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Democracy

PNG police ‘lack accountability, governance’, warns commissioner

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Mayor Wayne Brown's backdown
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PNG's stood down Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko
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Tahiti's President Moetai Brotherson
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Prime Ministers Sitiveni Rabuka of Fiji (left) and Chris Hipkins of New Zealand
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Hipkins grants Fiji $11m in climate crisis aid as Rabuka renews...

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June 8, 2023
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Panguna mine . . . the flooding
Bougainville

Bougainville leaders call on mining giant Rio Tinto to assist communities

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June 7, 2023
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Vanuatu PM Ishmael Kalsakau
Climate

Climate crisis greatest threat to Pacific regional security, says Vanuatu PM

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June 7, 2023
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Pasifika broadcasters
Cook Islands

‘Let’s tell our own stories’ – Pacific broadcasters seek sovereignty

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June 6, 2023
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The US military continues Guam build-up
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Guam’s indigenous people ‘feel less safe’ over US military build-up

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June 6, 2023
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The Melanesian Spearhead Secretariat office in Port Vila
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West Papuan ‘provisional’ government backs full membership of MSG

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Kamahl Santamaria at Al Jazeera
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Teremoana Maua-Hodges
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Fifteen Pasifika people on NZ King’s Birthday Honours List

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June 5, 2023
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Former NZ prime minister Jacinda Ardern
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South Australian MPs rally against the draconian new anti-protest law
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Hostage pilot Philip Mehrtens
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Wenda calls on Papuan rebels to free NZ pilot ‘unconditionally’

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June 3, 2023
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Transparency International PNG spokesperson Peter Aitsi
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Transparency PNG calls for further charges over ‘worrying’ Paraka case

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June 3, 2023
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Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka
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June 3, 2023
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Obituary: Tui Rererangi Walsh O’Sullivan, the ‘flying bird in the sky’

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June 2, 2023
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Pacific verdict on COP29
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COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"
Asia Report

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In the Eye of the Storm
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Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors
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How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

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CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
Coronavirus

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent
Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
Coronavirus

Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence

1News political editor Jessica Mutch-McKay talks to the main party leaders in last night's debate
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NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all
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NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still...

The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants
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Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

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Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire
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Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

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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Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

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West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence
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27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

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Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016
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Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

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Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)
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Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern
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