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Fiji Home Affairs Minister Pio Tikoduadua
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Bikini Atoll descendant Sosylina Jibas-Maddison
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Why a royal princess from the Pacific is living in Arkansas

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Fiji Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation Lynda Tabuya and her assistant minister Sashi Kiran
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Women ministers spell out their plan to ‘rebuild Fiji as it...

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Governor Powes Parkop, city chief of PNG's capital Port Moresby
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Port Moresby governor Parkop stable and recovering after cardiac scare

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December 28, 2022
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Fiji lawyer Imrana Jalal
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Fiji lawyer Imrana Jalal’s warning: ‘No victimisation or targeted prosecutions’

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December 28, 2022
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No time to waste – Fiji’s Rabuka starts work on 100-day...

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A hīkoi in Dargaville was held amid the stoush between Kaipara Mayor Craig Jepson and Māori ward councillor Pera Paniora
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Professor Pal Ahluwalia
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More than half of Afghanistan's population rely on humanitarian aid
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Helen Clark condemns Taliban ban on female foreign aid workers

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December 27, 2022
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Professor Pal Ahluwalia on his deportation flight in 2021
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Exiled USP chief, Dr Lal now free to enter Fiji, says...

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December 26, 2022
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Deputy Prime Minister Professor Biman Prasad
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Existing ‘good policies’ to carry on, says Fiji Deputy PM...

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The newly elected prime minister of Fiji Sitiveni Rabuka
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December 24, 2022
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Sodelpa board member Tanya Waqanika
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December 23, 2022
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Sodelpa's vice-president Anare Jale (left) and Professor Biman Prasad of the National Federation Party and the People's Alliance leader Sitiveni Rabuka (right).
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Sodelpa joins Fiji coalition with Rabuka’s Alliance in split vote

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Commissioner Brigadier-General Sitiveni Qiliho
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‘Incitement’ complaint against top FijiFirst official handed on to CID

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Tahitian pro-independence Oscar Temaru leader
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Incoming Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka on TVNZ News
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December 23, 2022
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Sodelpa leaders announce coalition partner
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December 22, 2022
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Professor Steven Ratuva
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Pacific verdict on COP29
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Asia Report

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

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

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
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Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all
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The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants
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"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"
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West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence
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