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Many rangatahi get their first say in October’s local elections. The issues Aotearoa faces have changed recently adding more reasons that young people must defy turnout trends and information scarcity…

Fifty stolen election ballot boxes must be returned, Papua New Guinea police have told candidates in Lagiap.

The former finance minister won the second round of voting in an increasingly tense race to replace Boris Johnson.

Bougainville MP dies, PNG's Marape criticised for trip, and rugby chief takes blame for record loss

The government's gang crackdown has ignited opposition from both sides of the political spectrum but gained a thumbs-up from one of the country's foremost gang experts. Audio

Papua New Guinea Electoral Commissioner Simon Sinai has admitted that vote-buying and other corruption related offences happens and is expected in any election in PNG.

Papua New Guinea's caretaker prime minister James Marape has been re-elected as the MP for Tari-Pori in the country's Hela Province.

New climate change polling shows people are becoming less tolerant of those who build in harm's way, with the overwhelming majority expecting extreme flooding to increase. Video

A leftist opposition official has been shot dead by a man shouting support for far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, as violence increases ahead of Brazil's elections.

New Zealand may be more than a year away from the next election, but as far as the ACT Party is concerned, the campaign has already begun.

Speaking at the party's annual conference in Wellington, leader David Seymour said the investigation would look into whether the Covid-19 restrictions were always justifiable.

The New Zealand-Japan Society of Auckland says Shinzo Abe's assassination has sent shockwaves around the local community.

Call in PNG for changes in Electoral Commission operations after chaotic opening to poll; New Caledonia re-introduces measures to control Covid spread; nearly half of Nauru has had covid; New…

Election woes in Papua New Guinea continue to pile up with the sudden resignation today of a returning officer for Port Moresby Northeast and the indefinite suspension of voting in the National…

As Boris Johnson's tenure as UK prime minister comes to an end, the race is on to replace him with no clear favourite.

The British prime minister insists he plans to stay, despite the resignation of a stream of senior colleagues who say he is not fit to govern.

Frustrations are mounting in Papua New Guinea where an outdated electoral roll is resulting in voters all over the country being turned away at polling stations.

Voting in the Papua New Guinea general election has begun. Audio

New research has found Fijians are concerned whether there'll be a smooth transfer of power should the government lose in this year's general elections.

Voters will elect 118 members of parliament, including governors of the 22 provinces, from the 3600-plus candidates nominated.