Opinion & Commentary by Author

1. State government gravy train is on the wrong track

   Gaurav Sodhi | 07 Oct 2008 | The Sydney Morning Herald

   There are lots of people scratching their heads trying to understand how publicly listed companies owned by savvy shareholders,... Read More

2. The Pacific has two different faces

   Gaurav Sodhi | 11 Sep 2008 | The Fiji Times

   The new guest worker scheme announced by the Australian Government on Monday is being billed by many Pacific governments,... Read More

3. The Pacific is a crime bomb and needs economic reform

   Gaurav Sodhi | 21 Aug 2008 | The Australian

   The new ‘guest worker’ scheme is being billed by many Pacific governments, aid organisations and The World Bank as a... Read More

4. Migration scheme won’t solve Pacific’s problems

   Gaurav Sodhi | 21 Aug 2008 | ABC News Online

   It wouldn’t be polite to say so at the Forum meeting in Nuie this week, but there is trouble brewing in the South Pacific. ... Read More

5. Happy Anniversary RAMSI

   Gaurav Sodhi | 24 Jul 2008 | ABC News Online

   Five years ago today, Australia embarked on one of its most ambitious foreign policy exercises in recent years when it led... Read More

6. The Myth of OPEC

   Gaurav Sodhi | 24 Jun 2008 | The Australian Financial Review

   OPEC has long been considered an economic boogey man terrorizing economies all over the world. When politicians fret that... Read More

7. Pricey petrol does a world of good

   Gaurav Sodhi | 29 May 2008 | The Sydeny Morning Herald

   There was a time when supermarket dockets were but fiddly bits of paper that were carelessly crumpled and binned. But a strange... Read More

8. Why RAMSI should stay

   Gaurav Sodhi | 20 Apr 2008

   Now into its fifth year and with no exit strategy in sight, questions are beginning to be asked about the future of the Australian-led... Read More

9. Solomon Islands - resurrected but not reformed

   Gaurav Sodhi | 04 Feb 2008 | Online Opinion

   When the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands was launched in 2003, it marked a turning point for Australia's... Read More

10. Solomons Islands: Resurrected, not reformed

    Gaurav Sodhi | 15 Jan 2008 | Islands Business Magazine

    The Solomon Islands are today one of the poorest and least developed countries in the South Pacific. The islands are richly... Read More

11. International attention has been scathing of Papua New Guinea

    Gaurav Sodhi | 10 Sep 2007 | The Canberra Times

    International attention has been scathing of Papua New Guinea after revelations some HIV/AIDS victims have been buried alive... Read More

12. Elections should be a way of holding political leaders to account for their actions

    Gaurav Sodhi | 29 Aug 2007 | The Canberrra Times

    It is a measure of the dysfunction of Papua New Guinea that elections marred by disenfranchised voters, fraud, criminal MPs... Read More

13. It’s not the size of your engine, it’s what you do with it

    Gaurav Sodhi | 20 Jun 2007 | Online Opinion

    The Beattie State Government is trying to rid the public of a nasty little habit we have acquired. It seems folk these days... Read More

14. Is Asia in need of Australian aid more than the Pacific?

    Gaurav Sodhi | 31 May 2007 | The Canberra Times

    Eyebrows were raised in the Pacific this month as Indonesia displaced Papua New Guinea as the largest recipient of Australian... Read More

15. All shoulders to the wheel

    Gaurav Sodhi | 15 Apr 2007 | The Courier Mail

    A visitor to Chimbu Province in Papua New Guinea would have watched in stunned surprise last month, as thousands of villagers... Read More

16. Tonga needs democracy, not aid

    Gaurav Sodhi | 21 Nov 2006 | The Australian

    Mayhem has tragically overtaken the ‘happy isles’. Years of exploitation by the monarchy and nobility came to a head... Read More

17. Seasonal migration is not a solution

    Gaurav Sodhi | 08 Sep 2006 | The Canberra Times

    The World Bank recently joined a growing list of organisations putting pressure on the Government to open its doors to unskilled... Read More

18. Self-interest skyrockets in spoilt nation

    Gaurav Sodhi | 11 Aug 2006 | The Courier Mail

    The Reserve Bank's latest interest rate rise has been particularly revealing. Not only has it confirmed what the everyman... Read More

19. Vanutatu’s failures propped up again

    Gaurav Sodhi | 07 Apr 2006 | The Dominion Post

    Vanuatu is no stranger to aid. Since independence in 1980 the Pacific island country has received more than $2 billion in... Read More