Tag: Australia

ANALYSIS: By Melissa Conley Tyler, The University of Melbourne and Andrea Fahey, Australian National University Today is election day in Timor-Leste, when voters are deciding...

By Lawrence Fong and Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape is still confident of delivering the PNG-US Defence Cooperation...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist US President Joe Biden will cut out his historic trip to Papua New Guinea -- and also to Australia...

Asia Pacific Report Free Papua Organisation (OPM) leader Jeffrey Bomanak has appealed to US President Joe Biden for a “proactive role” in ending Indonesia’s “unlawful...

ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva At a time when the West has weaponised human rights, the United Nations body that promotes freedom of expression...

By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea’s airspace will be closed for four hours with tight security for when US President Joe Biden...

ANALYSIS: By James Mehigan, University of Canterbury The coronation of King Charles III is an ideal time for Australia and New Zealand to take stock...

By Aisha Azeemah in Suva Post Fiji Ltd continues to engage legal services both locally and in Australia in order to recover approximately $9.6 million...

Asia Pacific Report The Australia West Papua Association has condemned an Indonesian crackdown on a peaceful Papua self-determination rally in Bali at the weekend after...

By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby Prime Minister James Marape has urged armed captors to free the remaining four hostages which includes an Australian-based New...

PNG Post-Courier As day five dawned in Papua New Guinea's kidnapping drama, the family of one of the four hostages captives -- one of three...

PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinean security forces have been authorised to use the full force of the law to secure the four captives being held...

ANALYSIS: By Camellia Webb-Gannon, University of Wollongong “Phil Mehrtens is the nicest guy, he genuinely is -- no one ever had anything bad to say...

BOOK CHAPTER: By Nicky Hager Whistleblower Owen Wilkes was a tireless and formidable researcher for the Pacific, peace and disarmament. Before the internet, he combed...

The Sunday Bulletin Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape says it is very disappointing that foreign-owned media in the country continue to run “fake...

ANALYSIS: By Dominic O'Sullivan, Charles Sturt University When Fijians elect a new parliament on December 14, it is likely their votes will be counted fairly...

OPEN LETTER: The Ōtepoti Declaration by the Indigenous Caucus of the Nuclear Connections Across Oceania Conference On the 61st anniversary of the first raising of...

ANALYSIS: By Htwe Htwe Thein, Curtin University The fate of Myanmar has major implications for a free and open Indo-Pacific. An undemocratic Myanmar serves no one’s...

ANALYSIS: By Jamie Wall, RNZ sports writer The Blacks Ferns 41-17 win over the Wallaroos on the field at Auckland's Eden Park last night was...

RNZ Pacific Senior government and military leaders from the United States, New Zealand, Australia and Japan are in Honiara to mark the 80th anniversary of...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk The Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the censoring of the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation (SIBC) as an "assault...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The Australia West Papua Association (AWPA) has condemned the absence of West Papua in last week's Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) official...