Regional
Doctors against holding children in detention
Tuesday 13 October 2015 | Published in Regional
MELBOURNE – Doctors from Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) have called on Australia’s Federal Government to end the practice of keeping children in detention, saying they cannot effectively treat them.
Advise sought before airlifting raped refugee
Saturday 10 October 2015 | Published in Regional
canberra – The Australian government will move a pregnant rape victim from Nauru to Australia for medical treatment if doctors advise it, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says.
Aggressive Tonga taken down by All Blacks
Saturday 10 October 2015 | Published in Regional
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE – For 50 minutes, the All Black magic was only sparingly in evidence in front of a 50,985 sell-out crowd at St James’ Park, the world champions being held to a 14-3 half-time lead in their final Rugby World Cup Pool C match by a hugely spirited Tongan side.
Island nations form 'The Vulnerable 20'
Saturday 10 October 2015 | Published in Regional
LIMA – Finance ministers from the 20 countries most vulnerable to climate change have formed a group to call for greater access to climate finance for adaptation and mitigation in the face of the most devastating effects of global warming.
Three Pacific nations still possess death penalty
Saturday 10 October 2015 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – The United Nations has drawn attention to the three Pacific nations that still possess the death penalty in law.
'Open centre' welcomed by asylum seekers
Saturday 10 October 2015 | Published in Regional
YAREN – An Australia-based refugee advocate says asylum seekers he has spoken to on Nauru have welcomed the Nauru government’s announcement to open the detention centre there with both “joy and trepidation”.
Medical centre arrives on Tanna
Saturday 10 October 2015 | Published in Regional
Lenakel – A medical centre one step closer to helping the people of Tanna, after two containers full of donated goods arrived on the remote Vanuatu island from New Zealand this week.
Vanuatu MPs guilty on bribery charges
Saturday 10 October 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT VILA – A Vanuatu court has found the nation’s deputy prime minister Moana Carcasses and 13 other government MPs guilty of bribery charges.
Do or die as Tonga takes on the All Blacks
Friday 9 October 2015 | Published in Regional
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE – It’s official – Tonga need to either beat the All Blacks today or draw with a bonus point to qualify directly for the 2019 World Cup.
Dictatorship in guise of democracy
Friday 9 October 2015 | Published in Regional
SUVA – Fiji’s opposition leader, Ro Teimumu Kepa, has strongly criticised the country’s leadership, saying Fiji is now a “dictatorship in the guise of democracy”.
Refugee policy tested in court
Friday 9 October 2015 | Published in Regional
SYDNEY – Australia’s highest court has listened to the arguments and has reserved its judgement in a case that challenges the constitutionality of Canberra’s offshore detention of asylum seekers in the Pacific.
Backtracking on refugee processing
Friday 9 October 2015 | Published in Regional
YAREN – The Nauruan government is backtracking somewhat on its commitment to process 600 refugee claims “within the week”, saying about 400 will be completed by Sunday but others may not be concluded for several weeks.
Drawn out refugee processing 'unnecessary'
Friday 9 October 2015 | Published in Regional
What are we to make of the news that Nauru has lifted all restrictions of movement on asylum seekers and promised to finalise their refugee claims within a week? Not as much as you’d think, so far as the asylum seekers are concerned, comments Dr Joyce Chia, a senior policy officer at the Refugee Council of Australia.
Diplomatic immunity stymies car crash inquiry
Friday 9 October 2015 | Published in Regional
SUVA – Fiji’s police commissioner says a recent incident involving a South African diplomat is now out of police hands and is a matter between the foreign ministries of both countries.
Fraud squad cops get jobs back
Friday 9 October 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – Two senior fraud squad members, recently sacked by the Commissioner of Police in Papua New Guinea, have their jobs back for now.
Raped refugee refused right to abortion
Thursday 8 October 2015 | Published in Regional
YAREN – Australia is refusing to grant an abortion to a Somali woman who was raped after Canberra sent her to Australia’s asylum seeker detention camp on Nauru.
Pacific to gain from FFA's new-look centre
Thursday 8 October 2015 | Published in Regional
HONIARA – Fisheries surveillance work at the Pacific’s Regional Fisheries Surveillance Centre (RFSC) in the Solomon Islands has been refreshed with a high-tech makeover thanks to a two-month A$100,000 refurbishment funded by Australia.
'The matters are unrelated'
Thursday 8 October 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s chief secretary has formally requested the dismissal of a chief magistrate for misconduct, leading to opposition claims it has weakened the nation’s democracy.
Children dying from food shortages
Thursday 8 October 2015 | Published in Regional
PANDUAGA – Children in remote areas of Papua New Guinea are dying as a result of food shortages caused by frost and worsening drought, villagers hve told the ABC.
Priority shift needed for climate financing
Thursday 8 October 2015 | Published in Regional
WELLINGTON – The director of the NGO Caritas Aotearoa, Julianne Hickey, says New Zealand is not prioritising the people most in need with its climate financing in the Pacific.
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