📢 AAC2026 Keynote speaker: Nick Enrich, Former USAID head of global health Tickets on sale till Nov 25 ➡️ events.humanitix.com/2026-au… 2-4 Dec ➡️ crawford.anu.edu.au/devpolic… @AbtGlobalImpact | @ACIARAustralia | @AdamSmithInt | @Cowater_Intl | @TetraTech | @urcintl

‼️Join us today to explore how businesses can drive social change in PNG! 💡Hear from 3 practitioners as they share insights, challenges and lessons from development initiatives. ⏰26 Oct, 5.00-6.30pm AEDT 📍In person @ANUCrawford or Zoom 📝 Register: events.devpolicy.org/2026102…

Why Tonga's Chinese debt won't be forgiven, and who pays instead By Jack Salmon Why China won't forgive Tonga's Eximbank debt, and how Australian budget support is quietly covering the shortfall. devpolicy.org/why-tongas-chi…

🌏Discover how businesses can drive social change in PNG! 💡Hear from 3 experienced practitioners as they share insights, challenges and lessons from development initiatives. ⏰26 Oct, 5.00-6.30pm AEDT 📍In person @ANUCrawford or Zoom 📝 Register: events.devpolicy.org/2026102…

This week: PNG's three women MPs eye 2027, plus PNG's economy, Lesotho aid lessons, Solomon Islands journalist safety and PNG civic education. tractatus.idrys.org/read/dev…

Come to ANU on Monday!🌏Discover how businesses can drive social change in PNG 🇵🇬 💡Hear from 3 experienced practitioners as they share insights, challenges & lessons from development initiatives. 26 Oct ⏰5.00-6.30pm AEDT @ANUCrawford or Zoom Register: events.devpolicy.org/2026102…

🚨Registration Open Join us as Anna Kapil and Terence Wood presents “2026 Annual Student Opinion Survey" ⏰6 Nov, 12.30-1.30pm PGT; 1.30-2.30pm AEDT 📍In person @Crawfordschool or #UPNG or Zoom 📝 Register: events.devpolicy.org/2026110…

New survey of PNG student teachers finds strong confidence teaching civic values and national symbols, but much shakier confidence on the Constitution and civic institutions like government agencies. devpolicy.org/how-prepared-d… #PNG #CivicEducation #Education

Solomon Islands should set up a national framework to protect journalists before a crisis forces the issue, argues a new Devpolicy Blog piece. Legal threats, online harassment and source-identifying police searches are already testing Pacific… devpolicy.org/journalist-saf…

📢 2026 Mitchell Oration: Sri Mulyani Indrawati (Indonesia) Buy #AAAC2026 tix now! ➡️ events.humanitix.com/2026-au… 2-4 Dec ANU ➡️ crawford.anu.edu.au/devpolic… @Asia_Foundation | @AbtGlobalImpact | @ACIARAustralia | @AdamSmithInt | @Cowater_Intl | @devintellab | @TetraTech | @urcintl

PNG's economy has rebounded sharply since 2022, with non-resource GDP growth near boom-era levels. But formal employment is growing only as fast as the population, so jobs concerns mean it's too early to call it a boom. devpolicy.org/struggle-refor… #PNG #PapuaNewGuinea

🌏Discover how businesses can drive social change in PNG! 💡Hear from 3 experienced practitioners as they share insights, challenges and lessons from development initiatives. ⏰26 Oct, 5.00-6.30pm AEDT 📍In person @ANUCrawford or Zoom 📝 Register: events.devpolicy.org/2026102…

🚨Registration Open Join us as Anna Kapil and Terence Wood presents “2026 Annual Student Opinion Survey" ⏰6 Nov, 12.30-1.30pm PGT; 1.30-2.30pm AEDT 📍In person @Crawfordschool or #UPNG or Zoom 📝 Register: events.devpolicy.org/2026110…

A development specialist returns to Lesotho decades later to find his old water systems still running - and asks why "in-line" placements worked better than today's contractor-run aid facilities. devpolicy.org/ode-to-in-line… #AidEffectiveness #InternationalDevelopment #PNG

PNG has elected just ten women to Parliament since 1975. The three now serving — Rufina Peter, Kessy Sawang and Francesca Semoso — face a historic test in 2027: can any of them become only the fourth woman ever to win re-election? devpolicy.org/papua-new-guin… #PNG

This week: Pacific governments respond to the fuel price shock, and two posts on the Pacific Engagement Visa's first two years, plus PNG students on 50 years of independence and Tonga on practised independence. tractatus.idrys.org/read/dev…

🚶‍♀️Join us at the Australasian AID Conference on 2-4 December! Tickets on sale until 25 Nov 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/2026-au… #AAC2026 program at @ourANU ➡️ crawford.anu.edu.au/devpolic… @asia_foundation @AbtGlobalImpact @ACIAR @AdamSmithInt @Cowater_Intl @devintellab @TetraTech @urcintl

🚨Registration Open Join us as Anna Kapil and Terence Wood presents “2026 Annual Student Opinion Survey" ⏰6 Nov, 12.30-1.30pm PGT; 1.30-2.30pm AEDT 📍In person @Crawfordschool or #UPNG or Zoom 📝 Register: events.devpolicy.org/2026110…

After two years, Samoa has the best Pacific Engagement Visa success rate at 100%, followed by Tuvalu at 96% — but PNG and Fiji take the biggest shares of visas overall. Analysis by @devpolicy. devpolicy.org/two-years-of-t… #PacificEngagementVisa #PacificIslands #MigrationPolicy

Pacific Engagement Visa grants surged in year two, but Australia's 3,000-visa annual cap and ballot over-selection mean some ballot winners may never actually get a visa. devpolicy.org/two-years-of-t… #PacificEngagementVisa #MigrationPolicy #PacificIslands #AustraliaPacific