The Foundation for the People of the South Pacific International (FSPI) is a regional agency based in Suva. FSPI’s project V&C: Gardening Good Governance and Democracy in the Pacific (V&C) is the subject of this review. The main objective of V&C is to address threats to peace and sustainable development by fostering or ‘gardening’ civil...

In the past year the 'war against terror' and perceptions of state failure within the post-colonial Pacific have sparked an Australian-led initiative to deepen and widen regional integration in Oceania. Greg Fry argues that behind the seeming unanimity of the 2004 Auckland Declaration and agreement by Pacific Islands Forum leaders on a 'Pacific vision' and...

The detailed integrated National Phytosanitary Database system (NPD) was developed to provide an enabling tool for managers. The review’s field mission was able to witness the NPD being used, but only for a fraction of its functionality.

Australia cannot be complacent and must constantly look for opportunities that will enable today's small to medium firms to engage within the region and grow into the larger firms that will provide the bulk of our exports in the future. Indeed, argue Lyndal Thorburn and John Langdale, much of our success now relates not to...

Professor Hughes analyses the causes of economic stagnation that are making the Pacific islands an 'arc of instability' threatening Australia's security. Aid, far from helping the Pacific to grow, has damaged it, making it possible for Pacific governments to pursue extravagant policies unsuitable for small island economies. As a result, Professor Hughes calls for a...