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 biggest beneficiaries from taking diaspora size into account are Kiribati (whose allocation doubles from 50 to 100) and Vanuatu (whose allocation increases from 70 to 100). The loser is Fiji (down ...

Foreign aid was increased by 4% over what had been projected last year to bring the 2024-25 aid budget to $4.961 billion, virtually unchanged from the (inflation-adjusted) 2023-24 level of $4.900 ...

Niki Baroy Niki Baroy is a Research Assistant at The Asia Foundation and a Social Researcher at the Western Sydney Regional Information and Research Service (WESTIR). Before starting her Master of ...

Abstract: The Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme is a guestworker program that enables people from Timor Leste and nine Pacific Island countries to work in Australia on temporary visas.

Abstract: Femili PNG’s mandate is to support survivors of family and sexual violence access the services they need. A new report summarises the main trends and patterns found from Femili PNG’s client ...

Abstract: Smallholders in Papua New Guinea are more likely to grow and sell a crop when they receive more income for their labour inputs. This is an important determinant of whether a crop will be ...

Jessica Mackenzie Jessica Mackenzie is the Chief of Policy and Advocacy at the Australian Council for International Development.

A direct result of the shift to larger contracts and use of facilities has been the increased concentration of the aid contracting market. Concentration of the contracting market has also occurred ...

by Stephen Howes, Michael Kabuni, Maholopa Laveil, Alyssa Leng, Kingtau Mambon, Thomas Wangi and Terence Wood ...

What started out as a trivial story barely worthy of public attention has grown into a full-blown crisis for the Sitiveni Rabuka-led government in Fiji. A Commission of Inquiry (COI) report into the ...