It’s not always a bad thing if a piece of land means something different to migrants and customary landowners, say Sebastian Antoine Salay and Jennifer Day.

As Fiji inches toward the 2026 general elections, our nation stands at a pivotal juncture. The question looming over our political future is not merely about policies or party platforms but about ...

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.

Papua New Guinea is facing an electricity access crisis. Only 14% of its population has access to the grid, and even those connected experience unreliable and costly power. With rugged terrain, ...

Ro Naulu Mataitini is a founding member of the People’s Alliance Party (PAP). He resigned from his political post as Senior Vice President of the PAP to become an apolitical member of the 2023 ...

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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.

It has now been more than two months since Israel began to block the entry of food and medicine to Gaza. According to the World Food Programme, about 1.94 million people across the Gaza Strip ...

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.