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'This is our home': Wong's unity call to Pacific Isles
Australia and Pacific Island nations must team-up to counter China's growing reg...
Tess Ikonomou 3 Dec 2025
Australia makes bid for leaders' meeting in the Pacific
Australia must "step up" its environmental action as the nation pushes for a mee...
Tess Ikonomou 19 Nov 2025
New course needed for Bougainville development
The sole focus of Bougainville's leaders to secure independence from Papua New G...
Tess Ikonomou 2 Sep 2025
Australia, PNG go 'next level' through new defence deal
Australia and Papua New Guinea are set to announce negotiations will begin on a...
Tess Ikonomou 20 Feb 2025
Indigenous adults among four key target groups of new campaign to reduce vaping and smoking
A generation of Australians are being set up for a health "catastrophe" unless a...
Tess Ikonomou 12 Jun 2024
Free menstrual products for outback communities

Free pads and tampons will be given to remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory to help with cost of living pressures. The Albanese government on Tuesday announced it will provide $12.

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Tess Ikonomou Jun 12, 2024
Wong makes dash to Solomons to rebuild Pacific 'family'

Penny Wong has become the second senior minister to make the trip to the Solomon Islands within weeks for talks with the country's new Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele.

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Tess Ikonomou Jun 6, 2024
Dorinda Cox calls for independent oversight of police investigation after Perth murders

Independent oversight of an investigation into a double murder in Perth is needed, as violence against women in Australia reaches crisis point, Yamatji-Noongar senator Dorinda Cox says.

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Tess Ikonomou May 29, 2024
Australia flags more aid for PNG after fatal landslide

Australia will provide more aid to Papua New Guinea following a deadly landslide, with the true scale of the destruction yet to be realised. PNG's National Disaster Centre said more than 2000 people h...

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Tess Ikonomou May 28, 2024
Human rights vetting urged for Fiji defence treaty

A defence treaty between Australia and Fiji should include vetting processes for human rights violations, a parliamentary committee has been told.

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Tess Ikonomou May 21, 2024
Foreign minister Wong to lead bipartisan trip to Tuvalu

Penny Wong and opposition counterpart Simon Birmingham will travel to Tuvalu for talks on security and climate change. The foreign minister will lead the second bipartisan Pacific visit of the governm...

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Tess Ikonomou May 8, 2024
Translator of Dr Seuss books becomes 'mother of school'

At a community library in north-east Arnhem Land, Yalmay Yunupingu started translating Dr Seuss books into her local Yolngu language. She qualified as a teacher and with her late husband developed a b...

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Tess Ikonomou Jan 26, 2024
Voice defeat will impact human rights stance: advocate

Australia's ability to raise human rights issues abroad has been diminished by the Indigenous voice referendum defeat, a leading 'yes' campaigner says.

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Tess Ikonomou Oct 24, 2023
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