Fred Fisk has a good claim to be regarded as the Australian National University’s first development economist, argues John Conroy in a new book.

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

Australia’s foreign aid (Official Development Assistance or ODA) for 2025-26 is budgeted at $5.097 billion, a 2.7% increase ...

The 2025-26 federal budget will see Australian Official Development Assistance (ODA) remain largely steady in real terms at an estimated $5.097 billion in the coming financial year, or 0.18% of Gross ...

The continuing prohibition on girls’ education beyond Year 6 imposes a profound burden on Afghan society and the economy, ...

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World War II plunged Fred Fisk into the emerging field of ‘development’ in colonial Malaya. Feeling inadequate to the task, he looked to the 1950s literature – Amar Narain Agarwala, Sampat Pal Singh, ...

Vanuatu’s new coalition government recently announced a proposed electoral reform to restrict political candidacy to indigenous and third-generation naturalised citizens. Prime Minister Jotham Napat’s ...

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 ...