Links on developments across the Pacific region.

Links from across the Pacific Islands by The Interpreter team.

Sometimes your closest friends, rather than your rivals, cause the biggest headaches.

Links from across the Pacific Islands from The Interpreter team.

An economy in bad shape compounds painful memories as the French territory struggles with questions of independence.

Not every soldier has the skills to mentor and advise foreign forces.

Links on Pacific island matters from The Interpreter team.

President Tsai Ing-wen’s visit to the Pacific took an intriguing detour, perhaps a signal of trouble to come.

Momentous discussions are underway to determine the future of Australia's closest eastern neighbour.

Updates on developments across the Pacific.

Where Australia leads, Pacific island nations may not want to follow.

Climate change negotiations might be moving slowly, yet Australia is excluding itself from the conversation.

It is no secret that the PNG economy is facing some very tough times.

Pacific island links from The Interpreter team.

Coy about China, the government studiously avoids any sense of alarm about the region.

Tiny island nations and Australia alike will benefit from intimate ties.

Australia’s position as the world’s largest coal exporter does not sit easy with many Pacific Islanders.

Euan Moyle,an intern with the Pacific Islands Program, with links on developments across the Pacific.

Labor's Richard Marles has clear passion for the Pacific. Here's how to make it practical.

As PM, Rick Houenipwela can set the agenda but he can't personally implement every single policy.

It's rare win-win for anyone not working in Huawei’s Pacific branch.

Euan Moyle, an intern with the Lowy Institute's Pacific Island Program, with links on developments across the Pacific.

Business is shy of investing in the Pacific without a framework to resolve cross-border commercial disputes.

A few extra dollars from Australia could encourage greater habits of cooperation in the Pacific.

Euan Moyle, an intern with the Lowy Institute's Pacific Islands Program, with links on developments across the region.

PNG is Australia’s nearest neighbour, former colony and one of Australia’s most important bilateral partners.

Euan Moyle, an intern with the Lowy Institute's Pacific Islands Program, with links on developments across the Pacific.

Euan Moyle, an intern with the Lowy Institute's Pacific Islands Program, with links on developments across the Pacific.

This week's links also include an investigation into the deportation off Chinese nationals from Fiji.

As more small island developing states reach the high-income threshold, the OECD needs to review its measure of ODA eligibility.

The evacuation of Vanuatu's Ambae Island, a winner declared in South Highlands province, Cook Islands a developing nation for now and more.

The Bougainville independence referendum, due in 2019, may not go ahead.

Not all of PNG’s electoral problems could be solved before 2022, but a thorough examination of the lessons learned from 2017 is the way to start.

This week's links also include updates on the asylum seekers and refugees on Manus and a possible revival of the ABC's shortwave radio services.

This week's links include the 48th Pacific Islands Forum underway in Samoa, Tonga without a caretaker government, and a parliamentary defection in PNG.

This week's links also include a look at the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting and the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Milne Bay.

This week's links also include an examination of the historical significance of the Australia-PNG relationship for both countries.

The count in the final undeclared seat in Papua New Guinea’s 2017 national elections has resumed – more than five weeks after polling was supposed to end.

Julie Bishop speaking on Australia's new approach to the Pacific, violence in PNG's Highland provinces, the real danger facing Guam and more.

The returning officer told us that as many as one in four intending voters in Talsea were being turned away, their names not on the list.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop's speech was memorable for both the agenda it set out for relations between Australia and the countries in the Pacific, and the way this was expressed.

This weeks links include PNG's election results, the exploitation of seasonal workers in Australia and managing tribal warfare in PNG's highlands.

Papua New Guinea's post-election dramas, a new report on logging in PNG, and VR bringing Pacific languages to life.

If the ADF deploys for more humanitarian operations in the Pacific, its budget, equipment and personnel will be stressed.

This week's include more and varied fallout from the PNG election - including some results - and a World Heritage victory for French Polynesia.

Voting is over in the PNG elections but the drama of the event continues.

This week's links also cover off on the ongoing process to elect Vanuatu's new president and different views on climate change and resettlement.

This week's links also include a look at the ongoing impact of the 2015-16 drought in PNG, the 2017 Pacific Update and the new documentary, My Father, My Country.

A relatively recent change in diet risks having a devastating effect on an entire generation of Pacific Islanders.

This model forces decision-makers to compare the pre-emptive costs of intervention against the cost of restorative intervention.