Devpolicy Talks brings you interviews, event recordings and 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, the Pacific Update and the Australasian Aid and International Development Conference.
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Devpolicy Talks brings you interviews, event recordings and 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, the Pacific Update and the Australasian Aid and International Development Conference.
From Vanuatu's challenges to Melanesian cooperation: a conversation with Gregoire Nimbtik
Devpolicy Talks
35 minutes 49 seconds
3 weeks ago
From Vanuatu's challenges to Melanesian cooperation: a conversation with Gregoire Nimbtik
Gregoire Nimbtik, former head of Vanuatu's Prime Minister's Department and former Deputy Director General of the Melanesian Spearhead Group Secretariat, reflects on the formidable development challenges facing Vanuatu and the broader Melanesian region. Speaking in the margins of the 2025 Pacific Update conference in Suva, Nimbtik discusses how Vanuatu is grappling with the compounding crises of Air Vanuatu's bankruptcy in May 2024, the devastating December 2024 earthquake that struck Port Vila, and long-standing issues of political instability and corruption. He explores the tension between custom governance and Westminster systems of governance, the controversial citizenship-by-investment scheme that recently made headlines with the Andrew Tate case, and the impacts of labour mobility programs on Vanuatu's development trajectory. Nimbtik also reflects on his experience leading the MSG delegation to the International Court of Justice on climate change obligations and discusses the MSG complements the broader Pacific architecture. His insights offer a rare perspective on the intersection of traditional governance, modern development challenges and geopolitical pressures in the Pacific.
Devpolicy Talks
Devpolicy Talks brings you interviews, event recordings and 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, the Pacific Update and the Australasian Aid and International Development Conference.
