Australians hold many mistaken beliefs about immigration, which might explain some negative attitudes, say Alyssa Leng, Ryan Edwards and Terence Wood.

Businesses, individuals and governments have faced difficulties obtaining foreign exchange (FX) in PNG over the last decade.

A new survey finds the Australian public are largely happy for Pacific migration policy settings to stay the same, say Leng, Edwards and Wood.

Bougainville needs continued peacebuilding support, not just efforts to strengthen law and justice, say Sinclair Dinnen, Dennis Kuiai and Miranda Forsyth.

The Australasian AID Conference was held on 3-5 December 2024 in Canberra. Conference presentations are now available on the Devpolicy ANU website. View keynote addresses and selected conference ...

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. Posts on the Devpolicy Blog are ...

The 2024-25 federal budget update, released in December, contained additional funding to support the provision of $100 million over five years in budget support to Nauru as part of a new bilateral ...

Part 1 of this two-part blog series explained the constitutional limitations on changes to PNG’s electoral maps and the process that led to the most recent changes. The new set of Electoral Boundary ...

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 ...

As communities across Vanuatu welcomed a new year and contemplated multiple aspiring political candidates ahead of the 16 January snap election, a popular reggae song was making the rounds.