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On 30 April, the Polynesian pro-independence Tavini party won a solid majority in the Territorial Assembly for the first time. This confirms a real change in the political landscape in the archipelago, marked last year by the victory of the Tavini for the three seats in the French National (...)
Deanna “Violet” Coco this month was sentenced to fifteen months’ jail, with a non-parole period of eight months, for the “crime” of blocking one lane of traffic on a Sydney bridge for 25 minutes as part of a climate change protest. She has since been released on bail pending an appeal, but a dozen (...)
Fijians go to the polls next week, but the country’s constitution still entrenches ultimate power and authority in the military.
When Fijians elect a new parliament on December 14, it’s likely their votes will be counted fairly – yet the country will remain a conditional and fragile democracy. (...)
Eight months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine, the realities and aims of his brutal war of aggression are evident for all to see: Tens of thousands of civilian deaths, mass graves, widespread torture and rape, the forced transfer of children to Russia and (...)
Washington puts the island of Guam, but not the people of Guam, at the center of its military strategy in the Pacific.
The RIMPAC exercise once again underscores the role of the islands and region in warfighting strategy as well as the complex and even paradoxical nature of “defending” and (...)
Australian governments and their counterparts around the world have largely succeeded in desensitising us to avoidable mass deaths and disease. In the week to 6 July, 294 people died of COVID-19 in Australia, more than 40 a day.
In May, OzSAGE, an organisation of health-related experts, (...)
The chants rang out through cities and towns around the world as protesters defiantly challenged the US Supreme Court’s 1 July decision to end national access to abortion: “We won’t go back!” and “Our bodies! Our lives! Our right to decide!”
The decision has encouraged bigots everywhere, including (...)
A former Peace Corps volunteer shares her experience seeing the impacts of US nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands conducted between 1946 and 1958—and calls for an apology and justice
We were innocent 21-year-olds entering an organization called the Peace Corps in 1969. We came from all (...)
As America celebrates Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month this May, a former undersecretary of state for arms control and international security remembers the painful history of Castle Bravo—the largest and most catastrophic US nuclear weapons test conducted in the Marshall Islands during the (...)
Hal Greenland asseses the dramatic shift to the centre left in Australia after the weekend federal elections.
On Saturday, the Australian federal elections resulted in a dramatic shift to the centre-left in a poll that saw the emergence of a batch of insurgent feminist politicians. The (...)
After nine years of ruling for the rich, the Coalition government’s primary vote dropped by more than 6 percent and it lost a slew of seats—and government—in yesterday’s federal election. This was a public judgement of its agenda of tax cuts for the well-off, wage cuts for workers, inaction on (...)
A huge tourist boom on Mo’orea Island has seen privatisation of coastline, with just three public beaches left
Last November more than 2,000 people arrived on Temae beach, the heart of Mo’orea island in French Polynesia.
The gathering was a a traditional cultural ceremony called a tahei, which (...)
The two unions representing workers in New Zealand ports say their members are reluctant to work Russian flagged ships in New Zealand ports and are looking at methods of protest following the outbreak of war.
Both New Zealand unions are affiliated to the International Transport Workers (...)
On the occupation at parliament
-# New Zealand has one of the lowest rates of death from COVID in the world, and is now facing the rapid spread of the Omicron variant. Mask wearing, vaccination, vaccine mandates and contact tracing are collective responses to COVID, and collective responses (...)
The virus has swept into remote island countries, sowing panic and confusion.
Previously Covid-free island nations in the Pacific have experienced their first outbreaks of the virus in the past three weeks.
Covid-free for almost two years, some Pacific island nations are suddenly struggling (...)
Stereotypes and political rhetoric about poverty ignore the fact that welfare payments in Australia are obscenely low
As we barrel towards what’s sure to be an unedifying federal election campaign with more of us long-term unemployed and facing entrenched poverty than ever before, poor people (...)
None of the parties involved in the Djokovic visa affair comes out of it very well, writes Dave Kellaway.
At the time of writing it is still unclear whether Novak Djokovic will be able to defend his title in the Australian grand slam tennis event.
Djokovic himself has always been very cagey (...)
Much has been said about the rampant exploitation of migrant workers in Australia but the Migrant Workers Centre has data showing it is even worse.
The Melbourne-based non-profit organisation that advocates for migrant workers’ rights surveyed more than 700 migrant workers across many (...)
The great achievement of Australia’s ruling class in the second year of the pandemic was its relentless and ultimately successful campaign to destroy COVID Zero. We’re now starting to get an idea of what our brutal new reality of “living with COVID” actually looks like.
“What I witnessed (...)
As cryptocurrencies become mainstream and frictionless, extremists are finding new ways to fundraise
There have never been more ways to ask for money on the internet. For rightwing extremists looking to monetise hate, that can be a big opportunity – and the earning potential of these digital (...)
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