If Indonesia's leaders are serious about strengthening regional development, vertical fiscal transfers must be made automatic, says Ronny P Sasmita.

The Tropical Forests Forever Facility launched at COP30 represents a promising new financial model to protect our region's forests, says Peter Raynes.

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 ...

Not helping women plan pregnancies is a missed opportunity to reduce PNG's birth rate and related pressures on public ...

Despite repeated warnings, those with the power to act failed to prevent the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives, says ...

There has been a marked decline in Pacific development and progress against the SDGs since the early 2000s, attributable to the impacts of major disaster events, remoteness of Pacific Island countries ...

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 ...

For several years, Pacific businesses have been raising concerns about persistent workforce gaps resulting from the number of workers leaving for overseas work opportunities. In countries like Tonga ...

Last October I argued that Vanuatu was facing an economic emergency. Since then, the world has become far more dangerous and uncertain, while Vanuatu was struck by the most damaging earthquake in its ...