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 ...

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

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

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

As the dust settles on the United Nations COP30 climate talks in Brazil, a lot of questions remain. Ten years on from the Paris Agreement, are the UN talks still fit for purpose? How can countries ...

With the increasing attention given to adaptation at COP30 in Belem, water is moving from the sidelines to centre stage. 90% of disasters in the last decade were water-related, and with increasing ...

The Pukpuk Treaty between Papua New Guinea and Australia has been hailed as a landmark military agreement, with both prime ministers reportedly agreeing on the text but holding off on signing. But ...

This is the final post in a three-part series on the work of a program seeking to strengthen relations between citizens and the state in Papua New Guinea. The vast majority of Papua New Guineans are ...

Timor-Leste has a reputation for having some of the slowest and most expensive internet services in the world. But things are beginning to change. Timor-Leste is one of the last countries in the ...

This is a further instalment in the Pacific Family Matters series. Look at the Australians, they’ve tried every approach to giving aid here, and nothing’s worked. She worked for a small organisation ...

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 ...

This is a further instalment in the Pacific Family Matters series. The May 2025 federal election has resulted in a parity parliament in Australia. For the first time since Federation, both chambers of ...