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Australia eyes Philippines for refugees
Australian media reports say Canberra is in talks with the Philippines for a transfer of some of the refugees it earlier sent to Papua New Guinea.
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Australia keen on refugee settlement deals abroad
Australia's immigration minister Peter Dutton says Canberra is in negotiations to find new third party resettlement options for its refugees, whom Australia refuses to settle itself.
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Aus minister's climate quip draws ire of Pacific leaders
Australian cabinet minister Peter Dutton has been labelled morally irresponsible and arrogant after he was overheard quipping about the plight of Pacific countries facing rising sea levels from…
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Little movement on climate at Pacific Islands Forum
The Pacific Islands Forum in Port Moresby has concluded without unity on climate change, but with signs of a new approach to fisheries management.
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Forum leaders cool heat on climate change
Audio 11 Sep 2015The Pacific Islands Forum has ended without a firm stance on climate change to take to the international climate talks in December. Audio
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Palau says without solidarity, Forum efforts are wasted
The President of Palau Tommy Remengesau says the Pacific Islands Forum needs to come together on the issue of climate change.
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PNG to channel relief funding to Vanuatu, Tuvalu
Papua New Guinea has pledged US$1.8 million US dollars to Vanuatu for immediate disaster relief and recovery funding following the devastation from Cyclone Pam.
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PM rejects illegal spying claims
The Prime Minister has come out fighting against further claims of illegal mass surveillance by New Zealand spy agencies. Video, Audio
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NZ spying on Pacific 'growing'
Questions are being raised about the legality of what journalist Nicky Hager says is mass surveillance by New Zealand in the Pacific region. Audio
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WHO says diabetes dampening development
Audio 14 Nov 2014The World Health Organisation says disability from diabetes is having a huge negative impact on development in the Pacific Region and now affects over 40 per cent of adults in some nations. Audio
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Sport: Commonwealth Games success boost to Pacific Games
The success of Pacific athletes at the Commonwealth Games is having a flow-on effect for organisers of next year's Pacific Games in Port Moresby.
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Kiribati wins first Commonwealth Games gold
Kiribati weightlifter David Katoatau has won the country's first ever Commonwealth Games gold medal in Glasgow.
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Palau opens Forum with call for leaders to get to work
Audio 30 Jul 2014A Pacific leaders' summit has begun in Palau with its host calling for leaders to pull up their sleeves and get to work to protect the region's ocean and fisheries. Audio
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Aid landscape in the Pacific is changing
Aid spending has boomed in the Pacific over the past decade but almost all the island nations remain unlikely to graduate from being recipient countries. While on the global scale...
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Fiji regime hails new regional grouping
Fiji says it will only consider rejoining the Pacific Islands Forum, if key donors, Australia and New Zealand, quit the organisation. And Fiji has hailed the start-up of its new...
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Fiji regime hails new regional grouping
Audio 9 Aug 2013Fiji's regime underlines its opposition to Australia and New Zealand in the Pacific as regional leaders discuss the merits of the Pacific Islands Development Forum which has just completed its… Audio
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Red Cross expects staff to be in Marshall Islands for six months
The International Federation of the Red Cross which has launched a significant drought relief effort in the Marshall Islands expects to have staff there for six months. This is despite...
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Kiribati bids to join G77 grouping
Kiribati has asked to join the the Group of 77 in order to strengthen its position on the global stage. The country's president, Anote Tong, made the call at a...
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Asian group of nations at UN changes its name to Asia-Pacific group
The Asian group of nations at the United Nations has changed its name to the Asia-Pacific group. The change this week comes ahead of Ban Ki-moon becoming the first UN...
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Polynesian fisheries co-op formalised
A polynesian fisheries co-operative has been formalised, strengthening the voice of the Southern Pacific members within the Forum Fisheries Agency. The Te Vaka Moana Arrangement means a closer…
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Kiribati company says a few ruin reputation of many
A Kiribati company recruiting for overseas shipping companies insists that just a few I-Kiribati seamen are ruining the reputation of others who are hardworking and reliable. This comes after the...
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New Zealand names high commissioner for Kiribati
The New Zealand foreign minister, Winston Peters, says the next High Commissioner to Kiribati will be Robert Kaiwai. Mr Kaiwai, who has a background in environmental issues, was previously deputy...
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Solomon Islands to join seasonal employment scheme
Solomon Islands is to be included as a formal partner in an employment scheme set up to meet work shortages in New Zealand.
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Competition from Australia for rural workers
The head of the horticulture industry body says he is "a little disappointed" at Australia's decision to seek Pacific Island workers from some of the same countries as New Zealand.
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Uncertainty over Fiji/Forum meeting after Fiji boycott
A special Pacific Islands Forum meeting on Fiji has taken place despite no members of Fiji's interim administration being present. The Fiji Joint Working Group meeting went ahead in the...
