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Lisa Singh 6 hours ago Two dates, one wound: What Girmit Day means for Fiji’s future For descendants of Indian indentured labourers in Fiji, 14 May carries two histories that are still being reconciled.
Hakiki Sandhika Raja 8 hours ago Indonesia’s Nemesis is the AI watchdog that cries wolf Indonesia’s citizen-built AI procurement tracker is exposing waste but generating its own accountability problems.
Larelle Bossi 10 hours ago Ocean finance and the risk of bluewashing in the Pacific Without governance grounded in regional values, blue finance risks repackaging extractive development as sustainability.
Nick Kemp 17 hours ago Governments across the Indo-Pacific are getting busier without getting better prepared Rising administrative overhead is crowding out the capability-building that resilience to faster and more complex shocks actually requires.
Robert Walker 1 day ago Trump and Xi’s economic ceasefire is holding – just The US president secured agricultural purchases and Boeing orders from Beijing, but nothing that touches the major fault lines in the relationship.
Shameek Godara 1 day ago The real Thucydides Trap is the story we keep telling ourselves The framing reduces global affairs to two powers and closes the prospect of middle powers – including Australia – shaping their destiny.
Mary Watson‑Burton , Rachel Watson 1 day ago Good intentions, invisible outcomes: the place of disability in development Papua New Guinea’s new disability equity program signals a shift from policy commitment to delivery.
Henry Yep 1 day ago Rehearsal isn’t resilience The Indo-Pacific’s biggest preparedness problem is not a lack of exercises but institutions that rehearse the wrong threat with confidence.
Zane Goebel 15 May 2026 Indonesia capability gets a budget lifeline A welcome funding allocation has arrived – but the political winds that could reverse it are already blowing.