A recap of the year with a listing of our favourite and most popular blogs, plus links to event presentations and podcasts.

The Taliban’s denial of access to digital spaces violates human rights, especially women’s, say Benbow, Gunawansa and Zhu-Maguire.

“Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?” asked Graham Greene in Our Man in Havana, a theme in the novel being the onerous burdens governments and ...

I am a woman in business in Papua New Guinea. This is my 11th year managing a small business. The business focuses on sharing our people’s journeys and cultures through prints on fabric and women’s ...

Now that Australia has been granted the presidency of the negotiations for the COP31 global climate summit to be hosted by Türkiye in 2026, the Albanese government has said it will focus on the ...

Survey results show PNG males under-recognise the importance of female political representation, consent and non-violence, say Kapil and Howes.

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 ...

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. This ...

Although the Trump administration is now attempting to walk back some of the most obviously murderous aspects of its aid freeze, its ramifications remain: the damage already done, the effects on work ...

This report shares key findings from the first wave of the Pacific Labour Mobility Survey (PLMS). The PLMS is a new multi-country Pacific migration survey covering workers in three different schemes ...

The Pacific Labour Mobility Survey (PLMS) covers households in three Pacific countries – Tonga, Kiribati and Vanuatu – and workers in Australia’s Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) and Pacific Labour ...

The tumultuous dispute over the selection of the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), which led to Micronesian countries deciding to withdraw from the premier regional organisation, ...