Tonga
‘Managed retreat’: Should Australians withdraw from our beloved coastlines?
Climate change is increasing the rate and severity of coastal erosion, leading some experts to call for a “managed retreat” from beachfront development.
- Bianca Hall
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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
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
‘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
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
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
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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- Good Weekend
‘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
‘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
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
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