Public office remains a double-edged sword in Indonesia, bringing a stable income but also many demands for support, says Garry Rosario da Gama.

The late Agnes Titus’s friends and colleagues celebrate her 50-year contribution to peace and women’s rights in Bougainville.

PNG’s lowest tier of government, local level governments, or LLGs, face a variety of problems. Key among them is that LLG numbers (and the ward electorates they comprise) have grown uncontrollably ...

Crime fiction is abidingly popular. Five of the top ten books bought in Australia last week were mystery novels. Why is that so? Partly the reason is the obvious fun of working out a puzzle, but fans ...

The migration deal that Tuvalu has obtained under the Falepili Union is quite remarkable, say Stephen Howes and Finn Clarke.

Matthew Dornan and Sachini Muller examine Comtrade data to explore the changing nature of Australia and China's trade ties with the Pacific region.

The PIF SG dispute provides an opportunity to re-examine and chart new forms of Pacific regionalism, says Tarcisius Kabutaulaka.

Australia's aid is flatlining and its generosity declining, and DFAT needs a better handle on which programs are under-performing, says Stephen Howes.

2024 started terribly for Papua New Guinea as civil riots rocked the nation. What started as a protest by law enforcement officers (police, defence force and corrections staff) on 10 January over high ...

Huiyuan Liu and Stephen Howes analyse the 2021 Australia census results, and count twice as many people of Pacific heritage than in 2006.

Who receives remittances, how much, and what are they used for? The Pacific Labour Mobility Survey has some answers, say Edwards and coauthors.