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

Pacific people have long known how to look after their own. Across the region, extended families, churches and communities have sustained systems of mutual care and support for centuries. In 1985, ...

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

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

Dr Bateteba Aselu is a Senior Coordinator, researcher, and co-designer at Live & Learn Environmental Education. Her research focuses on the intersection of indigenous knowledge, climate resilience, ...

Parental leave is an integral form of social policy that provides extensive benefits to children, parents, families and society more broadly. Maternity leave supports maternal health by providing time ...

Dr Aleksandar Deejay is a former Research Fellow with the School of Regulation and Global Governance at The Australian National University and former Executive Director at the Australasian Centre for ...

As I write, my eyes keep straying to the magnificent snow-capped peaks of the Andes out of the aeroplane window to my left. I am heading south, away from the Lithium Triangle, where I have spent a ...

The advent of a more punitive geopolitical environment under the second Trump administration creates fresh challenges to the diplomatic agency of Pacific Island states. Since the 1970s, these small ...

Over the years psephologists and pundits have made use of all manner of different approaches to predict election outcomes. Polls are, of course, the most obvious one and — notwithstanding the ...

In the lead-up to independence in Papua New Guinea in 1975, a lively debate took place over what should be the appropriate strategy for the country’s economic development. On the one hand, the ...

Yesterday, Telstra announced that it was buying Digicel Pacific. Telstra itself is only paying $270 million, and the Australian government $1.33 billion. Yet, Telstra is obtaining 100% ownership. The ...