Regional
Female refugee sets herself on fire
Tuesday 3 May 2016 | Published in Regional
NAURU – A 21-year-old female refugee has set herself alight on Nauru in what is the second attempted suicide by self-immolation on the island in a week.
A heavy-handed act of regression
Monday 2 May 2016 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC VIEWPOINT By Geoffrey Robertson QC Human Rights lawyer
Australian sentenced to 14 years in Fiji
Monday 2 May 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – An Australian man has been sentenced to 14 years’ jail in Fiji after being found guilty of possessing nearly 50 kilograms of cocaine.
Aid deal must be maintained
Monday 2 May 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Manus Island MP Ronnie Knight said he expects Australia to keep funding projects it agreed to as part of the refugee processing detention centre deal.
Lawyer seeks to make Australia liable
Monday 2 May 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – The lawyer representing hundreds of asylum seekers on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island will this week seek a court order to make Australia legally liable for those at the detention centre.
Room for Manus men on Nauru
Monday 2 May 2016 | Published in Regional
NAURU – Nauru has room for the 850 men from Manus Island’s detention centre, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says, but he is stressing the Australian Government remains in talks about the options available in Papua New Guinea.
Quake felt widely in Vanuatu
Saturday 30 April 2016 | Published in Regional
VANUATU – Disaster authorities in Vanuatu’s Malampa province say over 1000 people are returning to their villages after this Thursday’s magnitude 7.0 earthquake.
2017 Vanuatu Mini Games in jeopardy
Saturday 30 April 2016 | Published in Regional
VANUATU – The Pacific Games Association of Vanuatu is threatening to ask the Pacific Games Council to rescind its 2017 10th anniversary Pacific Mini Games hosting commitment if urgent action by the government is not taken to release promised funding.
Fate of Manus detainees remains unknown
Saturday 30 April 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – On Monday, PNG’s supreme court rule detention of asylum seekers and refugees to be unconstitutional and illegal, and ordered its end “forthwith”.
Islanders occupy government grounds
Saturday 30 April 2016 | Published in Regional
NORFOLK ISLAND – Protesters against the Australian government’s decision to take control of Norfolk Island are occupying the grounds of the former legislative assembly and refusing to leave.
Omid honoured as a martyr
Saturday 30 April 2016 | Published in Regional
NAURU – A human rights group said Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has “blood on his hands” after the refugee who set himself alight in protest on Nauru died on Thursday.
Refugee dies after self-immolation
Saturday 30 April 2016 | Published in Regional
BRISBANE – An Iranian refugee who set himself on fire at the Nauru detention centre has died in a Brisbane hospital, Australia’s Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has confirmed.
Ruling a good day for human rights
Friday 29 April 2016 | Published in Regional
The PNG court’s ruling on the Manus Island detention centre won’t bring Australia’s disgraceful offshore detention programme to an end, but it is a solid blow and offers hope of further change, writes ABC columnist Michael Bradley.
Quake sparks tsunami alert
Friday 29 April 2016 | Published in Regional
VANUATU – A tsunami warning issued after a shallow magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck Vanuatu was cancelled by mid-morning yesterday.
850 asylum seekers left in limbo
Friday 29 April 2016 | Published in Regional
AUSTRALIA – Australia’s Federal Government says Papua New Guinea is ultimately responsible for 850 asylum seekers and refugees on Manus Island, following a Supreme Court ruling.
Australia ill-prepared for closure
Friday 29 April 2016 | Published in Regional
AUSTRALIA – The fate of 850 asylum seekers on Manus Island hangs in the balance as Australia’s Immigration Minister Peter Dutton struggles to explain why the government was ill-prepared for the detention centre’s closure.
Government's numbers keep chiefs in the cold
Thursday 28 April 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – Fiji’s parliament has voted out a petition seeking to reinstate the Great Council of Chiefs.
US upgrading military bases on Guam
Thursday 28 April 2016 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC REPORT By Ben Bohane ABC Correspondent
Future for PNG detainees in limbo
Thursday 28 April 2016 | Published in Regional
AUSTRALIA – The future of 850 men being held in the Manus Island detention centre remains in limbo, as senior Australian ministers provide conflicting advice on whether the detainees have any hope of being resettled in Australia.
Refugee sets himself on fire
Thursday 28 April 2016 | Published in Regional
NAURU – A refugee remains in a critical condition after setting himself on fire on Nauru, in what the Nauruan Government has described as a “political protest”.
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