Johnny Blades
Breaking refugees spirits: Australia's offshore processing
Prospects for refugees processed on Nauru and Manus Island in Papua New Guinea look bleaker than ever amid more accounts of depression and abuse at Australia's offshore detention camps. Audio
Prospects bleak for Nauru and Manus Island refugees
Since 2013, any unauthorised maritime arrival entering Australian waters is sent to Manus Island or Nauru, for processing and resettlement in a participating regional state but not Australia. While… Audio
Dateline Pacific morning edition for 22 July 2015
IOM helping PNG with climate change migrants; Manus Governor hopes for quicker refugee settlement; A former official involved in developing PNG's Torres Strait border arrangements defends them amid… Audio
Manus Governor hopes for quicker refugee settlement
The Governor of Manus in Papua New Guinea says people in his province have had their reputation tarnished unfairly through negative publicity about the asylum seeker processing centre there, and he… Audio
Former PNG official defends Torres Strait border arrangements
A former official who was involved in negotiating border arrangements between Papua New Guinea and Australia says they fairly recognise traditional rights of PNG people to the Torres Strait.. Audio
Dateline Pacific evening edition for 20 July 2015
The financial cost of a communications blackout in the Northern Marianas; a helicopter races to the rescue of a mother and her triplets in remote Papua New Guinea; the leaders of Polynesian countries… Audio
Vanuatu community tells story of attack at birth of independence
A New Zealand sociolinguist has helped a Vanuatu village in Hog Harbour, Santo, tell the story of the traumatic attack on their community during a flashpoint shortly after the country gained… Audio
Unease lingers over major project on PNG's Madang lagoon
There's increasing local resistance to the planned Pacific Marine Industrial Zone in Papua New Guinea's Madang province which, despite recent government statements that it is committed to the plan… Audio
PNA members urged to prepare for risks
The chief executive of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement Transform Aqorau says member states can't be complacent about the current surge in fisheries revenue and is urging them to prepare for risks.
…Dateline Pacific morning edition for 2 July 2015
Former governor says Madang riots result of multiple issues; Doctors urged to boycott Manus and Nauru centres; Tonga celebrates education during Coronation week; Norfolk group to seek UN help for self… Audio
Allegations of high-level money laundering in PNG
Papua New Guinea's prime minister Peter O'Neill has called for an investigation into allegations of high-level money laundering. Audio
The Melanesian Spearhead Group and West Papua
Radio New Zealand International's Johnny Blades on the recent decision by the MSG to allow Indonesia full membership while denying it to the indigenous Melanesian people of West Papua. Audio
Palau president defends burning illegal fishing boats
Palau's President has defended his country's policy of burning foreign vessels caught illegally fishing in their waters, as his government hopes to send a message to poachers that Palau will not… Audio
Australian govt scrambles to close offshore processing loophole
Australian govt scrambles to close offshore processing loophole Audio
Australian govt scrambles to legalise offshore processing
Australia's government is rushing through legislation to authorise it to detain people in a foreign country. Audio
