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Cook Islands passport proposal
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Top cop position advertised
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Police need numbers and bigger budget
9 December 2024
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10 December 2024
Solid and Hazardous Waste Bill referred to Parliament committee
10 December 2024
DPM defends CIIC finance and travel policies
6 December 2024
Cook Islands has its first mosque
14 November 2024
CI Muslim opens up about her faith and journey
16 November 2024
RAC to address mosque legality
19 November 2024
I don’t expect much change: PM Brown on US Elections
6 November 2024
Fifth weekly Sydney flight to Rarotonga announced
23 October 2024
CIIC directors seek $350,000 in damages over defamatory claims
21 October 2024
Man found guilty of rape, burglary
24 September 2024
Tenants face water bill burden
8 October 2024
Concerns over Minister’s role in inmate work releases: PAC
5 October 2024
Tourism contribution set to surpass half-billion dollar mark
25 September 2024
Parliament Clerk sparks outrage over deep sea mining statement
23 September 2024
Deep sea dilemma: Cook Islanders weigh the cost of mineral riches
21 September 2024
Anxiety on the rise: Cook Islands faces mental health challenge
7 September 2024
Cook Islands deep sea mining poll sparks controversy
7 September 2024
MCI rejects ‘dark fleet’ label
3 August 2024
Rising seas, rising costs: Climate impacts on Cook Islands economy
2 September 2024
Inflation eases but concerns remain
31 August 2024
Prime Minister defends $659,000 MPs travel bill
23 August 2024
Taxpayers foot $659,000 bill for MPs travel and allowance
22 August 2024
Corruption report exposes ‘bribe and sexual favours’
17 January 2023
PM Brown eager to hand over Forum chair role to Tonga
13 August 2024
Challenging ‘rape culture’
8 July 2024
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Government ready to assist Vanuatu community fundraising
Cook Islands Government has expressed its willingness to assist Rarotonga’s Vanuatu community in their fundraising efforts following the recent devastating earthquake in Port Vila.
Fears for families as Vanuatu reels from deadly earthquake
The devastating 7.3-magnitude earthquake that struck Vanuatu on Monday, claiming the lives of at least 14 people and injuring more than 200, has sent shockwaves around the world, with Ni-Vanuatuans residing in Rarotonga praying for the safety of their loved ones at home.
Police seek to improve interview protocols
FIJI – Pilot projects to improve access to justice for police suspects will start in Fiji in November as the Pacific nation looks to bring about change in its police culture.
Pristine Pacific? Or great big rubbish dump
PACIFIC – Not all trash ends up at the dump. An estimated eight million metric tons of plastic enters the oceans worldwide in a typical year.
Pacific Games preparations struggling
TONGA – Tonga’s preparations to host the 2019 Pacific Games are late and in trouble,the Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pohiva told the Tongan Parliament late last week.
'Greek tourists' stranded in Tonga
TONGA – Seven Georgians who arrived in Tonga as tourists on September 22 with allegedly stolen Greek passports, were arrested on Friday and charged with dealing with forged documents.
Despite exercise, Samoans get fatter
SAMOA – On a muggy day at Samoa’s Maninoa Beach, tired competitors in an ocean canoeing regatta take a break to let the kids expend some energy.
ABC Correspondent in PNG
I’m the only foreign journalist based in Papua New Guinea and I admire the sacrifices local journalists make for their jobs.
Ancient practices celebrate culture
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Some of Papua New Guinea’s most isolated villagers are being encouraged to celebrate their culture to balance the negative impacts of resource extraction and development.
'Bad things under the coconut trees'
SAMOA – Samoa’s Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi, blames what he calls uneducated parents for the growing number of children hawking goods in Apia at night.
'No worries' over escaped prisoners
SAMOA – Members of the public in Samoa should not panic about escaped prisoners on the run. So says Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi.
Tongan gays push for law change
TONGA – For the first time, Tonga’s homosexual and transgender community will call on government leaders to revise legislation in order to protect LGBTI people in the deeply conservative Christian country.
Nauru indicted by UN committee
NAURU – The United Nations has delivered a blistering indictment of Nauru and Australia’s failure to help children in detention-like conditions, especially those driven to attempt suicide and self-harm. It slammed the Nauru’s “limited capacity” to investigate allegations of sexual assault of children and its failure to follow up complaints while also severely criticising the harsh living conditions inside Australian’s regional processing centres. The Age newspaper reports among the UN’s concerns were a lack of clean drinking water, poor sanitation, the absence of a dedicated paediatrician and the reported use of illegal corporal punishment against children at the camps. The UN’s Committee on the Rights of the Child also found that Nauru has made no progress towards honouring a promise made last year to establish a human rights watchdog. The report identified “inhuman and degrading treatment, including physical, psychological and sexual abuse, against asylum seeking and refugee children”. The UN concluded that mental ill-health, including “feelings of hopeless and often suicidal ideation”, was exacerbated by prolonged uncertainty and poor living conditions inside the hot, humid camps. There were 410 people in detention on Nauru at the end of August, according to the Department of Immigration and Border Protection. The CRC issued its report based on hearings in Geneva, meetings with civil society groups, Nauru’s own submissions and a review of previously published literature. The committee urged Nauru and by extension, Australia to immediately remove asylum-seeking children and their families from the RPCs, and find “permanent, sustainable resettlement options” for recognised refugees, including reasonable access to employment. It also called on Nauru to ensure that staff working at the RPCs were adequately trained in the identification of vulnerable children and those at risk of self-harm, and to develop a system to ensure incidents of self-har
New Zealand child poverty of concern to UN
NEW ZEALAND– The UN has said in a damning report that it is deeply concerned about New Zealand’s persistently high rates of child poverty.
Fiji's Ratu Joni laid to rest
FIJI – Fiji’s former vice president, the Roko Tui Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi, has been buried on his home island of Bau.
Church stands by convicted rapist pastor
FIJI – A 75 year old leader and pastor of a breakaway church group in Fiji has been sentenced to 14 years 2 months imprisonment.
Therapeutic use of steroids claimed
NEW ZEALAND– Former All Blacks Dan Carter and Joe Rokocoko both had therapeutic exemptions to use the steroids detected in their urine, according to their agents.
Access to healing water improved
FIJI – Access to a water source in a Tailevu village in Fiji that has been deemed miraculous has been upgraded by authorities.
Detention of refugee kids slammed
UN report decries treatment of children on Nauru
Detention camp film projected on high commission
AUSTRALIA – A guerrilla screening of secretly obtained film footage showing an unprecedented view of Australia’s offshore refugee detention camps was projected on to the outside of the Australian high commission in central London on Wednesday night.
Guam torn by church sex abuse allegations
GUAM – Atop a lofty hill overlooking the ocean in the US territory of Guam, a residence for the governor and a ceremonial one for the archbishop sit together, a decades-old symbol of their seemingly equal power on an island where nearly everyone is Roman Catholic.
Free and equal Pacific promoted
Pacific campaign launched against homophobia and transphobia
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