Assessing the Impact of Public Finances on the PNG-Australia Borderland

该项目旨在解决一个棘手的公共政策问题，即如何更好地管理跨越我们国际边界的公共财政和人员流动。根据《托雷斯海峡条约》的法律框架，居住在巴布亚新几内亚-澳大利亚边境地区的托雷斯海峡岛民和巴布亚新几内亚国民可以相对不受限制地跨越边界从事传统活动。来自澳大利亚的公共财政支出的相互作用强烈地主导着边境地区的经济，影响着跨界流动以及随之而来的疾病传播、检疫和跨国犯罪带来的公共卫生和安全风险。通过使目前的政策框架成问题，并分析该区域相对于国际上其他边界地区的不对称社会经济背景，该项目的目的是提出替代融资模式，以提高边界两侧的效力。

The project aims to address a vexed public policy problem of how to better manage the flow of public finances and people across our international borders. Torres Strait Islanders and Papua New Guinea (PNG) nationals living in the PNG–Australia borderland have relatively unrestricted access across the border for traditional activities, under the legal framework of the Torres Strait Treaty. The interplay of public finance expenditure emanating from Australia strongly dominates the borderland economy, influencing cross-border mobility and attendant public health and security risks from disease transmission, quarantine and transnational crime. By problematising current policy framings and analysing the asymmetric socio-economic context of the region relative to other borderlands internationally, the project aims to propose alternative finance modalities that improve effectiveness across both sides of the border.