Commentary

Analysis and opinion from our staff, associates and contributing experts. The views expressed in these articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Pacific Institute of Public Policy. Do you feel you have something to add to the conversation? Write for us.

Do Pacific islands need to ‘walk the talk’ on climate?

29 January, 2015

Giff Johnson

Do Pacific islands need to ‘walk the talk’ on climate?

Small island states that contribute little to the carbon problem globally need to change their ways as they are demanding of big nations. The apparent conflict between profiting from the oil company industry and demanding it be phased down must be addressed.

20 January, 2015

Derek Brien

Transforming global development

Negotiations on what should succeed the Millennium Development Goals resumed in New York this week. Negotiations are well under way to decide what development goals will succeed the MDGs, and this time there has been much broader input.

Behind the elusive mythmaking over Fiji, West Papua

15 December, 2014

David Robie

Behind the elusive mythmaking over Fiji, West Papua

On the eve of a vital meeting in Port Vila planning a more unified stance among disparate Melanesian solidarity groups in December 2014, the issue of Papua and Indonesian human rights violations was also the topic of a conference almost 2200 km away in New Zealand.

West Papuans unite to form new umbrella group

10 December, 2014

Ben Bohane

West Papuans unite to form new umbrella group

In a gathering of West Papuan leaders in Vanuatu, the different factions of the independence movement united in one group and one struggle under the new body called the United Liberation Movement for West Papua.

8 December, 2014

Mark Evans

PNG’s 2015 budget – first impressions

Papua New Guinea must get its public finances back on track if the country is to avoid macroeconomic instability and wasted resource revenues. Presenting agreeable numbers is not enough; there must be sufficient political buy-in to deliver these plans.

The information age collides with older generation thinking

3 December, 2014

Giff Johnson

The information age collides with older generation thinking

The New Zealand media is more interested in ISIL activities in Syria and Iraq than the horrendous human rights violations happening right under their noses in their own Pacific “front yard, such as in Fiji and West Papua, argues David Robie.

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