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Australian Labor government moves to bar access to key political documents
Without any prior notice, the Albanese Labor government this week tabled in parliament a huge bill designed to further gut the already limited and severely eroded Freedom of Information (FOI) laws. In particular, facing growing social and...
Owner: International Committee of the Fourth International
East Micronesia Cable Lands in Kosrae, Set for November Launch
By Subsea Cables by Telecom Review September 3, 2025 Following successful landings in Kiribati and Nauru, the East Micronesia Cable has landed in Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), its final Pacific nation, with the international...
Owner: Wayne Nielsen
Pacific Islands focus: health, environmental, security and geopolitical updates
Calls to tackle violence against women in the Pacific region, efforts to alleviate the impacts of extreme heat, new guidelines to assist in protection of whales, and concerns about deep sea mining are among the topics covered in the latest edition...
Owner: Croakey Health Media Ltd
Pacific Islands News Roundup – August 22 – August 28, 2025
Editor’s Note: We are undergoing a web host migration process and may need to make necessary modifications to our format and frequency over the next several weeks. Thank you in advance for your understanding. Political Leadership and Regionalism,...
Owner: East-West Center & University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
As censure increases over war in Gaza, Israel finds support among Pacific Islands
After almost two years of war in Gaza, tens of thousands of deaths and now the reality of famine, Israel has found itself increasingly isolated on the world stage, with alliances that date back to the country’s founding at breaking point. Through...
Owner: The Scott Trust
Nauru expands Fiji connection
FIJI took a podium finish through Iris Bentley Fisher at the 2025 International Va’a Federation (IVF) World Distance Championships in Niteroi, Brazil. Fisher, 16, took bronze in the 12km race in the V1 Junior 16 category in her debut performance....
Owner: Front Page PTE Ltd
Charting a Zone of Peace in a militarised Pacific
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Te Ao Maori News
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Decades after World War II and forty years since the Treaty of Rarotonga, the Pacific is again at a crossroads: peace on its own terms, or the ambitions of powerful nations? Next week in Honiara, in the Solomon Islands, Pacific Islands Forum...
Owner: New Zealand Government & Te Putahi Paoho
Pacific Officials Gather For 32nd SPREP Meeting
DCIM\101MEDIA\DJI_0768.JPG More than a hundred Pacific government officials, partners, donors and stakeholders are gathering in Apia, Samoa, next week to discuss strategic issues pertaining to the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment...
Owner: Mataeliga Pio Sioa
Trump and Albanese have a little chat
MAN HAS PHONE CALL WITH ANOTHER MAN Hold the front page: Anthony Albanese has had a chat with Donald Trump. Just before midnight, the prime minister took to social media to reveal he’d had a conversation with the US president. And before anyone...
Owner: Eric Beecher
Australia helps Pacific islands respond to dengue outbreak
An Australian medical team and dengue test kits are part of the assistance from the Australia Government to Samoa and the Pacific to respond to the dengue outbreak. Australia is providing more than AU$1 million in assistance to respond to current...
Owner: Larry Fuss
Nauru leader says nation's future insured with growing trust fund
Nauru President David Adeang said the tiny Pacific island nation’s future is secured with the Nauru Intergenerational Trust Fund, which is currently inching toward a net value of close to half a billion dollars. “Our government is determined not...
Owner: Mar-Vic Cagurangan (Editor & Publisher)
Amid widespread condemnation of racist rallies, calls for action and allyship
Recent racist rallies around Australia and physical assaults at Camp Sovereignty in Naarm/Melbourne are taking a heavy toll on the mental health and wellbeing of many First Nations people and other affected communities. Health workers from...
Owner: Croakey Health Media Ltd
Chinese hospital ship "Silk Road Ark" sets sail for first overseas mission
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Xinhua News Agency
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FUZHOU, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy hospital ship "Silk Road Ark" departed Quanzhou in southeast China's Fujian Province on Friday morning for a humanitarian medical service mission to the South Pacific and...
Owner: Chinese Government
PNA Summit Focuses on Climate, Conservation and Control of Tuna Resources
FUNAFUTI, Tuvalu — “Our shared path to sustainable development and full control of our tuna fisheries is not just a vision; it is our collective responsibility to future generations,” Tuvalu Prime Minister Feleti Penitala Teo said Wednesday at the...
Owner: Islandtimes Palau
Defeating Australia’s far-right requires a political fight against the Labor government
Masses of people have responded with shock and horror to far-right rallies that were held across Australia on Sunday. Footage of participants chanting anti-immigrant and racist slogans, many of them draped in Australian flags, has been shared...
Owner: International Committee of the Fourth International
Immigration dominates debate in a hectic parliamentary week
The Prime Minister was taken to task this week by Labor MPs, including Ed Husic (pictured). Photo: Ed Husic Facebook. Federal parliamentarians were preoccupied with immigration issues this week, following protest marches across the nation on...
Owner: Region Group Pty Ltd
Australia passes law to speed up deportation of non-citizens to Nauru
SYDNEY - Australia on Sept 4 passed a law allowing faster deportation of non-citizens to third countries, paving the way to send hundreds of refugees denied visas because of criminal convictions to the tiny Pacific island of Nauru. Under a 30-year...
Owner: Ong Beng Seng & Singaporean Government
How France, Italy and the US are dealing with their migrant crises
The UK is among several countries exploring and implementing increasingly tough measures to tackle the numbers of migrant arrivals Countries across Europe and the rest of the world have been exploring and implementing increasingly tough measures...
Owner: Jonathan Harmsworth