カテゴリー: South Pacific
As the south Pacific nation votes this week, there is a move to make sure women are among those electedMotoralivoa Hilda Lini stands at the front door of Vanuatu’s parliament, wearing an elegant pink dress and customary pig tusks on her wrists, signify…
In Vanuatu, where cyclones regularly interrupt trade, we are watching the west’s collective panic with bemusementI’ve lived in the south Pacific island nation of Vanuatu for 16 years. Tropical weather regularly interrupts trade. Even when they’re hundr…
Experts say judgment is ‘tipping point’ that opens the door to climate crisis claims for protection It is unlawful for governments to return people to countries where their lives might be threatened by the climate crisis, a landmark ruling by the Unite…
The summer has seen another cyclone in Fiji and terrible fires in Australia. We don’t need to be scientists to know that something is very wrong hereAs the world rang in a new year, for Oceania, the images that marked the beginning of the decade weren’…
Storm and flood warnings issued as category two cyclone moves east towards TongaOne person was killed in Fiji and one was missing as tropical cyclone Sarai battered the country with strong wind and heavy rain, authorities said.The Fiji National Disaste…
Six-week state of emergency is lifted after disease killed 81 people and sickened more than 5,600 othersSamoa has lifted a six-week state of emergency after the infection rate from a measles outbreak that has swept the country started to come under con…
Dan McGarry of the Daily Post told at Brisbane airport the Vanuatu immigration service had barred him from flying back to the island countryThe media director of a Vanuatu newspaper whose visa renewal was refused this month has been barred from flying …
Niuean performers and a 97-year-old returned servicewoman steal the show on the first day of the couple’s week-long stay in AotearoaCharles and Camilla arrived in Auckland to great pomp but a group of Niuean dancers and a 97-year-old returned servicewo…
Vanuatu’s Daily Post has always held the government to account and will continue to do so, with or without me as editorOn Thursday, the Vanuatu government issued instructions that after 16 years living here and, despite having a Ni Vanuatu spouse and c…
Dan McGarry believes visa was rejected because of his paper’s critical coverage of government The Vanuatu government has refused to renew the work permit of its largest newspaper’s long-serving director, Dan McGarry, in what he said was a “straight up …
Scott Morrison should bring strong climate commitments to next year’s forum to avoid a repeat of this year’s summitLast week at the close of the Pacific Islands Forum in Tuvalu I described the leaders’ discussions as frank and fierce. It is now well-kn…
PM Enele Sopoaga responds to Michael McCormack’s belief that Pacific islands will survive climate crisis because they ‘pick our fruit’The prime minister of Tuvalu is considering pulling his country out of Australia’s seasonal worker program, after comm…
Regional forum in Tuvalu ‘strongly encourages’ Indonesia to finalise UN visit to troubled provinceThe United Nations high commissioner for human rights should investigate the deteriorating human rights situation in West Papua within a year, Pacific nat…
Analysts say Kyoto credits being used to back out of promised cuts as Tuvalu’s PM calls Australia’s $500m pledge an immoral ploy to quell debate Australia has been accused of using a loophole to back out of a promised emissions cut nearly eight times g…
Tuvalu PM says no amount of funding makes up for Australia’s failure to cut emissions The scene has been set for tense discussions in Tuvalu as Scott Morrison arrives on Wednesday, after his announcement of $500m in climate funding for the Pacific fell…