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 Elders Voice: Statement on Climate Security
The Pacific Elders’ Voice reiterates that the primary security threat to the Pacific is climate change. This fact is clearly articulated in the Boe...
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....
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...
Pacific must hear our voices, but we must listen to theirs
Opinion by Jemima Garrett
For many who watched as China expanded its influence in the Pacific, the Labor announcement of an $8 million (US$5.7 million)...
French Polynesian mayors support safeguarding South Pacific Ocean and tradition
French Polynesian President Édouard Fritch recently committed to conserving 1 million square kilometers (386,000 square miles) of the ocean by creating a new large-scale...
Interim President Benny Wenda statement on West Papua: Indonesia must allow UN visit before...
I want to thank all the Pacific Elders for their recent statement supporting a visit to West Papua by the UN High Commissioner for...
Why Australia and the U.S care so much about China’s security pact with a...
By Julia Hollingsworth, CNN
When China announced it had inked a security pact with a tiny Pacific island nation this week, there was little...
A drop in the ocean? Organised crime dynamics in Pacific Island countries
By Tess Cain
Although Pacific Island countries do not experience high levels of criminality, shifts in transnational dynamics are changing the region’s organised crime landscape....
WWF-Pacific launches Great Sea Reef report
To better inform stakeholders on the health of the Southern Hemispheres third longest continuous reef system, the Status and trends of coral reefs and...
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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...