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.

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 ...

“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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

This is an edited version of an address delivered by Professor Sathirathai at the Australian National University (ANU) on 30 April 2025. The event was sponsored by the Australian Department of Foreign ...

Further details recently released in relation to the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union treaty reveal just what a good deal Tuvalu has obtained. We already knew that the treaty would give 280 special ...