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Tuvalu calls for stronger UN support to tackle Pacific security threats
Tuvalu has called for stronger United Nations support to address growing securit...
Andrew Mathieson 21 Jul 2026
Grassroots communities share storytelling to preserve environmental treasures
A cross-cultural storytelling project facilitated by the University of Newcastle...
Phoebe Blogg 18 Jul 2026
Fiji Government funds evacuation centre for Tamavua Village
The Fiji Government has begun work on a $1. 78 million evacuation centre for Tam...
Rebekah Rasmussen 16 Jul 2026
Seed donation supports household food security in Fiji
UN Women has donated FJ$10,000 worth of seeds to support home gardening and impr...
Rebekah Rasmussen 16 Jul 2026
Tonga brings traditional knowledge to television weather forecasts
Tonga's weather service has begun incorporating traditional environmental indica...
Rebekah Rasmussen 16 Jul 2026
Fijian mine workers receive compensation after 33-year dispute

Former Vatukoula gold mine workers and their families have received compensation more than three decades after a strike over poor pay and working conditions began Fiji's longest-running industrial dis...

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Rebekah Rasmussen Jul 16, 2026
Australia backs Aotearoa getting aboard Pacific peace train

The foreign minister has welcomed plans by Aotearoa / New Zealand to join a defence alliance between Australia and Fiji. The Ocean of Peace Alliance was signed on Monday by Australian Prime Minister A...

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Andrew Brown (AAP) Jul 10, 2026
Marshall Islands talks tough to Chinese government over Pacific missile testing

The Marshall Islands has condemned China's recent submarine-launched missile test nearby in the Pacific Ocean, adding that its Micronesian region cannot be treated as a site for military signalling.

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Jul 10, 2026
Fiji targets meat imports with sheep and goat farming push

Fiji's Farmer Training on Small Ruminant Husbandry and Management has been launched to boost sheep and goat production, reduce meat imports and strengthen rural livelihoods.

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Rebekah Rasmussen Jul 10, 2026
Fiji helps steer global plastics treaty talks

Fiji is helping steer global negotiations on how countries will finance and deliver a legally binding treaty to address plastic pollution, including in the marine environment.

Pacific climate forum to become biennial platform

The Pacific Innovation Forum on Climate and Environment (PIFCE) will become a biennial regional platform after its inaugural gathering in Vanuatu closed with a regional commitment to strengthen climat...

Scholar centres I-Kiribati knowledge, women and cultural resilience

As Kiribati Language Week is celebrated across Aotearoa / New Zealand this week, University of Auckland doctoral candidate Roi Burnett hopes people will look beyond familiar narratives about rising se...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jul 6, 2026
Indonesian human rights commission demands review of military operations over West Papuan deaths

Indonesia's National Commission on Human Rights has called on the country's President, Prabowo Subianto, to conduct a review of security operations for possible new rules of engagement for military an...

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Jul 6, 2026
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