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国界的公共资金和人员流动。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越过边界从事传统活动。来自澳大利亚的公共财政支出的相互作用在边境经济中占主导地位，影响着跨境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。通过对当前政策框架提出问题，并分析该地区相对于国际上其他边境地区的不对称社会经济背景，该项目旨在提出可替代的融资模式，以提高边境双方的有效性。

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.