Devpolicy Talks
315 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★ - 1 ratingDevpolicy Talks brings you interviews, event recordings and more in-depth documentary features relating to the topics we research at the Development Policy Centre. The Centre, part of the Australian National University’s Crawford School of Public Policy, works on Australian aid, development in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific, and regional and global development issues. It is host to the Devpolicy Blog (devpolicy.org) and a range of public events including the annual PNG Update, Pacific Update and Australasian Aid and International Development Conference.
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Australia's role in the global fight against TB: an interview with Eric Goosby
July 12, 2017 00:43 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBIn global health circles, Dr Eric Goosby’s reputation precedes him. A physician by training, he has been a leader in the development and implementation of HIV/AIDS policy for 30 years and is perhaps best known for his role as the US Global AIDS Coordinator (2009-2013). In 2015, Dr Goosby accepted an appointment as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Tuberculosis (TB), and it was in this capacity that he visited Canberra in late May 2017, during which Camilla Burkot interviewed him at...
My Father, My country - Q & A session of documentary screening with Dame Meg Taylor
June 26, 2017 22:54 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBIn 1938 three Australian patrol officers – Jim Taylor, John Black and Pat Walsh – set off on an epic journey into the highlands of Papua New Guinea. Their purpose: to make contact with highland tribes who until then, had no contact with the outside world, and to explain to them that their lives were about to undergo incredible change. Fifty years later, Jim’s daughter Meg retraced her father’s steps and met people who remembered the day the patrol arrived. Meg’s observations are combined wi...
Drought and famine relief in Papua New Guinea, 2015-2016
June 13, 2017 01:32 - 1 hour - 96.1 MBPNG was severely impacted by the 2015-16 El Niño drought and, at some very high altitude locations, a series of destructive frosts. The drought and frosts impacted many rural villagers between mid-2015 and late 2016, with some people still severely impacted in early 2017. Impacts included: widespread shortages of drinking water; shortages of subsistence food in many places; negative effect on villagers’ health; partial or complete closure of schools; and the Fly River not being suitable for ...
Why forests? Why now? The science, economics, and politics of tropical forests and climate change
May 18, 2017 04:11 - 1 hour - 84.1 MBTropical forests are an undervalued asset in meeting the greatest global challenges of our time—averting climate change and promoting sustainable development. Despite their importance, tropical forests and their ecosystems are being destroyed at a high and even increasing rate in most forest-rich countries. The good news is that the science, economics, and politics are aligned to support a major international effort to reverse tropical deforestation. Why Forests? Why Now? a new book by Fran...
2017 aid budget breakfast
May 12, 2017 04:14 - 1 hour - 89.1 MBThis year is the first after three years of cuts in which the aid budget is slated to increase – by $84 million. While only enough to keep the aid budget growing with inflation, how will this new money be spent? Health funding has been almost halved in real terms over the last four years. Will the government release information on its long-awaited health security initiative? At this year’s aid budget breakfast, we will also review the 2016 Performance of Australian Aid report and the 2015-16...
Coping with high risk and uncertainty in aid policy design and practice - Adam Fforde
April 28, 2017 00:07 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MBIn this talk Professor Fforde will discuss how risk and uncertainty are best coped with in development practice. In doing this, he will examine the theories of change that underpin aid practitioners’ use of tools such as the logical framework approach. He will contend that in many situations we should explore methods of devising policy and organising practice that formally assume context is unpredictable and unsuited to tools like the logical framework approach. He will argue that aid work c...
Complexity in governments and markets - Vito Tanzi
April 23, 2017 23:28 - 1 hour - 87.1 MBCo-hosted by the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute and the Development Policy Centre. As Governments expanded their activities over the years, pushing spending from around 10 per cent of GDP at the beginning of the last century to the current levels of 30 to 50 per cent of GDP, while increasing intervention through regulations, they tended to lose much of their ability to monitor well what they did. This led to problems of corruption, inefficiency, rent seeking, cronyism, and generally less...
Papua New Guinea after the resource boom
April 12, 2017 23:46 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBThis talk provides a survey of recent economic developments in Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) since the end of the resource boom in 2014. The specific focus of the discussion will be on the country’s exchange rate policy. Theory suggests that the real exchange rate (RER) should depreciate following the observed fall in commodity prices. In practice, however, the imposition of foreign exchange controls has led to a large backlog in foreign currency orders suggesting that the kina is significantly o...
Democracy in Africa: past, present and future
April 12, 2017 23:38 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBAfrica has a rich history; old and diverse cultures; and abundant and varied natural resources. Yet, a large majority of Africans remain poor, disenfranchised and oppressed. For five and half centuries, the trajectory of Africa’s autonomous development was distorted by the intervention of nascent Europe: the slave trade, the colonial venture and the Cold War. A legacy of the colonial system, the prototype independent African state has failed to deliver freedom, democracy and prosperity, givi...
Australian aid evaluations: new aid evaluation policy, Indonesia roads and PNG health
April 12, 2017 00:36 - 2 hours - 151 MBIn this podcast, you'll hear a discussion forum, jointly organised by the Development Policy Centre and the Office of Development Effectiveness (ODE), which is the latest in a series on the evaluation of Australian aid. The event focuses on the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's (DFAT)new aid evaluation policy and two recent evaluations. Recently, DFAT has overhauled its approach to evaluation, with a new Aid Evaluation Policy and, for the first time, an Annual Aid Evaluation Plan -...
Robin Davies interviews Inge Kaul Pt 2
April 07, 2017 01:29 - 1 hour - 32.2 MBRobin Davies, Associate Director of the Development Policy Centre, interviews German economist Inge Kaul, a leading thinker on global public goods. This interview forms the basis for a blog post (https://exit.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdevpolicy.org%2Fpublic-enemies-global-public-goods-in-aid-policy-narratives-20170407%2F and Discussion Paper (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2941164) on the issue of aid policy and global public goods. This is part 2 of the interview, you can fi...
Robin Davies interviews Inge Kaul Pt 1
April 07, 2017 00:26 - 56 minutes - 25.8 MBRobin Davies, Associate Director of the Development Policy Centre, interviews German economist Inge Kaul, a leading thinker on global public goods. This interview forms the basis for a blog post (http://devpolicy.org/public-enemies-global-public-goods-in-aid-policy-narratives-20170407/) and Discussion Paper (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2941164) on the issue of aid policy and global public goods. Read and subscribe to our daily blogs at devpolicy.org. Learn more abou...
Understanding how change happens - Duncan Green
April 06, 2017 00:14 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBHuman society is full of would-be ‘change agents’. A restless mix of campaigners, lobbyists, and officials, both individuals and organisations, are set on transforming the world. They want to improve public services, reform laws and regulations, guarantee human rights, get a fairer deal for those on the sharp end, achieve greater recognition for any number of issues, or simply be treated with respect. Scholarly discussions of change are fragmented with few conversations crossing disciplina...
European Union development policy - Stefano Manservisi
March 28, 2017 23:36 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBDevelopment aid from donor countries amounts to more than US $130 billion annually. More than half of that amount comes from European Union nations. However, sustainable development cannot be achieved through aid alone. The United Nations’ 2030 Agenda and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development have underlined the importance of domestic resource mobilisation and investments – both public and private – for sustainable social, environmental, and economic development efforts ...
World Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law
March 07, 2017 00:29 - 1 hour - 85.9 MBSpeakers: James Brumby, The World Bank; Luis Felipe Lopez Calva, The World Bank; Natasha Smith, DFAT; Dr Helen Szoke, Oxfam Australia; and Professor Veronica Taylor, ANU. The Oceania launch of the World Development Report 2017, including a presentation of the report and a panel discussion, was held on February 14 as a side event to the 2017 Australasian Aid Conference The World Development Report 2017 on Governance and the Law explores how policies for security, growth and equity can effec...
AAC 2017 Opening Address: The Hon Julie Bishop MP
March 06, 2017 09:39 - 27 minutes - 12.5 MBForeign Minister The Hon Julie Bishop MP delivered the opening address at the 2017 Australasian Aid Conference on February 15, held at Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. In the address, Minister Bishop announced several new initiatives and spoke of the strategic importance of the aid program. Read and subscribe to our daily blogs at devpolicy.org. Learn more about our research and join our public events at devpolicy.anu.edu.au. Follow us on Twitter, Face...
The humanitarian system in crisis - AAC 2017
February 28, 2017 03:48 - 1 hour - 84.1 MBPlenary session, 2017 Australasian Aid Conference Chair: Stephen Howes, ANU Speakers: Robin Davies, ANU Adam Kamradt-Scott, University of Sydney Phoebe Wynn-Pope, Australian Red Cross Paul McPhun, Medecins Sans Frontieres Australia Jamie Isbister, DFAT The humanitarian aid system is in crisis. It’s a crisis of identity, financing and conduct. Agencies set up to deal with the immediate impacts of traumatic events find themselves have become de facto providers of long-term development a...
3MAP: The three-minute aid pitch - AAC 2017
February 27, 2017 06:26 - 51 minutes - 47 MBPlenary session, 2017 Australasian Aid Conference Chair: Joel Negin What does Australian aid need more of, or less of? What are its ailments and what shape its cures? This panel presents the best, the most original, the most transformational, the most innovative ideas to get more bang from the 4 billion dollar buck that is the Australian aid program. Following the 3-Minute-Thesis format, rival advocates will battle it out for your vote. For something quick and different, listen to 3MA...
Asian approaches to engaging the private sector in development cooperation - AAC2017
February 26, 2017 10:33 - 1 hour - 77.6 MBPlenary session, 2017 Australasian Aid Conference Speakers: Guo Peiyuan, General Manager, SynTao; Jeon Hyunjin, Manager, Corporate Social Responsibility Team, LG Electronics HQ; Simon Cramp, Director of Private Sector Development, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Prabodh Saxena, Principal Secretary, Government of Himachal Pradesh. Chaired by Anthea Mulakala of The Asia Foundation. Involving the private sector in development cooperation is a priority today not only for many Western ...
Now for the hard part: strategies for enhancing state capability for implementation - AAC2017
February 26, 2017 09:15 - 1 hour - 75 MBKeynote address, 2017 Australasian Aid Conference, ANU Speaker: Michael Woolcock, Lead Social Development Specialist, World Bank and Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard University Despite what today’s headlines might convey, life for most people in most developing countries has never been better. This should be rightly celebrated, but improving basic levels of human welfare from a low base was the relatively ‘easy’ part. To consolidate and expand these achievements, the key development chal...
The state of play on aid transparency: in discussion with Publish What You Fund
January 19, 2017 09:58 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBRobin Davies interviews Publish What You Fund’s London-based CEO, Rupert Simons and Elise Dufief, the organisation’s Research and Monitoring Manager, who is in the process of reviewing the methodology used for the Aid Transparency Index, to discuss the current issues in aid transparency. Read and subscribe to our daily blogs at devpolicy.org. Learn more about our research and join our public events at devpolicy.anu.edu.au. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram for latest ...
Economic diversification and tax reform in Papua New Guinea - Sir Nagora Bogan Podcast
January 11, 2017 23:44 - 48 minutes - 44 MBThe independent Tax Review Committee (TRC) established by the Government of PNG recently completed a comprehensive review of the country’s tax system involving extensive and transparent stakeholder consultation over the course of two years. This culminated in two volumes of reports (inclusive of significant economic and tax reform recommendations) which were formally presented to the PNG Government in November, 2015. The final report highlighted the high risks of PNG’s overdependence on the...
Robin Davies interviews Bill Armstrong
December 12, 2016 00:17 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBFor generations of young Australians with a passion for social justice, volunteering in developing or indigenous communities has been a rite of passage. Bill Armstrong has been deeply involved in this movement since the 1960s, working with organisations such as the Overseas Service Bureau (now Australian Volunteers International), and Indigenous Community Volunteers. Robin Davies discussed his work in an interview for our Aid Profiles series. View the story here: http://devpolicy.org/aidpro...
Advocating for women in Porgera: an interview with Everlyne Sap
December 08, 2016 00:02 - 46 minutes - 42.1 MBIt is well known that gender-based and sexual violence are major problems facing Papua New Guinea. What is less widely recognized are the grassroots efforts underway to combat these problems, and the individuals leading those efforts. Everlyne Sap is one of those individuals. She is a gender advocate and chairperson of the Family and Sexual Violence Steering Committee of the Restorative Justice Initiative Association (RJIA) at Porgera in Enga Province, PNG. Camilla Burkot interviewed Everlyn...
2016 PNG Update - Part 2 - ANU-UPNG Research Showcase Podcast
December 06, 2016 05:06 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBIn this podcast, part of a series of talks from the recent PNG Update, you will hear a collection of speeches showcasing the ANU-UPNG Partnership. In the first part, Nelson Nema, Professor Stephen Howes, Rohan Fox and Dr Manoj Pandey provide an update on PNG’s current economic performance. Following this are Peter Kanaparo and Dr Grant Walton, with a discussion on the unintended consequences of the PNG Tuition Fee Free policy (TFF). You can find a link to both presentations at the Devpoli...
2016 PNG Update - Part 1 - Bruce Davis & Charles Abel Podcast
December 06, 2016 05:06 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBIn this podcast, part of a series of speeches from the recent PNG Update, you will hear Mr. Bruce Davis, Australian High Commissioner to PNG; reflect on the diversity and strategic importance of the AUS – PNG relationship. Charles Abel, Honorable Minister for National Planning at the PNG Government, also speaks. Abel discusses the importance of PNG’s transition to a sustainable economy, and arguing that the responsible use of renewable resources is essential if PNG is to sustain growth beyo...
Robin Davies interviews Phillip Passmore - Part 2
November 28, 2016 23:45 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBDuring times of disaster, people naturally want to help. Unfortunately, they sometimes choose to do so in ways that do more harm and create more chaos: like emptying their medicine cabinets of expired goods and shipping them off overseas. Pharmacist Phillip Passmore has helped swamped local health systems deal with dodgy or unneeded drugs in post-tsunami Aceh and much, much more during his fascinating career. Read our Aid Profile on Phillip here: http://devpolicy.org/aidprofiles/2016/11/07/...
Robin Davies interviews Phillip Passmore - Part 1
November 28, 2016 23:42 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBDuring times of disaster, people naturally want to help. Unfortunately, they sometimes choose to do so in ways that do more harm and create more chaos: like emptying their medicine cabinets of expired goods and shipping them off overseas. Pharmacist Phillip Passmore has helped swamped local health systems deal with dodgy or unneeded drugs in post-tsunami Aceh and much, much more during his fascinating career. Read our Aid Profile on Phillip here: http://devpolicy.org/aidprofiles/2016/11/07/...
From managing disasters to managing disaster risk: an interview with Robert Glasser
November 25, 2016 02:42 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBDisaster risk reduction, and its interface with climate risk management and adaptation, is a topic of increasing interest in international development, particularly for those working in the Pacific. Robert Glasser is the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction in the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, otherwise known as UNISDR. Camilla Burkot spoke with Robert about developments in disaster risk reduction globally and in the Pacific, links between disa...
The future of the World Bank
November 15, 2016 02:18 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBSpeaker: Mr Kyle Peters, Interim Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President, Operations, The World Bank. The global community is facing extraordinary challenges which call for a new approach to ensuring the poorest and most vulnerable are protected. At the same time, the international community has significantly raised and accelerated its ambitions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, fight climate change, and better manage collective risks. As part of...
Betty Lovai Keynote - Women in Leadership - 2016 PNG Update
November 15, 2016 02:14 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBIn a keynote address at the 2016 PNG Update (held at the University of Papua New Guinea, November 3-4), Professor Betty Lovai, Dean of the UPNG School of Humanities and Social Science, discussed the challenges and barriers facing Papua New Guinean women leaders. You can find a transcript of Prof Lovai's presentation, and more information about the conference, here: https://devpolicy.crawford.anu.edu.au/png-and-pacific-updates/png-update Read and subscribe to our daily blogs at devpolicy.or...
In conversation with Muhammad Musa, BRAC ED
November 13, 2016 22:36 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBDr Muhammad Musa is the Executive Director of BRAC, the Bangladesh-based international NGO that has grown to become the world’s largest NGO (by number of employees). During a recent trip to Australia sponsored by DFAT, Dr Musa met with Camilla Burkot to share some insights from BRAC’s experience of pursuing financial self-sustainability, developing and scaling-up evidence-based programs, and the changing nature of NGO partnerships. Read and subscribe to our daily blogs at devpolicy.org. Le...
Challenging gender inequality: in conversation with UN Women Asia and the Pacific
November 04, 2016 02:44 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBGender inequality and violence against women are major development challenges facing the Asia-Pacific region. In a wide-ranging conversation hosted by UN Women National Committee Australia and the United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA) in Canberra on 11 October 2016, Anna-Karin Jatfors (Deputy Director, UN Women Asia and the Pacific) and Melissa Alvarado (Ending Violence Against Women Program Coordinator, UN Women Asia and the Pacific) discussed some of their organisation’s work. The...
ADB@50: what does the future hold?
November 03, 2016 00:18 - 1 hour - 82.9 MBTo help mark the Asian Development Bank’s half-century, a panel of eminent speakers shared their insights on Asia-Pacific development over the past 50 years and the relevance of the institution in current times. Speakers: Professor Ron Duncan, ANU; Mr Stephen Groff, Vice President, Asian Development Bank; Professor Hal Hill, ANU; Ms Annmaree O’Keeffe AM, Lowy Institute and Dr Matthew Dornan (chair), Deputy Director, Development Policy Centre, ANU. Read and subscribe to our daily blogs at d...
Strengthening public financial management reform in Pacific Island countries
November 03, 2016 00:17 - 1 hour - 86.2 MBThe World Bank, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT), and Overseas Development Institute (ODI) recently released a report that makes the case for adopting a problem-driven approach to public financial management reform in Pacific Island countries. The report, which includes the results of detailed case studies of reform experience in Kiribati and Tonga, examines how well reform programs have focused on the key challenges tha...
State of the PNG public sector - Mr John Ma'o Kali
October 26, 2016 02:59 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBIn this podcast, Devpolicy welcomes John Ma’o Kali, CMG, OBE, Secretary, Department of Personnel Management, Papua New Guinea Government. The Papua New Guinea’s Department of Personnel Management plays a critical role as a central agency in the Government’s policy initiatives and implementation of the Public Sector Reforms. You will hear Mr John Ma’o Kali, Secretary of Papua New Guinea’s Department of Personnel Management, examine the size and shape of the PNG’s public service, the success...
An interview with Helen Evans
October 19, 2016 01:14 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBRobin Davies interviews Helen Evans for our Aid Profiles series, discussing her stellar career in global health. Read the full aid profile here: http://devpolicy.org/aidprofiles/2016/10/19/helen-evans-a-decade-on-the-frontiers-of-global-health/ Read and subscribe to our daily blogs at devpolicy.org. Learn more about our research and join our public events at devpolicy.anu.edu.au. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram for latest updates on our blogs, research and events.
The Nauru dilemma
October 17, 2016 23:20 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBWhen asked by then Immigration Minister Tony Burke to provide services to asylum seeker children on Nauru in 2013, Save the Children Australia was faced with a clear dilemma. The Government’s policy was a clear breach of international law, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child. If Save the Children provided services, there was a risk that it may be considered complicit in that breach. On the other hand, Save the Children had significant experience working with refugees and asyl...
The intractable problem of landowner identification in the PNG LNG project: a historical perspective
September 12, 2016 01:08 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBIn the second week of August this year, Papua New Guinea’s national newspapers reported that the customary landowners of the Hides gas field, the primary source of raw material for PNG’s Liquified Natural Gas project, were protesting and threatening to ‘turn off the taps’. This was because they had still not not received significant amounts of the money that was owing to them under a series of development agreements negotiated in 2009, despite the fact that the project has already been opera...
Part 2 - ODE aid evaluations: investing in teachers and learning from evaluations
September 05, 2016 05:19 - 1 hour - 63.6 MBThe Office of Development Effectiveness (ODE) is an operationally independent unit within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) that measures and reports on the effectiveness of the Australian aid program. This forum, which was jointly organised by the Development Policy Centre and ODE, was the latest in a series with the aim of profiling and discussing ODE evaluations and reports. This event focused on ODE’s recent report on teacher training and its latest review of operation...
Part 1 - ODE aid evaluations: investing in teachers and learning from evaluations
September 05, 2016 05:07 - 1 hour - 98.3 MBThe Office of Development Effectiveness (ODE) is an operationally independent unit within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) that measures and reports on the effectiveness of the Australian aid program. This forum, which was jointly organised by the Development Policy Centre and ODE, was the latest in a series with the aim of profiling and discussing ODE evaluations and reports. This event focused on ODE’s recent report on teacher training and its latest review of operation...
Telecommunications regulation in Vanuatu – in conversation with Dalsie Baniala
August 08, 2016 01:39 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MBDalsie Baniala is the first ni-Vanuatu to hold the position of Telecommunications and Radiocommunications Regulator (TRR). She sat down with Tess Newton Cain to discuss the work of her office and the challenges she and her team are facing, as part of the Pacific Conversations series. Read a summary of their conversation here: http://devpolicy.org/telecommunications-regulation-in-vanuatu-in-conversation-with-dalsie-baniala-20160809 A full transcript of the podcast can be found here: http://...
Labour Mobility - Pacific Possible
August 05, 2016 00:36 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBLabour mobility is increasingly recognized as critical for the Pacific island region. But opportunities to migrate are unevenly distributed across the Pacific, which includes both some of the most integrated and some of the most isolated countries in the world. What could be possible by 2040 if the potential of labour mobility were to be fully realized? What actions can sending and receiving countries take to make this a reality? The new joint ANU-World Bank report Pacific Possible: Labour ...
The case of water sector reform in Lebanon
August 02, 2016 01:29 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBThis seminar will discuss some of the compounded challenges of implementing a donor-driven reform and water resources management in Lebanon, a paradigmatic fragile, politically and socially divided, aid dependent country. Despite a major water sector reform started over a decade ago, and substantial donor pressure to promote it, water resources management remains a core sustainable development challenge for Lebanon. The conditional, generic, and prescriptive approach of the donors in driving...
Financing responses to climate change in the Pacific
July 26, 2016 23:42 - 1 hour - 107 MBClimate finance and in particular adaptation finance has never been higher on the climate change agenda. The Paris Agreement in December 2015 confirmed the goal of providing US$100 billion each year by 2020 for climate action in developing countries, with balanced allocation between adaptation and mitigation, and agreed to set a new, longer-term collective goal by 2025. Adaptation finance is of particular relevance for Pacific island countries, which are among the states in the world most v...
Going beyond ‘politics matters’ in international development
July 07, 2016 23:43 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBThat politics has a defining influence over development prospects is now broadly accepted amongst leading development theorists and agencies alike. However, there is less agreement over which forms of politics matter most, how these can be conceptualised and what kinds of policy implications flow from thinking politically about development. This seminar addresses these questions by presenting the key findings of a five-year comparative investigation into the politics of development in Africa...
Towards an integrated labour migration strategy in our Pacific neighbourhood
June 16, 2016 09:37 - 1 hour - 66 MBIn this public lecture delivered on 2 June 2016, Professor Richard Bedford takes a long-term perspective, looking both backwards and forwards, at Pacific migration and the approach of Australia and New Zealand to it. Between 2007 and 2010 the late Graeme Hugo and Dr Richard Bedford met several times with the Australia New Zealand Immigration Forum, an annual meeting of senior officials from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship and the Department of Labour (NZ), to discuss populatio...
Immigration detention: Australia and its neighbours
June 13, 2016 11:49 - 50 minutes - 46 MBAustralia currently holds or has contracted other countries to hold 3,052 people in immigration detention, including 50 children in Nauru (data from end March 2016). Most are from developing countries, including Iran, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, China and Afghanistan. The Global Detention Project is a Geneva-based non-government organisation formed in 2014 to investigate the use of immigration detention as a response to global migration. The Development Policy Centre’s Associate Director spoke with ...
New approaches to tackling gender-based violence in Papua New Guinea
May 25, 2016 00:42 - 1 hour - 77.6 MBSpeakers: Anna Solomon, Secretary, Department for Community Development and Religion, PNG; Denga Ilave, Operations Manager for Femili PNG; Kymberley Kepore, Chief Executive Officer of the Oil Search Foundation. Chaired by Sally Moyle, DFAT. Rates of family and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea are among the highest in the world, with some estimating that 70 per cent of women experience physical or sexual assault in their lifetime. Children are also significantly affected. While much is sa...
University reform in Papua New Guinea: the Unitech experience
May 25, 2016 00:36 - 1 hour - 65.6 MBSpeaker: Dr Albert Schram, Vice-Chancellor of Papua New Guinea’s University of Technology. Despite its age, the PNG university system is not yet mature. The challenges regarding the quantity and reliability of its funding, and recent legislative changes have not made things better. Efforts to create a solid governance structure, and develop the PNG University of Technology despite its financial constraints and difficult operating environment, contain many lessons for universities in develop...