Dateline for 13 February 2020

Pacific climate activists have demonstrated outside the Australian Parliament, calling for the government to cut ties with the local Minerals Council; a Fijian student quarantined at a NZ military base says she is happy to be out of Wuhan - the Chinese epicentre of the coronavirus; Indonesian authorities are being urged to investigate the plight of West Papuan highlanders displaced by ongoing conflict; a vision of the Pacific united against corruption was released from last week's first Pacific Regional Anti Corruption Conference in Kiribati; the Solomon Islands Electoral Commission is planning to introduce limited preferential voting for the 2023 national general election.