australia’s and New Zealand’s Pacific migration schemes are unfair to Kiribati. Part 1 sets out the ...

Although generally positive, the 2025 OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) peer review of Australian aid, discussed on this blog by Cameron Hill, made several pointed observations about the ...

This speech was delivered at the launch of the Australian Council for International Development’s (ACFID) State of the Sector Report 2026 on 6 August 2026. I acknowledge the Ngunnawal people, the ...

In Part 1 of this series, the author set out the census evidence that I-Kiribati are under-represented in Pacific migration pathways compared to Tuvaluans and citizens of states with Compacts of Free ...

At its triennial national conference, the Australian Labor Party adopted its latest policy platform which says that the party will “increas[e] aid every year that we are in office” and “work on ...