Facebook shutdown, tenuously linked to terrorism, raises serious constitutional, goverance and human rights issues, say Kabuni, Turia and Tarai.

For more than 1,200 days, Afghan girls have been banned from attending school beyond Year 6. While boys started the new school year at secondary schools across Afghanistan on 22 March, there are still ...

Australia’s foreign aid (Official Development Assistance or ODA) for 2025-26 is budgeted at $5.097 billion, a 2.7% increase over the 2024-25 aid budget of $4.961 billion. With inflation projected at 3 ...

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University.

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University.

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University.

Fred Fisk (1917-2009) was an Australian who stumbled into the emerging field of “development” during service as a colonial official in British Malaya. This was after the Second World War, with ...

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University.

The need for an affordable, clean, safe and efficient public transport system in Port Moresby is both pressing and widely recognised among residents. While numerous studies and reports have examined ...

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University.