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Pacific women leaders meet in Suva to shape regional agenda
Pacific women leaders, ministers and government representatives have gathered in...
Rebekah Rasmussen 5 Jun 2026
Winston Peters wants to be Pacific's Trump whisperer
New Zealand is courting the United States to return as a major donor and diploma...
Ben McKay 2 Mar 2026
Pacific's top issues on agenda at leaders-only retreat
With a climate resilience fund and a high-level agreement on regional peace in t...
Poppy Johnston 11 Sep 2025
Australia affirms Vanuatu support after treaty delayed
Top Australian ministers are confident a security treaty can be signed with Vanu...
Pacific unity stressed at keystone regional summit
Regional unity at a time of rising competition between major powers has been str...
Poppy Johnston 10 Sep 2025
PM confident of Vanuatu pact despite treaty delay

Australia's ties with Vanuatu will go to "the next level", despite the two countries failing to sign off on a long-awaited security and economic agreement, the prime minister says.

Young Pacific leaders prompt World Court's climate reset

The climate justice movement's biggest win since the Paris agreement and its influence on major emitters, including Australia, is about to be put to the test.

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Poppy Johnston Sep 8, 2025
Climate finance crunch time at Pacific leader talks

Pacific leaders are set for a more intimate gathering than usual at key annual talks, but excluding some heavyweight nations may prove counterproductive to goals of luring crucial funding for the regi...

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Poppy Johnston Sep 8, 2025
Australia-China jockeying heightens Pacific forum mess

A Sino-Australian tit-for-tat in Honiara as the two nations try to diplomatically out-muscle one another in the lead-up to this year's Pacific Islands Forum has been described as almost comical.

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Dominic Giannini Sep 6, 2025
Solomons PM blocks US, China from Pacific Islands Forum

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele says 21 donor countries, including the United States and China, will not be invited to the Pacific's top political meeting, a move that follows pressure...

Australia offers fresh Solomons aid ahead of Pacific Islands Forum Summit

Australia has announced $A11 million in support to improve roads in Solomon Islands as it prepares to host the Pacific Islands Forum leaders summit.

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Ben McKay Jun 27, 2025
Leaders pose ideas as New Caledonia mission wraps up

New governance arrangements are being canvassed for New Caledonia, France's Pacific territory which has been mired with violence. Leaders of four Pacific nations have finished a three-day fact-finding...

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Ethan James Oct 30, 2024
Australia, US not 'divvying up' Pacific policing

The United States insists it is not steamrolling and divvying up Pacific security with Australia but is working with partners to see where it best fits.

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Dominic Giannini Sep 3, 2024
Pacific Island Forum tweaks communique after China outburst

The Pacific Islands Forum secretariat has altered the communique from last week's summit in Tonga to remove an affirming reference to Taiwan, after an outburst from China.

Pacific First Nations people sound alarm on climate

On the sidelines of the frenetic Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting this week, there was calm. Moored on the Nuku'alofa wharf was a boat - the Uto ni Yalo - built both to honour and in the style of...

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Ben McKay Aug 31, 2024
No, Fiji’s PM not taken ill at Pacific Islands Forum

WHAT WAS CLAIMEDA photo shows Fiji's prime minister in medical distress shortly before being rushed to hospital. OUR VERDICTFalse. The prime minister was not in medical distress or taken to hospital.

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Tom Wark Aug 31, 2024
NZ backs Pacific Policing, commits to climate finance

New Zealand has decided to tip both for the Pacific Policing Initiative and the Pacific Resilience Facility. Chris Luxon wrapped up his first Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders Meeting as New Zealand...

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Ben McKay Aug 30, 2024
Tonga pulls off Pacific Islands Forum staging

Tonga has overcome predictions the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting would be marred by disorganisation or stoushes, all while living up to its 'friendly islands' nickname.

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Ben McKay Aug 30, 2024
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