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What the world can learn from the Pacific
Many of the challenges Pacific peoples have navigated for generations are now be...
Drugs being held as evidence go missing in Fiji
Fijian police are investigating after illegal drugs being held as evidence in tw...
Climate change legal precedents begin to unravel Pacific culture's emerging rights
Rising seas and environmental degradation are disrupting traditional Pacific pra...
Andrew Mathieson 28 Sep 2026
NRL club claims Samoan player contributed to training death
A Samoan rugby league player who died of heat exhaustion at pre-season training...
Tom Wark (AAP) 5 Aug 2026
Australia's rejection of UN recommendations fuels First Nations justice concerns

Australia's response to international scrutiny of its human rights record has been condemned by Indigenous legal advocates, who say the federal government is ignoring mounting evidence of systemic rac...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jul 7, 2026
Indigenous advocates among ten Australians filing case at United Nations over coal and gas exports

Ten Australians have filed a legal case with the United Nations claiming Australia' federal government is violating their human rights by continuing to support coal and gas companies to fuel climate e...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jun 23, 2026
Australia accused of ignoring human rights obligations on Indigenous children

The overrepresentation of Indigenous children in the criminal justice system "reflects systemic and structural racial discrimination", the United Nations has said. Despite making up only 6.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan May 7, 2026
US state launches investigation of forced sterilisation of Native American women

In the 1970s, the US agency that provides health care to Native Americans sterilised thousands of women without their full and informed consent, depriving them of the opportunity to start or grow fami...

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Associated Press Feb 24, 2026
Native patrols continue in Minneapolis as community tracks ICE sightings

Native American patrols are continuing across south Minneapolis as community members track ICE activity and share sightings in encrypted chats.

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Feb 20, 2026
PNG Attorney General targets alleged funders of highlands tribal warfare

Papua New Guinea Attorney-General Pila Niningi has claimed civic leaders, businessmen and members of parliament from Enga province have been providing money to supply weapons and ammunition for warrin...

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Feb 13, 2026
Dances With Wolves actor convicted of sexual assault

A Nevada jury has convicted Sicangu Lakota actor Nathan Chasing Horse of sexually assaulting a minor. The jurors in Las Vegas on Friday found the Dances With Wolves actor guilty of multiple charges of...

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Jessica Hill Feb 2, 2026
On Invasion Day, Australia cannot dodge the truth in Geneva

Our people have always told the truth about what January 26 means. Dispossession. Violence. Stolen Land. Stolen children. Attempted cultural and linguistic erasure.

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Nerita Waight Jan 26, 2026
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