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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
This Indigenous teen just became the youngest ever junior surfing world champion
Leihani Zoric is still riding the wave of celebrations for her historic, never-b...
Jarred Cross 29 Sep 2026
First Nations creative agency to support Ngali in Paris through Global Gateways program
Little Rocket — one of Australia's largest First Nations-owned and operated crea...
Phoebe Blogg 29 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 practices, eroding Indigenous cultural connections and severing their relationships with ancestral lands and oceans accordi...

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Sep 28, 2026
Pacific leadership elevates regional priorities onto global agenda

Pacific Islands Forum leaders travelled to New York to stand together as a unified regional voice at the 81st session of the United Nations general assembly this week.

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Sep 25, 2026
Sacred Bears Ears lands face mining claims after Trump cuts protections

Mining claims have been lodged across land removed from Bears Ears National Monument just two months after Tribal leaders warned President Donald Trump's cuts could expose sacred lands in Utah to reso...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Sep 24, 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
Inuit lifestyle set to be affected as Greenland accepts greater US militarisation

The latest agreement between the US Trump administration, Denmark and Greenland is likely to affect where Inuit people live, hunt, travel and possibly exercise its own self-government, a former Greenl...

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Sep 23, 2026
International program to connect Indigenous filmmakers across three countries

Indigenous filmmakers from Australia, Canada and New Zealand will have the opportunity to develop their projects and establish international partnerships through a new initiative launching in 2027.

Jackson Clark Jackson Clark Sep 22, 2026
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