A verse testimonial about PNG's women-led Hauskuk Initiative presented by Naomi Woyengu at an international disaster risk ...

FfD4 recognised that debt, climate and inequality are intertwined and that debtor countries need to create collective platforms, say Nixon, Surie and Su.

Pacific leaders facing a geostrategic tug-of-war should choose their own paths, aligned with their laws and cultures, says Celsus Talifilu.

In the Pacific, food is more than sustenance — it is identity, culture and community. Yet for many Samoan families, food has increasingly become a source of concern rather than comfort. In Samoa, the ...

Kanji Watanabe, the senior Japanese bureaucrat who is the central character in Akira Kurosawa’s movie Ikiru, learns he has terminal cancer. After decades of stamping meaningless files, he realises he ...

In Indonesia, every president carries a nickname reflecting how they wish to be remembered or how their supporters choose to frame them. Sukarno, the nation’s first president, is still celebrated as ...

The measure of national progress is not only political sovereignty but the health of communities, say Beeson, Charles and Babona.

Locally led development should above all focus on the truly local sites where disadvantage and local political leadership occur, says Mark Moran.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There was no fanfare. Just a statement from the New Zealand foreign minister, slipped out quietly amongst the usual stream of government announcements. As best I can tell only one news organisation ...