A minimum wage of 5 kina per hour would reverse declining food purchasing power due to price inflation since 2021, say Kristi ...

PNG Pukpuk security treaty invites consideration of the risks of disproportionate investment in defence, says Michael Kabuni.

The next 50 years could be worse for PNG if the lessons of the last 50 are not properly appreciated and applied, says Maholopa Laveil.

DFAT’s new NGO fund must recognise NGOs’ complex role in governance beyond advocacy and service delivery, say Nixon, Yates, Kraushar and Chittick.

Port Vila’s tiny literati scene has been abuzz with celebrations of home-grown, modern storytelling in recent months: first through the national micro-fiction writing awards and then the long-awaited ...

Four important reports were published in July that shed new light on trends in international development assistance for health (DAH) — bilateral and multilateral aid financing specifically to the ...

The first article in this series reported on the latest trends in development assistance for health and the second focused on the rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) globally and especially in ...

My first article in this three-part series summarised recent key trends in health aid financing globally. This article focuses on the growth in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) — the leading cause of ...

First launched over 20 years ago to highlight Australia’s interests in African mining and energy, the Africa Down Under Conference has become the largest African-focused mining event outside the ...

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In January this year, the managing director of Papua New Guinea’s Mineral Resources Authority declared that the proposal to develop what had once been touted as the world’s first deep-sea mine would ...

Although the Trump administration is now attempting to walk back some of the most obviously murderous aspects of its aid freeze, its ramifications remain: the damage already done, the effects on work ...