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Pacific
Cook Islands National Council of Women welcomes NZ High Commissioner
The Cook Islands National Council of Women (CINCW) welcomed New Zealand’s new high commissioner to the Cook Islands, Catherine Graham, at their office in Takuvaine yesterday.
PM Brown confident in Pacific Islands Forum leadership despite political change in Tonga
The sudden resignation of Tonga’s former prime minister Hu’akavameiliku Siaosi Sovaleni had left a temporary gap in the leadership of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), but Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown remains confident that the situation will soon stabilise.
Aid deal must be maintained
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
FIJI – Fiji’s parliament has voted out a petition seeking to reinstate the Great Council of Chiefs.
US upgrading military bases on Guam
PACIFIC REPORT By Ben Bohane ABC Correspondent
Future for PNG detainees in limbo
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
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”.
Closure will hurt economy
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill said the closure of the refugee processing centre on Manus Island would have a negative effect on the island’s economy and the government will work with Australia to minimise damage to businesses and workers.
PNG detention centre to close
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Peter O’Neill says the Manus Island regional refugee processing centre will be closed following a ruling from the country’s Supreme Court.
Thousands still struggling in Fiji
FIJI – Nearly 50,000 students in Fiji affected by Cyclone Winston still need replacement books and other learning material.
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