At the start of December last year, I released the results of my first survey of Papua New Guinean experiences with the Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV). 33 of those who were successful in last year’s ...

Nervous anticipation about new teachers, subjects and challenges to come. Checking how much growing has happened over the summer, and whether shoes and uniforms are still OK. Right around Australia ...

Income taxation is a hot and very sensitive topic in Papua New Guinea. Last January’s Port Moresby riots were provoked by the police going on strike after a payroll ...

PNG’s income tax schedule has been changed 17 times since independence. These changes can be summarised as follows: the number of rates has been reduced by two-thirds; the maximum rate has fallen ...

2025 will mark the thirtieth year in which I have been scribbling about governance. In this time, I have been privileged to think and write about governance for the United Kingdom’s former Department ...

Once upon a time governance was not a thing in development. It was only about thirty years ago that the ideas of a few academic scribblers began to filter into the development discourse and challenge ...

In the first part of this two-part series, we argued that while growing concerns with crime and lawlessness have led the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) and other leaders to call for tougher ...

In January 2025, Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape directed that all PNG citizens be registered with a PNG National Identity (NID) by 16 September 2025 to coincide with the country’s 50th ...

Australians hold many mistaken beliefs about immigration, which might explain some negative attitudes, say Alyssa Leng, Ryan ...

In previous blogs in this series, we’ve shown that while people in Australia are generally happy with current immigration policy settings toward the Pacific (part 1), there is less support for the ...