The re-elected Labor Government‘s political capital should be used to improve the quality and measurement of Australia’s aid ...

The current OECD Development Assistance Committee peer review of Australia's aid effort takes place at a critical moment, ...

The Pacific Family Matters blog series explores priorities for the re-elected Australian Labor government’s engagement on development issues in the Pacific.

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

Who receives remittances and from whom? In 2021, personal remittances received to Tonga are estimated to be USD220 million, or equivalent to around 44% of Tongan gross domestic product (GDP). The ...

2024 started terribly for Papua New Guinea as civil riots rocked the nation. What started as a protest by law enforcement officers (police, defence force and corrections staff) on 10 January over high ...

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 ...

Further details recently released in relation to the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union treaty reveal just what a good deal Tuvalu has obtained. We already knew that the treaty would give 280 special ...

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong was putting it mildly when she noted in her Solomon Islands press conference in June that “there’s been a positive response” to the new Labor government’s ...

Suggested citation: Citation: Kanan, L 2025, “It’s not illegal to be pregnant”: Research report on reproductive justice and the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme, Development Policy Centre, ...

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

Vanessa Organo. Vanessa Organo is a Climate Change, Disasters and Human Mobility Specialist at the International Organization for Migration in Vanuatu.