Facebook shutdown, tenuously linked to terrorism, raises serious constitutional, goverance and human rights issues, say ...

Fred Fisk has a good claim to be regarded as the Australian National University’s first development economist, argues John Conroy in a new book.

Australia’s foreign aid (Official Development Assistance or ODA) for 2025-26 is budgeted at $5.097 billion, a 2.7% increase ...

The continuing prohibition on girls’ education beyond Year 6 imposes a profound burden on Afghan society and the economy, ...

Papua New Guinea has nine months to strengthen its anti-money laundering (AML) measures to avoid being grey-listed following an evaluation by the Asia-Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG), a ...

The 2025-26 federal budget will see Australian Official Development Assistance (ODA) remain largely steady in real terms at an estimated $5.097 billion in the coming financial year, or 0.18% of Gross ...

World War II plunged Fred Fisk into the emerging field of ‘development’ in colonial Malaya. Feeling inadequate to the task, he looked to the 1950s literature – Amar Narain Agarwala, Sampat Pal Singh, ...

Supporting PNG university students to return to their home districts and share their learning with citizens is the most effective way to ensure rural communities are armed with greater knowledge in ...

Once upon a time, the US was concerned that Europe wasn’t pulling its weight. Not, though, in connection with defence spending. The issue in those days was the US’s dominance in the field of ...

In an era of increased geopolitical competition, there are growing calls for policy makers and citizens in Australia and New Zealand to improve their understanding of the Pacific Islands region. To ...