Stephen Howes
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- Sep 15, 2026
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Four years on: what has happened to ending enforced family separation under PALM - Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre (opens the original)
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The Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) visa is one of very few of Australia’s temporary work visas — and by far the biggest — that mandates family separation. Long-time PALM analyst Peter Mares has written that: “Prolonged family separation is unconscionable.” This is almost right. It is unconscionable if it is enforced by government. It should be for families themselves to decide whether to stay together or not. PALM workers are of two types: those with short-stay visas, here for several
July 2026 aid news - Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre (opens the original)
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At its triennial national conference, the Australian Labor Party adopted its latest policy platform which says that the party will “increas[e] aid every year that we are in office” and “work on sustainable pathways towards allocating 1% of the federal budget for overseas development assistance expenditure … “. While aid will increase in nominal terms, Australia’s aid spending will decline both in real terms and as a share of the federal budget over the forward estimates. It is projected to fall
Nauru’s remarkable recent economic success - Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre (opens the original)
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After a disastrous first couple of decades following independence in 1968, Nauru turned its economic fortunes around in the 2010s, with average annual per-person growth in national income of 4.9% between 2009 and 2024. In 2020, it was once again reclassified as a high-income country. Nauru’s boom has been caused by a surge in foreign income. Its ratio of foreign income to GDP grew from around 30% in the late 2000s to more than 60% now. The major sources of foreign income have been Australia’s Re
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