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How do you explain the current boom in backpacker visa numbers in Australia? @StephenRHowes & Finn Clarke from @devpolicy look at the biggest increase in visas since the first boom in 2012-13. Look out for their second blog on necessary reform tomorrow.
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Jun 16
DYK❓This week's Saturday Extra was a special report by the Kaintiba Research Team.
Our two-blog series, "The road into no-man's land" presents images, videos and testimonies exploring service delivery in Anga's interior - a remote region of PNG.
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Jun 16
“The private security industry plays a large and relatively under-examined role enabling projects to proceed throughout the region, particularly in a place like PNG,” says Gordon Peake in a review of Christopher Whitcomb’s book Anonymous Male.
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Jun 15
ICYMI 📢 AAC2026 call for papers now open! 📰Subscribe for reminders of 21 Aug deadline
Join us 2-4 Dec for 2026 Australasian AID Conference with @Asia_Foundation at @ANUCrawford in Canberra.
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Jun 15
🚨Registration open!🚨
Join us as Bobby Kunda and Kingtau Mambon presents “Informality, Incidence and Pass-through of PNG’s VAT Exemptions"
⏰3 July, 12.30-1.30pm PGT / AEST
📍In person @CrawfordSeminar7 or #UPNG or Zoom
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Jun 14
"Remittances are difficult to measure," says @RyanBEdwards from @Devpolicy. "What we do know is that just over 40% of PALM worker income is spent in Australia while the worker is working and [remainder is] remittances and savings."
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Jun 13
Today's Saturday Extra is a special report by the Kaintiba Research Team.
Our two-blog series, "The road into no-man's land" presents images, videos and testimonies which explores service delivery in Anga's interior - a remote region of PNG.
Visit devpolicy.org
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Jun 12
AAC2026 call for papers now open! 📢 Submit an abstract, panel or launch by 21 August
Join us from 2-4 December for the 2026 Australasian AID Conference at ANU's Crawford School in Canberra.
Details: crawford.anu.edu.au/devpolic…
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Jun 11
"There has been little sustained public reflection within Kiribati itself about why we continue to carry a name rooted in colonial cartography and imperial administration rather than ... Tungaru," says Amota Ataneka.
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Jun 11
We are pleased to announce that the ANU-UPNG partnership has been renewed for another 4 years.
It will ensure students like Rainford Gulas will have the opportunity to expand their horizons through activities such as the ANU-UPNG Summer School.
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Jun 11
🚨Registration open!🚨
Join us as Bobby Kunda and Kingtau Mambon presents “Informality, Incidence and Pass-through of PNG’s VAT Exemptions"
⏰3 July, 12.30-1.30pm PGT / AEST
📍In person @CrawfordSeminar7 or #UPNG or Zoom
📝 Register: events.devpolicy.org/2026070…
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Jun 10
"Development financing [in the Pacific] remains dispersed across numerous donor-funded projects, typically delivered as individual initiatives," says Axel Melkonian. "Investments are implemented at a scale too limited to displace diesel generation."
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Jun 10
AAC2026 speaker announcement 🔊 🇮🇩 Economist Sri Mulyani Indrawati to present Mitchell Oration @ ANU
Join us from 2-4 December for the 2026 Australasian AID Conference at @ANUCrawford in Canberra.
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Jun 9
“Artificial intelligence is often discussed as something that will reshape higher education in the future,” says Raymond Kamb John and @NematBizhan. “But for many students [at the University of Papua New Guinea], that future has already arrived.” #UPNG
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Jun 8
“For the dev sector, building the civic skills required to come to terms with the current reality, moving past disorientation, conferences & exhaustion & discerning what might be done in response is an urgent task,” says Chris Roche from @SocialChangeLTU.
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Jun 7
“Digicel prices fluctuated [in 2025] but the other two providers kept their data bundle prices steady,” says @AHAWatson, Hafford Norea, Loretta Dilu & Jonathan Zureo.“Competitive pressure did not intensify in 2025.” #ANU #UPNG #PNGNRI #DivineWord
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Jun 5
“Vanuatu’s prevalence of physical or sexual violence against women by husbands and partners has fallen by nine percentage points over the last 15 years,” say Tatavola Matas, Sharon Frank and Juliet Hunt from the Vanuatu Women’s Centre.
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Jun 5
🚨Last Chance!🚨
Join us as Issabelle Vilau presents “Voters’ participation in PNG: Understanding the nature of women’s participation"
⏰5 June, 12.30-1.30pm PGT / AEST
📍In person @CrawfordSeminar7 or #UPNG or Zoom
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