An aid veteran revisits Lesotho and reflects on in-line technical assistance versus modern aid facilities in PNG and beyond.

Papua New Guinea has elected only ten women to its Parliament since it became independent in 1975. Of those, only three have ...

Analysis of Pacific Engagement Visa grants by country shows that Samoa is the biggest winner in relative terms, despite only ...

Analysis of two years of Pacific Engagement Visa data reveals rising success rates, so much so that visa processing was ...

Drawing on her experience in Tonga, Mele Fakatouato Mangisi argues that independence in small Pacific societies cannot rely ...

PNG university students share views on independence, leadership and values as the nation turns 50, in this first of a ...

As heightened interest in the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders Meeting in Palau last month subsides, it is worth reflecting on what the meeting tells us about Pacific regionalism, and what it doesn ...

In June 2025, the PNG government removed tax from ten basic food items (rice, flour, tinned fish, tinned meat, chicken, noodles, biscuits, cooking oil, tea and coffee), with the aim of easing ...

Average life expectancy across the Pacific is 68.8 years, up from 52.7 in 1960. That’s a significant increase, but it is well below the rate of progress that middle-income countries as a group have ...