Exploring community indifference to language loss in Papua New Guinea and its implications for linguistic research.

Despite political overtures, the rural communities in the province of Solomon Islands see little change, says Anouk Ride.

News articles about Tuvalu consistently depict the country from the perspective of climate loss. For example, media representations of Tuvalu’s Falepili Union Treaty with Australia have transformed a ...

What Carney's Davos speech means for middle powers like Australia navigating aid cuts, US disruption and multilateral reform.

FSM and RMI face dramatic depopulation via US migration. Can rising incomes stabilise their populations, as in Niue and Cook Islands?

The new media development policy being proposed by the Papua New Guinea Communications Minister, Timothy Masiu, could lead to more government control over the country’s relatively free media. The new ...

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Law, Governance and Policy, The Australian National University.

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Law, Governance and Policy, The Australian National University.

On 5 September 2023, I (Kofe) announced the unanimous passage by Tuvalu’s parliament of the Constitution of Tuvalu Act 2023. The new constitutional amendments will come into effect on 1 October 2023, ...

Last year, we tried to identify as accurately as possible the number of people with a Pacific Island heritage living in Australia counted in the 2006, 2011 and 2016 censuses. Now 2021 census data is ...

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Law, Governance and Policy, The Australian National University.

The Pacific Islands Forum and its secretariat is a complex bureaucracy that will take any individual at least a year to understand. It is a political organisation that continually works to balance the ...