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Visit to Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and the Pacific Islands Forum Foreign Ministers Meeting in Fiji
The National Tribune
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August 10, 2025
Department of Defence This week, the Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles, Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong, and Minister for Pacific Island Affairs Pat Conroy, will travel to the Pacific as Australia continues to...
Sea life returns to Vanuatu reefs
Starts at 60
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August 8, 2025
Beneath the turquoise waters of Vanuatu, amid a graveyard of broken coral, a moray eel peers from the branches of a staghorn colony. Nearby, the feathered arms of a yellow sea lily sway in the current and a turtle grazes on algae growing along the...
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...
In disaster-prone Vanuatu, photos show sea animals returning to battered reefs. Can recovery happen?
WTOP - District Columbia
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August 8, 2025
OFF THE COAST OF EFATE ISLAND, Vanuatu (AP) — Beneath the turquoise waters of Vanuatu, amid a graveyard of broken… OFF THE COAST OF EFATE ISLAND, Vanuatu (AP) — Beneath the turquoise waters of Vanuatu, amid a graveyard of broken coral, a moray eel...
Eight Decades On, Vanuatu Still Struggles With America’s World War II Legacy
New Lines Magazine
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August 8, 2025
Distant, dreamy atolls have been the focus of an American love affair since James A. Michener first published his “Tales of the South Pacific” in 1947. “I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific,” his book begins: The way it actually was....
In disaster-prone Vanuatu, sea life returning to reefs
Bay Post
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August 8, 2025
"Whether that's overfishing, crown-of-thorns, man-made pollution, or increased runoff from natural disasters — the insults to our marine system keep coming. And I think that's why our reefs might well be in trouble."
Veterans star as Collingwood downs Adelaide to reach preliminary final
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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September 4, 2025
Collingwood has booked its spot in a home preliminary final after recording a courageous 24-point qualifying final win over Adelaide. Despite kicking just one goal in the final quarter, the Magpies overcame the AFL's minor premiers in the second...
Military bands tattoo continues with a second day performance at Sir Hubert Murray Stadium in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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September 6, 2025
The military band from the PNG Defence Force also had partner nations join on the second day of their performance. The band performance is part of the PNGDF week commemorating the Country’s 50th Golden Jubilee. According to the schedule, PNG will...
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...
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...
Police arrest seven men over 'targeted' Queanbeyan double stabbing
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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September 4, 2025
Seven men have been arrested over a stabbing in Queanbeyan last month and charged with wounding with intent to murder. NSW Police said two men were stabbed at a business on Crawford Street about 1:10pm on August 8, and received "serious injuries"....
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....
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...
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,...
Deadly threat of unexploded bombs in the Pacific persists 80 years on
Independent Australia
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Eighty years after WWII, Solomon Islanders face the ongoing threat of death and injury from hidden, unexploded bombs, writes Catherine Wilson. THIS YEAR is the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, but in some countries, the trail...
'Young Boydie' hits first hole-in-one a week after 92nd birthday
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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September 3, 2025
A 92-year-old golfer is the talk of his town after hitting his first hole-in-one from more than 100 metres away at Casino Golf Course. Boydie Collyer hit the ball a whopping 117 metres. "It just felt good, when I hit it, it just felt good," he...
Victorian company loses court bid to keep pre-Columbian artefact
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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September 3, 2025
It's a tale worthy of an Indiana Jones saga, involving allegations of looting, archaeology and an ancient civilisation, which has stretched from South America to Melbourne. It all came to a head today in Canberra when Victorian company Palmanova...
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...