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It was 2019 when a group of law students at the University of the South Pacific’s campus in Port Vila, the harbourside capital of Vanuatu, were set a challenge
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Iora Open MP Theonila Roka Matbob in central Bougainville
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Author David Robie with his latest book, Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior.
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Rainbow Warrior host Niamh O'Flynn talks to author David Robie in the ship's mess as part of the virtual tour
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Flashback to Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara's funeral in 2004
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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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Flags from most of the Micronesian islands participating in the regional summit this week fly outside the International Conference Center
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Fiji protesters in support of a "Free West Papua"
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Te Mareikura Whakataka Brightwell
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Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark
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Clark warns in new Pacific book renewed nuclear tensions pose ‘existential...

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Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka
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Arab members of the Global March To Gaza were the targets of the most dramatic and violent excesses committed by the Egyptian authorities
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Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer at a pro-Palestinian rally outside the NZ Parliament
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Te Pāti Māori's Rawiri Waititi (from left), Hana Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer . . . punished
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"On top of her bold activism, Hilda LINI was also a mother to us."
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Motarilavoa Hilda Lini – strong, passionate fighter for decolonisation, nuclear-free Pacific

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Motarilavoa Hilda Lini
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Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, ‘a trailblazer’ for Vanuatu women in politics, dies

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Although New Caledonia is one of New Zealand’s closest neighbours, the French colony feels very isolated from the rest of the Pacific
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Kanak community leader Jean Baptiste
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Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
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