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Nauru-Australia Treaty: Strategic gain or ‘corrupt arrangement’?
By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific journalist
Refugee advocates and academics are weighing in on Australia's latest move on the Pacific geopolitical chessboard.
Canberra is ploughing A$100...
Michael Field: On saying sorry – who next? The Banabans?
COMMENT: By Michael Field of The Pacific Newsroom
Apologies are, more or less by custom, the end of things.
Say sorry, and don’t mention it again.
As...
Banaba Island: The land that died so others could live
SPECIAL REPORT: By Hele Christopher-Ikimotu
I am Banaban. I come from an ancestry of survivors and a once rich land.
However, Banaba died to make other...
From rags to riches to rags again – the Forum’s hidden...
ANALYSIS: By Dr Crosbie Walsh
Nauru hosts the Pacific Islands Forum -- whose membership includes Australia, New Zealand and 16 Pacific Islands nations -- from...




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