Vanuatu: The view from the top of the Happy Planet Index
JAMIE TANGUAY | Vanuatu has recently ranked second in the Happy Planet Index (HPI)—a measure of efficiency in delivering long and happy lives… Read More
Pillar 2: Livelihoods and culture
Land, culture, livelihood: What Indigenous people stand to lose from climate ‘solutions’
ROB HALES, ROWAN FOLEY, TIM CADMAN AND TONI HAY | In the first major deal of the Glasgow climate summit, more than 100… Read More
One region, one family, one report: Activating trade and investment between Australia and the Pacific islands region
CAITLIN BYRNE AND TESS NEWTON CAIN | Pacific island nations, like many others in the Asia Pacific, face a long and challenging… Read More
Pacific NCDs and COVID-19
STEVE POLLARD | This should be the time to recall the value of human health, but how is it really valued, and can the… Read More
Meet the Mackay South Sea Islander Communities
The city of Mackay, located on the east coast of Australia, is situated 930km north of Brisbane and marks the beginning of North Queensland. Known… Read More
How are Pacific businesses really doing?
TESS NEWTON CAIN | For the first of our Pacific Outlook webinars of 2021, the Pacific Hub partnered with Pacific Trade Invest (PTI)… Read More
Papua New Guineans farewell the Grand Chief in Brisbane
TESS NEWTON CAIN | In the heart of Brisbane, the PNG community came together to mark the passing of the Grand Chief,… Read More
Economic informality in Pacific island countries
Anyone who has travelled to Southeast Asia knows that cities such as Jakarta and Bangkok display a rich variety of ‘informal’ economic activities. Pedestrians often… Read More
How are businesses in the Pacific really doing?
The COVID-19 global pandemic and accompanying economic crisis continues to create compounded challenges for the Pacific private sector. With closed international borders, interrupted trade routes… Read More
Cairns charts course for major Pacific hub status
Shipyards in the port city of Cairns in far-north Queensland are set to boom, with hundreds of millions of dollars projected to be spent on… Read More
