2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (672+ words) The Nakamal Agreement has been signed, but at what cost?...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (886+ words) On 6 July 2026, China launched a second intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test in the Pacific Ocean, following a previous test in 2024 that ended a four-decade hiatus. This latest sign of military modernisation forms part of a competition for primacy with the…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (315+ words) In my career as a jobbing consultant, I thought I had become reasonably adroit at predicting what “sensitivities” a draft report could elicit and prepare myself accordingly for the salvo from the official managing the project in question. There is…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (389+ words) These expenditures are politically and socially difficult to reduce. Children will remain in schools, teachers will continue to draw salaries, social welfare recipients — numbering some 130,000 — will depend on public support, and demand for public services will not diminish. Any government…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (719+ words) Last week was a big week in the Pacific, with the race between order and disorder, between cooperation and competition, brutally laid out. Fiji and Australia came together to set out their plan for promoting peace, security and greater economic…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (764+ words) Much of Ron Duncan’s research was concerned with the Pacific and he lived in Fiji from 2003 to 2007 when he headed the Pacific Institute of Advanced Studies in Development and Governance (PIAS-DG) at the University of the South Pacific (USP). Here…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (165+ words) The rapid assessment documents a practice called koda: blood is drawn from a vein into the barrel of a syringe, mixed with the drug crystals and reinjected. It is commonly used because it is said to produce a more intense…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (462+ words) Is the Pacific’s new climate architecture ready for its first real test?...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (479+ words) When discussions on security in Papua New Guinea come up, the focus often goes straight to tribal fighting, especially in the Highlands region. That is real and serious, but it is not the only thing that shapes how people feel…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (734+ words) Australian and international aid agencies have launched emergency appeals in response to the Venezuela earthquake. So far, the disaster has resulted in over 1,400 deaths, with tens of thousands of people still unaccounted for, and almost two million people requiring humanitarian…...