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  • 7 Nov 2024
    • Pacific Islands
    • Solomon Islands

    Fake kidnaps and real dangers of disinformation in Pacific Islands

    Anouk Ride
    Islanders have long joked about “coconut wireless” storytelling – but more understanding of these networks is needed in the digital age.
  • 1 Nov 2024
    • Pacific Islands
    • New Caledonia
    • Sex and Gender

    An all-male Pacific peace mission to New Caledonia excludes women’s voices in the crisis

    Nicole George
    Women are being made invisible, yet their actions are consequential.
  • 30 Oct 2024
    • Pacific Islands
    • Review

    The Translator: What is "strategic infrastructure"?

    Laura Salt
    Building lines of influence in the Pacific.
  • 29 Oct 2024
    • Transnational Challenges
    • Pacific Islands

    Pacific Islands need stronger corrections systems to address transnational and organised crime

    Danielle Watson
    Rehabilitation is too often a forgotten arena in regional efforts.
  • 28 Oct 2024
    • China
    • Pacific Islands
    • Papua New Guinea

    China’s language diplomacy in Papua New Guinea

    Bernard Yegiora
    Local Mandarin programs are gaining momentum as a tool to foster closer relations.
  • 23 Oct 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Pacific Islands

    Biases within the capital flows to the Pacific

    Jinita Prasad
    A pervasive power imbalance stops the small steps needed for better aid outcomes in the region.
  • 23 Oct 2024
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands

    The Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme is helping some workers but harming others – it needs to be reformed

    Matt Withers
    Lopsided economic benefits are intimately linked to prevailing conditions of employment.
  • 21 Oct 2024
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Papua New Guinea

    PNG’s NRL bid: Making the most of the high-stakes game

    Oliver Nobetau
    Accountability is not just a question for donors but for the recipient country, too.
  • 18 Oct 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Australian Foreign Aid
    • Pacific Islands

    Can Australia’s new Humanitarian Policy deliver?

    Meg Keen
    The effort is laudable, and a step in the right direction, with more ambition and local engagement needed.
  • 17 Oct 2024
    • Pacific Islands
    • Samoa

    Samoa: The Switzerland of the Pacific

    Sheridan Ward
    With CHOGM leaders about to touch down in Apia, the nation’s mandate for peace and non-violence will be on show.
  • 4 Oct 2024
    • Pacific Islands

    Paris offers signs of hope for New Caledonia

    Denise Fisher
    Recent government statements represent a major conciliatory effort by France.
  • 2 Oct 2024
    • Pacific Islands
    • The Biden Presidency
    • The Trump Presidency
    • United States
    • US Elections

    Kamala Harris and the Pacific Islands

    Meg Keen
    Pacific Island countries want to hear more from the Democratic nominee about how she will support the region.
  • 20 Sep 2024
    • Pacific Islands
    • Papua New Guinea

    The days lost to PNG’s development and economy over votes of no confidence

    Catherine Wilson
    Diminished parliamentary productivity has ramifications not only for the progress of legislation but the well-being of the nation.
  • 20 Sep 2024
    • Pacific Islands

    Reducing the role of cash in Pacific Island economies

    Jessica Collins , Hilman Palaon
    From QR codes to mobile wallets, innovative tech solutions can help the region transition its financial ecosystem.
  • 12 Sep 2024
    • Australia
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Australia's Economy
    • Pacific Islands

    The real risks of exploitation for Pacific workers in Australia

    Sophia Kagan
    While neither blackbirding nor systemic modern slavery, the PALM scheme has many loopholes that should be addressed.
  • 10 Sep 2024
    • Taiwan
    • Pacific Islands

    Beijing’s "one-China principle" is spreading

    Benjamin Herscovitch
    It is untrue that Taiwan is an "inalienable part" of China, but that's not stopping governments from Kiribati to Honduras from saying it.
  • 6 Sep 2024
    • Pacific Islands
    • Tonga

    Tonga and His Majesty’s Armed Forces: A military made for peace

    Sheridan Ward
    This Pacific country avoided colonisation not by force, but by adopting the trappings of state. A next step awaits.
  • 30 Aug 2024
    • Pacific Islands

    Long-range leaders in Melanesia: Why you need to know about them

    Miranda Forsyth , Sinclair Dinnen
    Carefully mixing metaphors helps to understand a crucial yet underappreciated actor in Pacific politics.
  • 28 Aug 2024
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Tuvalu

    The Falepili Union: A Pacific response to the greatest global challenges

    Pat Conroy
    A world-first treaty with Australia ensures Tuvalu’s statehood will continue, even in the face of a climate catastrophe.
  • 26 Aug 2024
    • Transnational Challenges
    • Pacific Islands
    • Tonga

    The down-low on deportations and drugs in Tonga

    Henrietta McNeill
    The practice by Australia of sending criminals back to their home country can pose a risk to regional security without the proper reintegration support.
  • 21 Aug 2024
    • Asia
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australian Foreign Aid
    • Foreign Policy
    • Pacific Islands

    Australia takes a big first step to engage civil society in foreign policy

    Heather Wrathall , Jasmine Stephens
    With a new multi-million dollar fund, Canberra underscores the importance of robust and transparent democracy.
  • 21 Aug 2024
    • Climate change
    • United Nations
    • Pacific Islands
    • New Caledonia
    • Tonga

    Polycrisis in the Pacific: How leaders will respond at the PIF Summit in Tonga

    Mihai Sora
    A tiny capital will be host to a huge regional agenda.
  • 13 Aug 2024
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy
    • Climate change
    • Pacific Islands
    • The Americas

    Where to for Australia’s First Nations Foreign Policy?

    'Alopi Latukefu
    The climate is right to make environmental diplomacy a centrepiece of this new approach to the world.
  • 8 Aug 2024
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Global Economy
    • Pacific Islands
    • China and the Pacific
    • Nauru
    • Solomon Islands
    • Tonga
    • Tuvalu
    • Vanuatu

    Economic diplomacy: Banking on the Pacific

    Greg Earl
    Rebuilding regional banking is unlikely to pay dividends without an underlying business revival.
  • 7 Aug 2024
    • Pacific Islands
    • United States

    Looking back at the Biden administration’s Pacific strategy

    Isabelle Zhu-Maguire
    Big promises haven’t always been backed up by delivery. But the main question is about enduring attention.
  • 30 Jul 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Pacific Islands
    • Sex and Gender

    Gender equality, the Pacific way

    Mercy Masta , Elisabeth Jackson
    “Using culture to change culture” is how to make real progress in addressing a longstanding regional challenge.
  • 29 Jul 2024
    • Pacific Islands
    • New Caledonia

    The unheard potential of moderate voices in New Caledonia’s crisis

    Catherine Wilson
    Hope for a “common destiny” is not yet lost despite the violent unrest and hardening views.
  • 16 Jul 2024
    • Pacific Islands

    The role for Pacific media in charting a pragmatic global outlook

    Shailendra Bahadur Singh , Amit Sarwal
    Journalism from the region is essential in shaping views of the region.
  • 11 Jul 2024
    • France
    • Pacific Islands
    • New Caledonia

    A surprising litmus test for New Caledonia’s independence parties

    Denise Fisher
    The French election saw New Caledonia’s independence parties attain an overall majority in the first territory-wide poll since the 2018–21 referendums.
  • 26 Jun 2024
    • Pacific Islands
    • New Caledonia

    New Caledonia: France’s way or the Pacific way?

    Denise Fisher
    Legal, yes. Constructive? A pattern is emerging.
  • 24 Jun 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Pacific Islands

    Fragmented and burdensome: Small European donors are clogging Pacific aid channels

    Riley Duke
    Competition, political self-interest, and poor coordination are overburdening the region’s administrations.
  • 19 Jun 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands

    Is a new Australian police program what the Pacific needs?

    Danielle Watson
    Engagement on policing is crucial, but it must be regionally led.
  • 12 Jun 2024
    • France
    • Pacific Islands
    • New Caledonia

    France’s legislative elections and complications for New Caledonia

    Denise Fisher
    There is only hope, however vain, that this move may provide space for calm reassessment of positions.
  • 3 Jun 2024
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Public Opinion

    Australians watching Pacific with concern and care

    Meg Keen
    Chinese influence and Pacific migration pathways are on Australian minds this year, according to latest Lowy Institute Poll.
  • 31 May 2024
    • Pacific Islands
    • Fiji

    Fiji: Positioning and posturing on politicians pay

    Jon Fraenkel
    Drawing on past experience and that of neighbouring countries, MPs and ministers should not be determining their own salaries.
  • 28 May 2024
    • Climate change
    • Pacific Islands
    • Tuvalu

    A portrait of a climate champion: Who is Enele Sopoaga? 

    Isabelle Zhu-Maguire
    The Pacific leader is giving voice to the plight of the region and posing a direct challenge to Australia’s environmental diplomacy.
  • 27 May 2024
    • Pacific Islands
    • New Caledonia

    Next steps for New Caledonia in the wake of Macron’s proposals

    Denise Fisher
    A flying visit by the French president to the Pacific territory leaves a long road ahead.
  • 14 May 2024
    • France
    • Pacific Islands
    • New Caledonia

    Violence erupts in New Caledonia as independence supporters oppose legislation in Paris

    Denise Fisher
    Macron’s plan has backfired. But there can be no sustainable solution without cooperation of all parties.
  • 7 May 2024
    • China
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Papua New Guinea

    PNG-China: What’s to gain in any policing deal?

    Oliver Nobetau
    It seems we’ll be hearing more about this prospective arrangement.
  • 3 May 2024
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Pacific Islands
    • Solomon Islands

    Can Solomon Islands’ new prime minister really be friends to all?

    Mihai Sora
    The success of the PM’s premiership will depend on his approach to pressing domestic problems as much as issues of national sovereignty.
  • 3 May 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands

    Australia’s superannuation rules leave Pacific workers out of pocket

    Jessica Collins
    The government must reconsider its tax on the Pacific’s poorest.
  • 2 May 2024
    • Pacific Islands
    • Bougainville
    • Papua New Guinea

    Bougainville’s future: The hard questions

    Oliver Nobetau
    There are good reasons to take time before Bougainville cuts loose from PNG.
  • 1 May 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Climate change
    • Sustainability
    • Pacific Islands

    Fixing the plastics problem when delivering urgent aid

    Margaret Nesi
    Coping with climate change is hard enough. Sustainability cannot be overlooked in humanitarian action across the Pacific.
  • 26 Apr 2024
    • Pacific Islands

    Solomon Islands: Unexpected defeat for Sogavare

    Jon Fraenkel
    Sogavare was tipped for a sweeping victory but suffered a major defeat. Now Solomon Islands politicians must form a new government, and keep the peace.
  • 18 Apr 2024
    • Pacific Islands
    • Papua New Guinea

    It’s important to acknowledge PNG’s own interests with China

    Michael Kabuni
    And a big part of that is bargaining power with the West.
  • 18 Apr 2024
    • Australia
    • European Union
    • Trade
    • Climate change
    • Pacific Islands

    Is the EU Australia’s blind spot in the Indo-Pacific?

    Anne McNaughton , Frédéric Grare
    In region worried about militarisation, what is perceived as the EU’s weakness by Australia may be its main strength.
  • 16 Apr 2024
    • France
    • Pacific Islands
    • New Caledonia

    New Caledonia: Uncertainty and division intensify as Paris imposes its will

    Denise Fisher
    Work is needed now to ensure history does not repeat.
  • 11 Apr 2024
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Pacific Islands
    • China and the Pacific
    • Fiji
    • Nauru
    • New Zealand
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Solomon Islands
    • Tonga
    • Tuvalu
    • Vanuatu

    Pacific Engagement Visas: New developments but quotas unknown

    Natasha Turia , Akka Rimon
    Australia’s highly competitive new visa lottery has much leg work to do to make fair allocations between countries.
  • 10 Apr 2024
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Pacific Islands
    • China and the Pacific
    • Fiji
    • New Zealand
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Solomon Islands

    Solomon Islands: Democracy on the ballot

    Meg Keen , Oliver Nobetau
    Next week, voters will determine not only political leadership but the future of democratic processes.
  • 26 Mar 2024
    • Japan
    • Maritime Security
    • Pacific Islands

    Should Japan expand its security partnerships in the Pacific?

    Daniel Mandell
    Four reasons why rushing in may not be the answer.
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