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For the first time ever, the Brumbies are coming to Fiji 🏉 Be at HFC Bank Stadium on Sat, Feb 15 as we kick off Super Rugby season with a bang! 🎟 Tickets from just FJ$25 - get yours now.

Congratulations to Anna Kapil and David Poka who recently graduated from the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy with a Master of International and Development Economics. devpolicy.org is proud to have supported Anna and David through the PNG and Pacific Greg Taylor scholarship program.

The US props up the Kagame regime in Rwanda, which is actively destabilizing the DRC to prevent sovereignty over critical minerals that US tech and military firms require, and which the US wants to keep cheap and available for exploitation. This should be a bigger story.

ICYMI 🔊2025 Pacific Update call for papers now open! ➡️crawford.anu.edu.au/devpolicy/2025…

Allowing Samoans overseas to cast their votes through postal ballots is part of the amendments to the Electoral Act which is expected to be tabled in Parliament on Tuesday. buff.ly/4kgzKin

The vote of no confidence to unseat Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mataafa and her cabinet failed when the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday voted with 34 members opposing the motion and 15 for it. buff.ly/43aOfOt

It's fascinating how, in the 1950s, US officials acknowledged - on the record - that socialism in the global South was a more effective development model than capitalism. Their response was to impose crushing sanctions on *every single* socialist country, to deny them access to

I joined Upstream podcast to talk about China, the Chinese revolution, climate policy, unequal exchange, and the current increase in imperialist warmongering. Free access here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unl…

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“While Trump pulls the US out of the Pacific … he may reassert US influence through seabed minerals companies working in the Area or Pacific EEZs,” say Nicholas Bainton & Philippa Louey from ANU. “Australia needs to think carefully about this dilemma.” devpolicy.org/can-pacific-na…

Shashi Tharoor exposed Pakistan 's mastery in Denial and Lies on the global front .

📅Friday 30 May: mark your diary! Call for 2025 PNG Update papers close Theme - Papua New Guinea at 50: past, present and future 21-22 August at UPNG Waigani campus ➡️ crawford.anu.edu.au/devpolicy/2025… ANU Crawford School of Public Policy

#2025PacificUpdate Day 1 starts at Laucala Campus, USP, Suva. The livestream URL for Pacific Update is: usp.ac.fj/live

Day 2 #2025PacificUpdate begins at USP's ICT Centre, Laucala Campus, Suva with Tovi Amona of Belisi PNG delivering her paper titled PNG public-private partnership responding to gender based violence in PNG

I wonder what we would see on the 7 pm ABC News if our #journalists could report from #Iran and #Gaza. We are seeing a lot of footage of the effects of the bombing in Israel. Not so much in the other places.

The US attack on Iran was unprovoked and illegal, done in cooperation with a regime that is currently perpetrating a genocide, whose leader is wanted by the International Criminal Court. That is the world we are in.

Spoke with President of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian. We discussed in detail about the current situation. Expressed deep concern at the recent escalations. Reiterated our call for immediate de-escalation, dialogue and diplomacy as the way forward and for early restoration of regional

The US-brokered "peace deal" between the DRC and Rwanda is actually wild. The US is getting access to $2 trillion worth of DRC minerals in exchange for forcing the withdrawal of Rwandan-backed M23 militias. That's one-tenth of the DRC's total mineral wealth, more than any

BREAKING: This new report by the UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt identifies the main corporations that are profiting from occupation and genocide in Palestine. The objective is to hold these firms and their executives accountable through legal proceedings in every