Murder in the Pacific: Matt Francis on aid and agency in Vanuatu
In this episode, Gordon Peake speaks with the pseudonymous crime writer Matt Francis about the Murder in the Pacific series, four novels set across the provinces of Vanuatu and featuring Sergeant Geor...
3 Aug 58min
The Memorandum of Understanding podcast archive is now in this feed, filed under 2021
Gordon Peake's Memorandum of Understanding documentary podcast series, while produced by the Development Policy Centre, was formerly separate from Devpolicy Talks. Its back catalogue has now been adde...
1 Aug 1min
Humanitarianism and public health: an interview with Rick Brennan
Rick Brennan, an Australian emergency physician appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2025, recounts the pivotal early decision that shaped his professional life — choosing public health and...
4 Juli 50min
2026 aid budget breakfast
Recorded the morning after the 2026–27 federal budget, this first episode of the 2026 season brings you the Development Policy Centre's fourteenth annual aid budget breakfast, hosted by Devpolicy Blog...
15 Maj 58min
Navigating China and the Global South: a conversation with Eric Olander
Eric Olander, Editor-in-Chief of the China Global South Project, offers a nuanced perspective on China’s engagement with developing countries across Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Pacif...
15 Dec 20251h 34min
Pacific democracy: global indices and lived realities
This episode explores the state of democracy in the Pacific, focusing on a joint report by International IDEA and the Australia National University's Department of Pacific Affairs (DPA). The report, r...
6 Dec 20251h 18min
Global public goods and the architecture of cooperation: a conversation with Inge Kaul
Inge Kaul, pioneering development economist and architect of the global public goods framework, discusses her groundbreaking work on international cooperation and development financing in this 2015 in...
14 Nov 20252h 12min
Water, climate and adaptation: a conversation with Dr Aditi Mukherji
Dr Aditi Mukherji, Principal Scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute and coordinating lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's water chapter, discusses her ca...
1 Nov 202535min
