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Ben Bohane - 24 Aug 2023
The Islands Blocking Vanuatu-France Relations
President Macron promises to resolve a territorial dispute with Vanuatu, writes Ben Bohane in Port Vila. When French President Emmanuel Macron appeared at the Melanesian Arts Festival in Vanuatu recently, he received a rousing welcome from the crowd by speaking in the three official languages of Vanuatu: Bislama, French and English. “Let me tell you…
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Admin, H.E. John Ma’o Kali, CMG OBE - 16 Aug 2023
H.E. John Ma’o Kali at the Papua New Guinea Remembrance Day Service, 2023
His Excellency John Ma’o Kali’s speech at the Papua New Guinea Remembrance Day Service, Royal Military College Duntroon, 23rd July 2023. “Gutpela monin tru olgeta, daba namona iboumuai e rapaluga lugana namana maparami. I am truly thankful to God for giving you the urging to attend this cold winter day in July in this…
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Professor Mark Howden, Mahealani Delaney, ‘Ofa Ma’asi-Kaisamy - 30 Mar 2023
Pacific Islands are holding the front line of climate change, but this is a global fight
We know how to keep warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius and avoid the worst climate change impacts for Pacific Island nations. But we must act now, and action must be worldwide. This week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a new report, bringing together seven years of research on the global state of climate…
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Sinclair Dinnen - 8 Mar 2023
Plural Policing in the Pacific Islands
Can the plural qualities of Pacific Islands policing be harnessed to produce better security outcomes for all? While we commonly think of it as the domain of professional police officers, a broader conception of policing reveals a more complex and plural reality. If we take policing to include order maintenance, peacekeeping, rule & law enforcement,…
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Vehia Wheeler - 31 Jan 2023
Reflections on COP27: Why Indigenous peoples’ representation matters
A Tahitian PhD student shares her experience of seeing some Pacific territories represented by colonial countries at COP27. The Pacific region or Oceania, which starts from Asia in the east and expands all the way to the Americas in the West, covers one-third of the world. A third of the world is mostly a great,…
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Telusa Fotu Tu’i’onetoa - 21 Dec 2022
Is aid to Tonga reaching those who need it most?
When Tonga experienced a wave of disasters earlier this year, the world rallied in support, but the Tongan government and its international partners must work hard to ensure aid can reach those who need it most, Telusa Fotu Tu’i’onetoa writes. Tonga is one of the most natural disaster prone nations on earth. From October to…
