In 46 years of independence, only seven women have been elected to Papua New Guinea’s parliament. Can the tide turn? LEANNE JORARI writes It seems fitting that the progressive political […]

This week, PNG’s Independent Consumer and Competition Commission (ICCC) rejected the acquisition of Westpac PNG by Kina Securities (the owner of Kina Bank) in its final determination. Since the ICCC […]

In early August, MP Nick Kuman sponsored a Private Member’s Bill in parliament designed to replace the country’s Limited Preferential Voting (LPV) electoral system with First Past the Post. If […]

In Papua New Guinea, district services improvement programme (DSIP) funding, given to 89 MPs representing open seats, is often talked about as a tool used to maintain government coalitions and […]

What can developing countries learn about expanding and strengthening their own health systems from the experience of rich countries? A report released this month on the comparative performance of 11 […]

Papua New Guinea (PNG)’s low Coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccination rate is well known. This blog provides some context for that, and points to the wider problem of falling national immunisation rates, […]

Annual Coronavirus vaccines could be a reality – but Australia is at least 18 months away from manufacturing its own, DONNA LUA reports From September – more than nine months […]

STEPHEN HOWES discusses more about the recent agriculture visa announcement by the Australian government. According to a joint media release, the visa “will be available to workers across the agriculture […]

Papua New Guinea is set to hold elections halfway through next year. Unlike many developing countries, PNG did not lapse into autocracy in the wake of independence. Its history of […]

ANU Press describes Unequal lives: Gender, race and class in the Western Pacific as a book that deals with the particular dilemmas of inequality in the Western Pacific. The authors […]