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Oceania
Australia to provide more aid to Vanuatu as another earthquake strikes
The latest lot of Australian aid includes $2.5 million for medical care, water, sanitation and hygiene products and services.
- by Chris Zappone
Latest
Australians return home as Vanuatu rescues continue
Another 141 Australian citizens touched down in Brisbane overnight following the devastating earthquake.
- by Emily Verdouw and Samantha Lock
Updated
Earthquakes
Australians evacuated from Vanuatu after ‘terrifying’ earthquake
Rescuers are racing to pull survivors from the rubble of fallen buildings, but the number of dead is “expected to increase”.
- by Ben McKay and Callum Godde
Explainer
Earthquakes
Scientists know where the big earthquakes will hit. They just don’t know when
A lurch in the Earth’s tectonic plates can wreak havoc at any time – as we’ve just seen in Vanuatu. How do scientists measure quakes, and are we doing enough to prepare?
- by Sherryn Groch
Updated
Earthquakes
Several dead, trapped, hundreds injured after violent earthquake
A state of emergency has been declared in Vanuatu. Australia has sent search and rescue and emergency medical teams.
- by Alasdair Pal, Kirsty Needham and Katherine Scott
Updated
Earthquakes
‘We definitely need help’: Australian’s rescue plea as magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits Vanuatu
Buildings have been flattened in the Pacific nation’s capital, Port Vila, and several embassies evacuated.
- by Paul Sakkal
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Pacific diplomacy
PNG minister says $600m NRL deal ‘nothing to do with China’
PNG’s foreign minister said its government had set aside more than $38 million to begin building facilities and a deal could be announced as early as next week.
- by Chris Barrett
Updated
Indigenous culture
Why are thousands of people marching for Maori rights?
Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Wellington for the final stretch of a week-long protest that has spanned the length of the country. Here is why.
- by Charlotte Graham-McLay
World leaders issue warning to Trump on trade, but not by name
The APEC summit has made a stand against new barriers, in a signal to the US president-elect to rethink his tariffs plan.
- by David Crowe
Haka interrupts NZ parliament, MPs kicked out, as treaty bill arrives
Tempers flared in New Zealand’s parliament during an extraordinary debate on the Treaty Principles Bill.
‘We’re not helping them’: Inside the town of New Zealand’s fugitive father
The parents of Tom Phillips, who vanished with his children three years ago, say they are not aiding their son as he evades police.
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