Schools and Centres Pages

2025

May

What does Labor's emphatic election win mean for the Pacific? Pacific Beat, comments Stephen Howes - 5 May 2025

April

Election 2025: Agriculture visa pledge raises exploitation, diplomatic warnings, The Australian, by Rhiannon Down, comments Stephen Howes - 30 April 2025

Australian data shows Pacific migrants live in lower income areas, Pacific Beat, interview Toan Nguyen - 14 April 2025

All Pacific states except Niue and Palau, have been targeted by US tariff increases, Pacific Beat, interview Stephen Howes - 7 April 2025

“Aligning” aid: Which interests and whose interests? The Interpreter, article by Cameron Hill and Nicola Nixon (The Asia Foundation) - 4 April 2025
 

March

Liberal backbenchers urge Coalition not to raid foreign aid budget to pay for rumoured $15bn defence boost, The Guardian - 25 March 2025

Trump policy pivots rattle aid-reliant Pacific ally Palau, Nikkei Asia, comments Terence Wood - 22 March 2025

Fears Pacific climate change "not on the agenda" for US aid funding, Climate Calling podcast, comments Cameron Hill - 22 March 2025

Europe compounding Trump aid vandalism – Australia must take a different path, The Interpreter, research findings Cameron Hill and Robin Davies - 21 March 2025

Australia in discussions to avoid ‘devastating consequences’ of US aid cuts for Pacific nations, The Guardian, comments Cameron Hill - 20 March 2025

Foreign aid will continue but in what form it's hard to say, Radio New Zealand, comments Robin Davies - 19 March 2025

Trump killed America’s aid program. It’s catching on, Australian Financial Review, comments Robin Davies - 14 March 2025

Securing Australia's new Pacific Engagement Visa costly, slow and 'stressful', applicants say, ABC News, Pacific Beat and ABC TV, interview Natasha Turia - 3 March 2025


February

Cheques and (power) balances reshape aid in a post-liberal world, Eureka Street, comments Cameron Hill - 26 February 2025

Aussie migration misperceptions can be changed, The Canberra Times, comments Alyssa Leng - 5 February 2025

Australians want less migration but oppose cutting international student numbers, study finds, The Guardian, comments Alyssa Leng - 5 February 2025

Survey finds Australians happy with current level of Pacific migration, Pacific Beat, interview Alyssa Leng - 5 February 2025

The US was cleaning up its deadly mess in Cambodia – then came Trump’s call, Sydney Morning Herald, by Zach Hope, comments Cameron Hill - 10 February 2025

Why Trump and Elon Musk want to shut down the world's largest humanitarian aid donor, SBS Dateline, by Bermet Talant, comments Cameron Hill - 9 February 2025

Survey finds Australians happy with current level of Pacific migration, Pacific Beat interview, guest Alyssa Leng - 6 February 2025

Australians want less migration but oppose cutting international student numbers, study finds, The Guardian, by Josh Nicholas, comments Alyssa Leng - 5 February 2025

Australia grants $570 million dollar loan to PNG, Pacific Beat interview, guest Stephen Howes - 5 February 2025

Pacific aid experts concerned over moves to shut down USAID, Radio New Zealand Midday Report, interview Charlotte Cook, guest Terence Wood - 4 February 2025


January

How will Trump's US aid freeze affect the Pacific? Radio New Zealand, interview by Don Wiseman, guest Cameron Hill - 30 January 2025

Winston Peters Rejects Kiribati's Excuse As Hipkins Urges Constructive Diplomacy, Radio New Zealand, by Caleb Fotheringham, comments Terence Wood - 28 January 2025

Govt reviewing development programme with Kiribati, Radio New Zealand Midday Report, interview by Charlotte Cook, guest Terence Wood - 28 January 2025

Once firm friends, Afghanistan and Pakistan are now at each other's throats. Here's why, ABC News, by Najma Sambul, comments Nematullah Bizhan - 2 January 2025

2024

How Solomon Islands’ Donor-Funded Water Plant Became a Costly Failure, Organized Crime and Corruption Report Project, by Charley Piringi, Ofani Eremae, Ronald Toito’ona and Dan McGarry, comments Terence Wood - 22 December 2024

PNG academic calls for GST cut to also apply to medicines, Radio New Zealand Pacific Waves, interview by Don Wiseman, comments Andrew Anton Mako - 13 December 2024

How can Australia’s turn to economic statecraft help the poor? The Intel, comments Ryan Edwards - 12 December 2024

US election. So what for development? The Intel, comments Cameron Hill - 7 November 2024

Call for Papua New Guinea to cut GST on basic food items, Radio New Zealand, by Don Wiseman, comments Andrew Anton Mako - 31 October

One in 10 Pacific farm workers seeking protection visas, The Weekly Times, by Alexandra Laskie, comments Stephen Howes - 9 October 2024

The number in the federal budget most Australians get wrong, The Australian, comments Stephen Howes - 15 September 2024

The Pacific Engagement Visa is something Australia 'can offer that China can't’ and ‘is here to stay’, Radio New Zealand, by Don Wiseman, interview Stephen Howes - 6 September 2024

ANU researchers investigate sexual health problems among Pacific workers, ABC Pacific Beat, comments Lindy Kanan - 5 September 2024

A rare aid success story has brought riches to a hardscrabble corner of the Pacific. Will it last? The Conversation, by Terence Wood and Gordon Peake - 8 August 2024

Record number of Fijians heading overseas, but researchers say exodus could be temporary, ABC Pacific Beat, interview Huiyuan Liu - 31 July 2024

Fiji now the largest supplier of PALM workers, ABC Pacific Beat, comment Stephen Howes - 24 July 2024

Defence to compensate victims of unlawful Afghanistan killings, ABC News, comment Nemat Bizhan - 20 July 2024

Defence Department compensation plan for Afghan killings, The Australian, by Rhiannon Down, comment Nemat Bizhan - 19 July 2024

Falepili Union: 'Australia is providing a type of citizenship to Tuvaluans' - academic, Radio New Zealand, by Don Wiseman, comments Stephen Howes - 10 July 2024

Seasonal worker advocates complain of unfair remittance fees, ABC Pacific Beat, comments Ryan Edwards - 9 July 2024

NZ employers call for changes to seasonal work scheme, Radio New Zealand, comments Charlotte Bedford - 13 June 2024

Australia opens Pacific Engagement Visa to 3,000 Pacific Islanders, Pacific Beat, comments Stephen Howes - 3 June 2024

Higher pay and standards of living attract Pacific migrants to Australia, Pacific Beat, comments Natasha Turia - 3 June 2024

Anger in PNG over landslide response, SBS In Depth podcast, comments Andrew Anton Mako - 31 May 2024

The migration debate is heating up, but will the war of words lead to action? ABC News, reporter Tom Crowley, comments Ryan Edwards - 25 May 2024

Pacific gets ‘record’ share of Australia’s static foreign aid budget, Benar News, comments Stephen Howes - 15 May 2024

Q and A: ANU's Stephen Howes on Australia's Pacific Engagement Visa quotas, Radio New Zealand, interview Stephen Howes - 7 May 2024

What you should know about Australia's new Pacific Engagement Visa, ABC Pacific Beat, comments Stephen Howes - 2 May 2024

Australian recruiters sound alarm as demand for Pacific seasonal workers plummets, ABC Pacific Beat, comments Richard Curtain - 1 May 2024

Farmer demand for Pacific Islander seasonal workers is falling — and it could be backpackers taking their place, ABC News, comments Richard Curtain - 1 May 2024

Pacific Island nations are moving to gain control over their labour drains, after seasonal worker numbers explode, ABC News, by Doug Dingwall, comments Stephen Howes - 27 April 2024

Solomon Islands prepares for ‘most important election since independence’, The Wire, comments Terence Wood - 17 April 2024

Australia criticised over declining foreign aid investments, SBS In Depth podcast, comments Cameron Hill - 17 May 2024

China-Taiwan debates unlikely to sway Solomon Islands voters, Pacific Beat, comments Terence Wood - 27 March 2024

Australia accused of using foreign aid to build security relationships rather than trying to solve poverty, The West Australian, comments Stephen Howes - 25 March 2024

Global democracy plummets amid conflict and polarisation, SBS News, comments Grant Walton - 21 March 2024

Polygamy spreading in Papua New Guinea, Pacific Beat, comments Kingtau Mambon - 7 February 2024

Long term plan needed for underlying Papua New Guinea problems, Radio New Zealand, comments Andrew Anton Mako - 27 January 2024

Data reveals impact of Australia's aid on gender equality in the Pacific, Pacific Beat, comments Terence Wood - 3 January 2024

2023

Australia work a big earner for the Pacific, The Canberra Times, by Adrian Rollins, interview Ryan Edwards - 23 November 2023

Australia’s immigration spike not necessarily driving up housing prices, experts say, by Josh Nicholas, comment Ryan Edwards - 12 December 2023

PNG and the IMF, The Money with Richard Aedy, interview Stephen Howes - 7 December 2023

Why Albanese’s ‘pretty massive’ Pacific pact will irk Beijing, The Sydney Morning Herald, by Peter Hartcher, comment Stephen Howes - 11 November 2023

Could migration be Canberra’s trump card in the Pacific? Radio New Zealand, by Koroi Hawkins, interview Stephen Howes - 2 November 2023

Look at the evidence: Cutting immigration would be a mistake for Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald, editorial, Steven Hamilton and Ryan Edwards - 1 November 2023

Parliament clears path for Pacific Visa and opens the door to 3,000 annual immigrants, ABC News, Stephen Dziedzic and Dubravka Voloder, comment Stephen Howes - 19 October 2023

Australia's new development policy 'a missed opportunity', Pacific Waves, comment Cameron Hill - 6 September 2023

No, the Australian government is not sending money to Hamas, AAP Factcheck, by Meghan Williams, comment Cameron Hill - 18 October 2023

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