NEWS & EVENTS

On a number of levels I find the “valuing” of work in this way obscene. We don’t value, and therefore remunerate, community and family care for children, differently abled, older people, and many others in our community, or indeed in PNG, in a...

On Sunday night, SBS’s Dateline ran a feature story about PNG LNG, Papua New Guinea’s $16.6 billion liquefied natural gas development project, the biggest development project in the history of the Pacific region. ExxonMobil, with its Aussie partners Oil...

With the Millennium Development Goals slipping from the grasp of donor countries and fragile states, a big effort is being made to bring together all parties involved so they can thrash out why billions of dollars in aid money hasn’t yielded the expected...

Australia's foreign aid budget is up from $3.8 billion to $4.3 billion next year.Foreign Minister Stephen Smith says the change to a new international standard for calculating national income will deliver $2-3 billion more to aid in coming years, and that is on track...

Presenter: Jemima Garrett Speakers: Charles Toksana, a chief from West Kwaio, Malatia Province; Richard Irosaea, Premier of Malaita Province: Fred Fono, caretaker Deputy Prime Minister of Solomon IslandsGARRETT: Solomon Islands commercial forests are almost logged out...

Click here to download In Defence of Melanesian Customary LandClick here to listen to Radio Australia interview with co-editor Tim Anderson

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said aid from major industrialised nations is expected to shrink  from 2009 levels and miss an overall target.It forecast that official development assistance would come to only $US108 billion ($A116.3...

Parliamentary secretary for international development assistance Bob McMullan told the advisory group on climate change financing in London, convened by United Nations general secretary Ban Ki-moon, that carbon markets could provide the right economic incentives to...

Presenter: Kate McPherson & Sam SekeSpeakers: Joel Simo, Director of the Land Desk at the Vanuatu Cultural Centre in Port Vila; Steven Sukot, Campaigns Manager for the Bismarck Ramu Group, PNG; Gary Lee, Co-Director of Aid/WatchMCPHERSON: Traditional land owners...

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) was set up by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to involve companies in creating more sustainable ways of producing palm oil. However environmental experts believe that not only is the RSPO ineffective, it has become a way to...

Speakers:Joel Simo is the Director of the Land Desk at the Vanuatu Cultural Centre in Port Vila, Vanuatu. Joel has published numerous works on Land in Vanuatu and has extensive experience leading grassroots community education and organising at a national level. He...

The Secretariat of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIFS) is on damage control mode following accusations of disloyalty and being non-transparent in its dealings with countries it was created to serve.The accusations were contained in a three-page letter written by the...

Peter Kelly, an engineer from Brisbane, is receiving $433,000 tax-free a year to supervise the maintenance of the 73km of paved roads, 1303 km of gravel roads and 400km of earth roads in the tropical tourist haven of Vanuatu.Both are earning substantially more than...

The panel, to be led by Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Ethiopian counterpart Meles Zenawi, aimed ''to mobilise the resources for climate change pledged at the recent climate change conference in Copenhagen'', Mr Ban said.He said the group, evenly...