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Drugs being held as evidence go missing in Fiji
Fijian police are investigating after illegal drugs being held as evidence in tw...
Bougainville residents rescued after more than two months lost at sea
Three Bougainville residents have been rescued after spending 70 days lost at se...
Andrew Mathieson 30 Sep 2026
Pacific states urge Jakarta to allow UN access to West Papua at New York general assembly
Pacific leaders used their address at the 81st session of United Nations general...
Andrew Mathieson 29 Sep 2026
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
Pacific leadership elevates regional priorities onto global agenda
Pacific Islands Forum leaders travelled to New York to stand together as a unifi...
Andrew Mathieson 25 Sep 2026
Malind-Anim Indigenous people lose West Papuan forest court battle under Indonesian law

A court has rejected the Malind-Anim Indigenous community's legal challenge to protect a West Papuan ancestral forest from a planned agricultural development.

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Sep 24, 2026
From gaming to the stars for first Sāmoan physics PhD graduate

Dr Sean Richards has become the first known Sāmoan to graduate with a PhD in Physics from Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland, after an academic journey that began with plans to work in v...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Sep 23, 2026
Pacific nations unite ahead of global biodiversity talks

Fourteen Pacific Island countries have come together in Fiji to develop a coordinated regional position ahead of the 17th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Sep 23, 2026
Chinese miner pays exorbitant price to take control of PNG mines

A Chinese state-backed company has spent more than $A1 billion to acquire the mines and port facilities on three of Papua New Guinea's islands.

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Sep 22, 2026
Why Solomon Islands PM had to apologise to Albanese

A comprehensive treaty between Australia and the Solomon Islands would be transformational for the broader Pacific region, Anthony Albanese has declared.

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Andrew Brown (AAP) Sep 22, 2026
Amnesty International demands an end to killings in West Papua

Amnesty International is appealing tor all armed organisations to lay down their guns and stop the killing of West Papuan civilians in the occupied Indigenous territory.

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Sep 21, 2026
Samoan tenor takes family story to international audiences

Samoan tenor Pene Pati will take his music and family story to North American audiences when the documentary 'Tenor: My Name is Pati' screens in Vancouver and San Francisco next month.

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Sep 18, 2026
Latest figures on West Papuan deaths tell a grim story

Indonesia's National Commission on Human Rights has counted 109 people have officially been killed or seriously injured in violence from the ongoing armed conflict across the West Papua territory in t...

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Sep 18, 2026
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