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Destitution on Australia's hardening border with PNG – and the need for a better aid strategy

  • Written by Mark Moran, Professor of Development Effectiveness, The University of Queensland
Visiting women from the South Fly selling their crafts in an informal market on Boigu Island in the Torres Strait.Author provided

Less than four kilometres from Australia’s northernmost islands in the Torres Strait lies the South Fly District of Papua New Guinea.

If you’ve ever heard anything about this borderland region – wedged...

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