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One of the artefacts from the Pasifika Collections

A Kennedy daughter offers a hand to Pacific nations threatened by climate change

In one of her last acts as US ambassador, Caroline Kennedy has sealed a deal to safeguard at-risk South Pacific cultural relics and artefacts.

  • Linda Morris

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Anthony Albanese speaks with Kurt Campbell at the Pacific Islands Forum. 

Albanese’s anger over hot-mic moment ‘unedifying’: Coalition

The prime minister jokingly suggested the US could share the cost of Australia’s $400 million Pacific police partnership deal, widely seen as countering China.

  • Matthew Knott
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese greets Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka at the forum.

‘Godsend’: Australia wins support for policing pact to counter China

Anthony Albanese has locked in support for a far-ranging Pacific policing pact designed to counter China’s growing security presence in the region.

  • Matthew Knott
Fiji residents are among our Pacific Island neighbours under threat from rising seas.

Pacific in peril: UN urges Australia to block new coal and gas projects

The United Nations issued a global SOS on Tuesday, releasing new data showing global sea-level rises have doubled since the 1990s.

  • Bianca Hall
ADF personnel were called in to help flood affected communities on the mid-north coast in 2021.

Why half a million Australian properties could be all-but uninsurable

If your plane had a one-in-four chance of falling from the sky, would you still get on the flight? That’s the question property owners are being asked.

  • Bianca Hall
Feleti Kaitu’u has a fan favourite among school students in Tonga.

I joined the Reds in Tonga, and left confident a title force had arrived

There was more to the Queensland Reds’ mission in Tonga than achieving victory in two historic clashes.

  • Nick Wright
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‘Who’s going to be my mummy now?’: Enter aunt Winnie

Bank manager Winnie Dunn and her namesake author niece are as close as any mother and daughter could be – and just as disputatious.

  • Nicole Abadee
Scott Edwards.

‘Most underrated cricketer in the world’: Aussie helms flying Dutchmen

From Blackburn via Richmond and - briefly - Highton, the Netherlands captain and his team are making the cricket world sit up and take notice. Next: Australia.

  • Greg Baum
An flag raising ceremony to celebrate the opening of the embassy in Honiara of the Solomon Islands in February.

US eyes massive diplomatic ramp-up for Pacific island embassies

In a bid to counter China’s growing power in the region, the US envisions hiring up to 40 staffers over the next five years for each of its four new embassies.

  • Matthew Lee
A Tongan delicacy.

This is the best dish you’ll find in the Pacific, by far

You’ll find variations of ota ika across the Pacific but it’s a classic dish in Tonga.

  • Ben Groundwater

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