カテゴリー: New Caledonia
Australia’s un-nuanced support for French dominion is unhelpful in a region where decolonisation is unfinished businessKicking the can down the road is a time-honoured solution to deadlocks over statehood and identity: hoping time, consultation and mon…
Secessionists say they will take their campaign to third referendum in 2022Voters in the French territory of New Caledonia in the south Pacific have narrowly rejected – for a second time – a proposal to break away from Paris, choosing to remain loyal t…
Sunday’s vote could lay the foundations for the birth of a new nation in the Pacific after surprising support emerged in 2018 referendumIt’s the final week of campaigning and two flags fly above the competing rallies, concerts, and campaign meetings: t…
Covid-19-related developments throughout the Pacific Islands • Sign up to get this Coronavirus in the Pacific briefing delivered to your email every WednesdayThe total number of cases of Covid-19 infection listed by the World Health Organization for th…
Covid-19-related developments throughout the Pacific IslandsHere is the latest news about the Covid-19 outbreak across the Pacific, from Dan McGarry and Tess Newton Cain on Wednesday 10 June.The total number of cases of Covid-19 infection across the re…
Group left Papua New Guinea in canoe before Christmas and survivors were rescued almost 2,000km away a month laterFour people have been rescued after spending 32 days adrift in the South Pacific, after a tragic voyage that resulted in the deaths of eig…