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A draft referendum question on whether the Australia constitution should recognise the country's indigenous peoples has been revealed by the Australian PM.

French Senate delegation urges Paris to prove its impartiality, Tongan netballers praised by country's leader, and Samoa ecotourism book

Tauranga and the Western Bay of Plenty have been directed to fluoridate their water supplies but one council has serious concerns about it.

New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS movement has signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), which wants independence from Indonesia.

Liz Truss is leading polls of party members to replace Boris Johnson as Britain's Prime Minister - but who is she?

An assisted death at a hospital is being investigated by the Health and Disability Commissioner.

Attempted murder charges dropped after witnesses fail to show, Palika joins New Caledonia talks boycott, and Norfolk Islanders stand firm against increases

Three high-profile and popular mayors in the lower South Island are putting their jobs on the line in the October local elections by refusing to reject the government's controversial three waters…

Hospital staff in Niue isolate; US donates Covid-19 vaccines to Kiribati; and another New Caledonia independence figure rejects Paris talks.

Talks on New Caledonia's future statute are planned to be held in Paris in September, after last December's rejection of independence from France.

Rishi Sunak has emerged as the frontrunner to succeed Boris Johnson as Conservative leader and British prime minister, although the contest has a long way to go.

Russian missiles struck the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, far behind the frontlines, in an attack which Ukrainian officials called a war crime and said had killed at least 23 people.

Christchurch city councillors have met and voted to give the go-ahead to build the contentious $683m stadium. Video, Audio

Boost for water supplies in Kiribati, Samoa criminals try to sneak out, and Marianas has new covid subvariant

France's abolition of the status of an overseas minister has received mixed reactions in both France and its overseas territories.

Vanuatu's Parliament has shelved the controversial constitutional changes that Prime Minister Bob Loughman's Government wanted to push through.

Unprecedented result, French Polynesia's three seats in the French National Assembly won by Tavini Huiraatira Party.

A New Caledonian delegate has told the UN decolonisation committee that last year's referendum on independence from France has led the territory into a political and institutional impasse.

Work has begun in Paris towards a new statute for New Caledonia after three referendums on independence from France failed to give the Kanak people its expected emancipation.

Work has begun in Paris towards a new statute for New Caledonia after three referendums on independence from France failed to give the Kanak people its expected emancipation.

Sunday's voting was the first since the referendum on independence from France in December which was boycotted by the pro-independence FLNKS.

New Caledonia's first round of the French National Assembly election has seen surprise advances of the pro-independence FLNKS whose two candidates both made it to Sunday's run-off round.

Whangārei Mayor Sheryl Mai says the government needs to get a loud and clear message that her council would not be fluoridating its water unless the government pays.