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Driver fined $2,000 for killing Melbourne student Jack Davey
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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September 3, 2025
Shaymaa Oun Ghazi Zuhaira left the Melbourne Magistrates Court with a $2,000 fine on Wednesday. But as the magistrate and one of her victims pointed out, the real punishment will be living with the consequences of a split-second mistake that...
Nauru reboots passport sale scheme to fund climate fight
1News
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The tiny central Pacific nation of Nauru is selling off its citizenship to help fight the effects of climate change. Since it launched the Nauru Economic and Climate Resilience Citizenship Program late last year, it has had a small but steady flow...
New CWMH master plan promises world-class care
FBC News
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September 6, 2025
file photo The government is set to transform the Colonial War Memorial Hospital in Suva into a modern, world-class facility to meet national and regional healthcare demands. CWM Medical Superintendent Dr Luke Nasedra outlined this plan during the...
Transparency Pacific Chapters Challenges People’s Forum: “Stop Re-Electing Corrupt Leaders”
Pacific Scoop
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September 4, 2025
Press Release – PIANGO Transparency Vanuatu CEO Dr Willie Tokon reminded participants that when citizens elect someone to parliament, they are entrusting them with the power to make decisions. Politicians are not gods, are temporary, and can be...
99k deportation backlog rocks Australia
The Geelong Advertiser
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September 5, 2025
International students are overwhelming Australia’s asylum system with bogus refugee applications, as the country’s deportation backlog surges towards 100,000. As of July 31, there were 98,979 people whose protection visa application had been...
The world-famous musicians who still call Australia home
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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September 2, 2025
With the exception of names like our grand Dames of opera, Nellie Melba and Joan Sutherland, Australia's track-record of nurturing talent here at home hasn't always been stellar. Conductor Simone Young, arguably one of Australia's most successful...
Polynesian Anglican woman joins traditional voyage to voice youth concerns at Pacific Islands Forum
Christian Daily International
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The Most Revd Sione Uluilakepa, Archbishop and Primate of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia blessed the voyage Uto ni Yalo Trust / Anglican Diocese of Polynesia A traditional canoe carrying young Pacific activists sailed...
OFC Pro League to launch four new Pacific football franchises
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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September 3, 2025
A new era is on the horizon for soccer in Oceania, with the eight-team OFC Pro-League set to kick off in January. Five Pacific Island teams have won bids to join the competition, four of which will be brand new franchises based in Fiji, Vanuatu,...
Police reviewing 'remarkable' amount of new Dezi Freeman information
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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September 1, 2025
A week on from the shooting deaths of two police officers in Victoria's north-east, investigators are changing their approach to finding the man believed to be responsible. Dezi Freeman vanished into bushland around his Porepunkah property after...
Transparency Pacific Challenges People’s Forum: “Stop Re-Electing Corrupt Leaders”
Solomon Star
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September 6, 2025
Honiara: Politicians are not gods, are temporary, and can be voted out, participants of the Pacific Peoples Forum in Honiara were reminded on Friday. Speaking at the gathering comprising of Pacific civil society and community organisation...
Counter-terrorism police reviewing attack on Indigenous gathering place
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 31, 2025
Counter-terrorism police will help investigate an attack on a First Nations protest camp in Melbourne by far-right demonstrators after Sunday's anti-immigration rally in the city, Victoria's police minister says. Victoria Police said a group of...
The UN’s Krazy Kangaroo Klimate Kourt
The Heartland Institute
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September 4, 2025
Countries, companies, “deniers” and especially poor families are in the daffy court’s crosshairs Vanuatu and other “climate vulnerable” island nations claim they are threatened by rising seas and worsening typhoons caused by fossil fuel use. In...
US policy shifts put pressure on Tuna Treaty
The Islandsun
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September 6, 2025
BY BEN BILUA Changes in the United States’ foreign policy have placed renewed pressure on the long-standing Tuna Treaty between the US and Pacific Island countries. Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat’s Acting Director of Governance and Engagement,...
Mallorca immigration crisis: “If the Balearics wants EU border control help Madrid will have to ask for it not Palma”
Majorca Daily Bulletin
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September 6, 2025
N ICK Squires has been the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph correspondent in Rome since 2008 and usually tends to cover events in other countries in Eastern Europe. However, of late he has been posted to Mallorca twice. Last year this was to...
Sir Hubert Murray Stadium hosts day two of PNG Defence Force Military Tattoo
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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September 6, 2025
The Military Tattoo continues with a second day performance at Sir Hubert Murray Stadium in Port Moresby. The military band from the PNG Defence Force also had partner nations join on the second day of their performance. The band performance is...
The Price of Belonging: Passports, Power, and the Peril of Monetizing Citizenship
Realnews Magazine
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September 6, 2025
Africa By Agbeze Ireke Kalu Onuma I have always believed that a passport is more than a booklet of paper; it is a key, a symbol, a bridge between where we are and where we dream to be. It is a tangible manifestation of the social contract between...
West Papua holds an important place on Pacific countries' agenda - former New Caledonia President Louis Mapou
RNZ
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September 6, 2025
New Caledonia President Louis Mapou in the Tonga island group of Vava'u. Photo: RNZ Pacific/ Lydia Lewis Former New Caledonia President Louis Mapou says human rights and sovereignty are big issues facing not only Melanesia, but the wider Pacific....
Dezi Freeman's wife issues plea for alleged gunman to surrender to police
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 30, 2025
The wife of alleged gunman Dezi Freeman has urged her husband to surrender and offered her condolences to the families of two police officers who were shot dead last week in regional Victoria. In a statement provided via her lawyer, Amalia Freeman...
West Papua holds an important place on Pacific countries' agenda says Mapou.
RNZ
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September 6, 2025
New Caledonia President Louis Mapou in the Tonga island group of Vava'u. Photo: RNZ Pacific/ Lydia Lewis Former New Caledonia President Louis Mapou says human rights and sovereignty are big issues facing not only Melanesia but the wider Pacific....
Australia vs Argentina streams: How to watch Rugby Championship 2025 live online from anywhere
TechRadar
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September 6, 2025
The Wallabies may only be second in the Rugby Championship 2025 standings, but they've looked the best team so far. However, next up are Argentina, who have won three of their last four meetings with Australia – including that record 67-27 mauling...