Regional
Key backs territories joining Forum
Wednesday 4 May 2016 | Published in Regional
FRENCH POLYNESIA – New Zealand’s support for French Polynesia and New Caledonia joining the Pacific Islands Forum is a significant development, according to the director of the New Zealand Institute for Pacific Research.
Blame game over self immolations
Wednesday 4 May 2016 | Published in Regional
NAURU – Australia’s Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says refugee advocates are to blame for two refugees setting fire to themselves on Nauru in the past week.
Australia staunch on immigration policy
Wednesday 4 May 2016 | Published in Regional
AUSTRALIA – Australia’s Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has hit out at “advocates and others” who he believes are pressuring refugees to “behave in a certain way”, saying the Federal Government will not be persuaded to change its border protection policies.
Anti-fraud office must reopen
Wednesday 4 May 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea’s Police Commissioner says he will follow a recommendation from the country’s Supreme Court to reopen the anti-corruption unit he closed last month.
Ukeleles replace the organ at Bill Sevesi's funeral
Tuesday 3 May 2016 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – Family and friends gathered in New Zealand on Monday to celebrate the life of renowned musician Bill Sevesi where the organ was replaced by the ukulele at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Parnell.
Wreck of Cook's Endeavour found
Tuesday 3 May 2016 | Published in Regional
USA – Researchers believe they have found the wreck of HMS Endeavour, which carried Captain James Cook on his exploration of the Pacific.
PNG's opposition leader 'suspended'
Tuesday 3 May 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea’s opposition leader’s 2012 election victory has been stayed by the National Court.
Mega-resort planned on remote island
Tuesday 3 May 2016 | Published in Regional
MICRONESIA – Plans to build a Chinese “mega-resort” on a remote Micronesian island have local politicians fearing residents will be shunted from their homes and “reduced to just doing cultural dances” for tourists.
Medical treatment criticised
Tuesday 3 May 2016 | Published in Regional
NAURU – The Iranian refugee who died after setting himself on fire at the Nauru detention centre was without doctor’s care for two hours at the medical facility and lay in agony for a further eight hours in Nauru’s hospital before morphine was administered, his wife says.
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.
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