From China to climate and COVID: does Australia really care for the Pacific?
Opinion by Hamish McDonald
In the debacle of Canberra’s handling of the security agreement with China just signed by Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh...
Pacific Parliamentarians Alliance on Deep Sea Mining calls for more commitments to safeguarding our...
Pacific Parliamentarians Alliance on Deep Sea Mining (PPADSM) calls for more commitments to safeguarding our ocean from deep sea mining
The Pacific Parliamentarians Alliance on...
Tuvalu PM meets Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong
Tuvalu Prime Minister Kausea Natano met Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong for the first time on Thursday at the Istana, where they reaffirmed the...
Felled by its own Failures – How Australia’s inaction to reform logging in the...
By William Kadi and DIrk Heinz
We have watched these past few weeks as the evolving situation surrounding the Solomon Islands/China security pact has unfolded....
Freesoul Ltd fined $1 million by Fiji High Court for undertaking unauthorised developments at...
Freesoul Real Estate Development Limited has been fined $1million (US$500,000) by Fiji’s High Court in Suva for two counts of undertaking unauthorised developments at...
Scientists: Japan’s plan to dump nuclear waste into the Pacific Ocean may not be...
Independent scientists are questioning Japan’s plans to dump just over one million tonnes of nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean, following a review of...
More than one disaster a day looming without action on risk reduction, UN warns
Human activity and behaviour is contributing to an increasing number of disasters across the world, putting millions of lives in danger, together with a...
Australia has little credibility left in the Pacific
Opinion by Peter Dunn
The Solomon Islands' security pact with China is yet another worrying marker of Australia rapidly losing influence in the Pacific.
Unless...
New Zealand commits to climate financing
The New Zealand government has increased its climate finance to a billion dollars over the next four years, with the Pacific, including Fiji, receiving...
10 percent of Fiji’s debt owed to disasters: Economy Minister
Fijian Minister for Economy Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says some ten percent of Fiji’s debt burden is owed to climate disasters alone.
While speaking at the United...