Coups, corruption and lack of good governance: The origins of Fiji’s meth crisis
By Lusi Banuve
How did it get so bad right under our noses? That’s the question many in Fiji are struggling with, as the country...
INC-5 negotiations: Financial mechanism for proposed treaty under the microscope
Finance is often and always a thorny issue wherever multiple countries try to agree on anything.
On the fourth day of the fifth session of...
Passports for sale: Lessons for Nauru and Solomon Islands from Vanuatu’s EU rebuke
Vanuatu becomes first country to ever lose EU visa-free access after golden passport scheme poses security threat.
Commentary by Tess Newton Cain
Earlier this month Vanuatu...
Vanuatu to launch ICJ hearings on climate and human rights
By Nic Maclellan
It began five years ago, as an exercise amongst law students at the Emalus campus of the University of the South Pacific...
Top Australian criminal target Zhao thrived in Fiji despite high-level warnings
Fiji’s former prime minister and police chief appeared in public with a businessman tied to China’s Communist Party even after being briefed that he...
Plastics treaty negotiations update – Institutional arrangement, preamble, scope and principles
Delegates from Pacific countries have travelled far and wide this week to attend the fifth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding...
INC-5 negotiations update: We don’t need a weak treaty
What will it take for negotiators and delegates at the fifth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to come up with an international legally binding instrument on...
Beyond COP29 – From Despair to Determination
By Dr Satyendra Prasad, Senior Fellow – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Climate Lead for Abt Global
The just concluded COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan...
The Australia-Pacific bid to host UN climate talks in 2026 is in limbo. What...
By Wesley Morgan
Australia and Pacific Island nations had hoped to leave this year’s global climate talks in Azerbaijan having won a bid to host...
Community-driven Solutions for Environmental Stewardship: The GEF Small Grants Programme in Fiji and its...
As with many Small Island Developing States, Fiji faces the starkest impacts of climate change, including sea level rise, natural disasters and biodiversity loss.
But...
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Australia unveils $190 million security deal for Solomon Islands
Australia has struck a new security agreement with Solomon Islands to bolster the size of the Pacific island nation's police force.
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Proposed Solomon Islands constitutional amendment defeated, 14 MPs’ absent from voting
Solomon Islands government’s move to amend the constitution which proposed an extended timeframe to allow for the establishment of the Constituent Assembly was defeated...
Fist bumps as more than 130 Australians arrive home safe after surviving Vanuatu’s worst...
With a fist pump and tears of relief, Chantel Mara was visibly emotional as she stepped onto the tarmac at Brisbane international airport, finally...