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French Polynesia’s legislature shows new shape, more divisions

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French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson (left) and his father-in-law Oscar Temaru, president of the ruling Party Tavini Huiraatira
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Mass Easter resignations within Tahiti’s pro-independence ruling party

Tavini’s historic leader Oscar Temaru (from left), French Polynesia’s current President Moetai Brotherson, and Tematai Le Gayic
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Rift widens within French Polynesia’s ruling party following municipal election losses

The Cree Indian motif – inspired by the mythology of the elderly woman "Eyes of Fire" and her vision for the future – painted on the original Rainbow Warrior smoke stack
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From nuclear to climate crisis survivors: unfinished business in the Pacific

French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson
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‘The girl from Tahiti’ – Pacific Islands in the Epstein files

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French sailors hunker down in an inflatable
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French shrug off cocaine case costs with new smugglers ‘strategy’

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The cocaine was being transported on a ship sailing under Togo's flag
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New Zealand author David Robie
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David Robie’s Eyes of Fire rekindles the legacy of the Rainbow...

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The Tahiti search operations involved about 200 emergency staff
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Tahiti landslide: no survivors – all 8 bodies retrieved

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Decades after the nuclear tests, Pacific people still endure many consequences
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Pacific lawmakers call for creation of human rights commissions to fight...

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October 29, 2025
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Journalist and author Dr David Robie speaking to the Fabian Society
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France’s betrayal of Kanak hopes for independence, Rainbow Warrior, climate crisis...

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The tsunami waves, caused by a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia, have now rolled on southeastward toward South America
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Pacific avoids major damage after powerful quake off Russia

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"Hot off the press" . . . David Robie talks Eyes of Fire just after receiving the first copy of his book marking 40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior on 10 July 1985
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David Robie: New Zealand must do more for Pacific and confront...

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"Legends of the Pacific: Stories of a Nuclear-Free Moana 1975-1995"
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NFIP activists, advocates to open nuclear-free Pacific exhibition

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Greenpeace Aotearoa held a dawn ceremony on board the Rainbow Warrior III today commemorating the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior and the death of photographer Fernando Pereira on 10 July 1985
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Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 40 years on

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One of many Rongelap people who had to leave their ancestral home via the Rainbow Warrior due to nuclear
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Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow...

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The Castle Bravo test was 1000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima
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The Rainbow Warrior saga. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific...

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July 7, 2025
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The bombed Rainbow Warrior next morning
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The Rainbow Warrior saga: 1. French state terrorism and NZ’s end...

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July 3, 2025
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Investigative journalist Richard Baker's SBS "Fallout" podcast on the Rainbow Warrior and the Norfolk Island connection
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Fallout: Spies on Norfolk Island – SBS podcast

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Te Mareikura Whakataka Brightwell
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Tahiti prepares for its first Matari’i public holiday

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June 30, 2025
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The Gambier Islands
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French Polynesia president announces huge highly protected marine area

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June 11, 2025
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Pacific civil society groups challenge France over hosting UN oceans event...

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June 10, 2025
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A poster highlighting the issue of political prisoners depicting the Kanak flag after the pro-independence unrest and riots
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New Caledonia, French Polynesia at UN decolonisation seminar in Dili

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All of New Caledonia’s political parties engaged in a video conference with French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls
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Leaked ‘working paper’ on New Caledonia’s political future sparks new concerns

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April 14, 2025
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French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle
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France plans to deploy flagship carrier Charles de Gaulle to Pacific...

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January 12, 2025
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The Pacific 2025 year ahead
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CLIMATE AND COVID

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A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"
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How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

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Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
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Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

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Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide
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