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  • 11 Oct 2022
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Pacific Islands
    • Papua New Guinea
    • United States

    The Global Fragility Act in PNG: can the US succeed?

    Jessica Collins
    A seemingly radical approach that relies on prevention and relinquishing control may be a foreign policy game-changer.
  • 16 Sep 2022
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australian Foreign Aid

    Five reasons Australia should establish a Development Finance Institution

    Roland Rajah
    A DFI would expand Canberra’s development toolkit and re-establish the country as a serious financing partner in Asia.
  • 7 Oct 2021
    • Melanesia
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Fiji
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Solomon Islands
    • Vanuatu

    Pacific Step-Up needs a Covid-era reboot

    Edward Cavanough
    Australia must bolster its vaccine assistance with practical fixes, starting with energy and cold-storage solutions.
  • 2 Jul 2021
    • Diplomacy
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australia
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Sex and Gender

    Forgiveness not permission: A feminist foreign policy

    Alice Ridge , Joanna Pradela
    If Australia wants to adopt a values-based approach to the world, the next step is obvious.
  • 16 Feb 2021
    • United States
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australia
    • Development Assistance

    What Biden means for Australia’s aid policy

    Dane Moores
    The US president has signalled a serious commitment to bolstering international development.
  • 25 Sep 2020
    • Australian Development Assistance

    Office of Development Effectiveness: Praised, then abolished

    Stephen Howes
    Two well-regarded evaluation bodies have been quietly scrapped. Why?
  • 4 Apr 2019
    • Australian Development Assistance

    Budget 2019: the race to the bottom for foreign aid

    Jonathan Pryke
    As these cuts continue the downward trend of aid spending, so too does Australia’s decline in international standings.
  • 24 Nov 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • Australian Foreign Aid
    • Australian Development Assistance

    The fall and fall of Australia’s aid program

    Annmaree O’Keeffe
    The White Paper diminishes and stifles Australia's international development story.
  • 6 Nov 2017
    • Australian Foreign Aid
    • Australian Development Assistance

    Aid & development links: Female empowerment, OECD ODA, tax havens and more

    Alexandre Dayant
    Links on updates across the aid and development field.
  • 26 Sep 2016
    • Australian Development Assistance

    Aid & development links: UK aid, WHO's next head, globalisation, and more

    Jonathan Pryke
  • 21 Dec 2015
    • Australian Development Assistance

    Aid & development links: Migrants Day, UK's new aid strategy, good news in 2015 and more

    Jonathan Pryke
  • 7 Dec 2015
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Development Assistance

    Aid & development links: 'lazy' aid recipients, Australian charity, malaria fund and more

    Jonathan Pryke
  • 30 Nov 2015
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australia and the Pacific

    Aid & development links: new C'wealth chief, metadata census, fundraising costs and more

    Jonathan Pryke
  • 9 Nov 2015
    • Australian Development Assistance

    Aid & development links: ranking aid influence, governance mojo, longer lives for all and more

    Jonathan Pryke
  • 25 Sep 2015
    • Diplomacy
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Foreign Policy

    Turnbull's new cabinet is great news for the Pacific

    Jonathan Pryke
  • 14 Sep 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Diplomacy
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • International Relations
    • Foreign Policy
    • Migration

    Australia's foreign policy and refugee resettlement

    Claire Higgins
  • 3 Sep 2015
    • Australian Development Assistance

    The worst frost and drought in Papua New Guinea since 1997: What happens next?

    Mike Bourke
  • 1 Sep 2015
    • Diplomacy
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Australia and the Pacific

    Australia–Papua New Guinea relations: Could do better

  • 31 Aug 2015
    • Diplomacy
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australian Perspective
    • The Asia Pacific's Economies
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Australia and the Pacific

    Papua New Guinea: Keep calm and muddle through?

  • 23 Jul 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Development Assistance
    • Foreign Policy
    • Migration
    • Papua New Guinea

    Australia's PNG solution: The seeds of sectarianism?

    William Stoltz
  • 23 Jun 2015
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australia and the Pacific

    In Papua's health centres, a glimpse of dysfunction and corruption

    Michael Bachelard
  • 19 Jun 2015
    • Public Opinion
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australia
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Public Opinion Polling

    For Australians, is PNG a partner or an obligation?

  • 28 May 2015
    • Diplomacy
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australian Diplomacy

    A way forward for Indonesia-Australia relations

  • 21 May 2015
    • Diplomacy
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Papua New Guinea

    Australia-PNG diplomatic spat needs swift resolution

    Jenny Hayward-Jones
  • 13 May 2015
    • Global Economy
    • Diplomacy
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australian Perspective
    • The Asia Pacific's Economies
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Emerging Donors
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Australia and the Pacific

    Australia's Pacific aid budget spared from serious cuts

  • 7 May 2015
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Development Assistance

    Is enough being done to protect aid workers?

    Susanne Schmeidl
  • 6 May 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Diplomacy
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Foreign Policy
    • Migration

    The influence of geography, technology and money on refugee migration

    Marie McAuliffe
  • 1 May 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Diplomacy
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • International Relations
    • Development Assistance
    • Foreign Policy
    • Migration

    Australia's unsustainable approach to asylum-seekers

    Jane McAdam
  • 24 Apr 2015
    • Diplomacy
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Public Diplomacy And International Broadcasting
    • International Relations
    • Development Assistance
    • Digital Disruption
    • Foreign Policy
    • E-diplomacy

    Six ideas for rescuing Australian digital diplomacy

    Danielle Cave
  • 27 Mar 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Global Economy
    • Australian Perspective
    • Sustainability
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Resource security
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Development Assistance
    • Climate change

    Cyclone Pam: A photo essay from a volunteer

  • 16 Mar 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Global Economy
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australian Perspective
    • The Asia Pacific's Economies
    • Institutions
    • Regional relationships
    • Country And Regional Studies
    • Global Economic Governance
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • Australia and Asia
    • US-China

    The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the rise of regionalism

    Stephen Grenville
  • 13 Mar 2015
    • Diplomacy
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Australia and Asia
    • Development Assistance

    Australia-Laos rights dialogue: More than just rhetoric needed

    Shaivalini Parmar
  • 12 Mar 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Diplomacy
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australian Perspective
    • Institutions
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Public Diplomacy And International Broadcasting
    • International Relations
    • Australia and Asia
    • Foreign Policy

    Tough road for Asia's women activists

    Elaine Pearson
  • 5 Nov 2014
    • Diplomacy
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • International Relations
    • Australia and the Pacific

    The case for Pacific Island regionalism

    Brett Mason
  • 31 Oct 2014
    • Diplomacy
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Emerging Donors
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Development Assistance
    • Foreign Policy

    Australia and the AIIB: A lost opportunity

    Philippa Brant
  • 9 Oct 2014
    • Global Issues
    • Diplomacy
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Development Assistance
    • Foreign Policy

    Ebola: Lessons from earlier pandemic scares

    Annmaree O’Keeffe
  • 29 Sep 2014
    • Australian Development Assistance

    Aid & development links: New aid announcements, Clinton Global Initiative, China's humanitarian assistance and more

    Stephanie Dunstan
  • 25 Sep 2014
    • Global Economy
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Development Assistance
    • Foreign Policy

    Why Australia should join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

    Philippa Brant
  • 23 Sep 2014
    • Diplomacy
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Fiji
    • Foreign Policy

    Fiji's elections: Four lessons for Australian diplomacy

    Jonathan Schultz
  • 12 Sep 2014
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Fiji

    Fiji's election: More to do to restore democracy

    Jenny Hayward-Jones
  • 10 Sep 2014
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Development Assistance

    Abbott's first year: Nowhere to be seen in the Pacific

    Nic Maclellan
  • 10 Jul 2014
    • Australian Development Assistance

    Pacific island links: Pacific in Afghanistan, PNG, depopulation, climate change and more

    Tess Newton Cain
  • 19 Jun 2014
    • Australian Development Assistance

    Australia's foreign aid policy: New paradigm or more of the same?

    Annmaree O’Keeffe
  • 29 May 2014
    • Australian Development Assistance

    Pacific island links: PNG special

    Tess Newton Cain
  • 26 May 2014
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Emerging Donors

    Aid & development links: Rice production, Kofi Annan, EU aid, MapAfrica and more

    Stephanie Dunstan
  • 22 May 2014
    • Australian Development Assistance

    Pacific island links: PNG politics, wellbeing, aid budget, a new PM in Vanuatu and more

    Tess Newton Cain
  • 21 May 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Solomon Islands

    Solomon Islands: Was RAMSI worth it?

  • 14 May 2014
    • China and the Pacific
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Emerging Donors

    Budget 2014: The end of an aid era?

  • 8 May 2014
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Solomon Islands

    The high price of RAMSI: Australia's lessons from the Solomon Islands

    Jenny Hayward-Jones
  • 23 Apr 2014
    • Australian Development Assistance

    Labour mobility key to Pacific future

    Luke Craven
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