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Pacific islands

August 2024

  • A New Caledonia cagou

    Much cagou about something: New Caledonia’s favourite bird thriving after conservation push

    Efforts to protect the flamboyant flightless bird, including managing predators, have seen cagou numbers grow in the Pacific territory

July 2024

  • A long thin atoll around a lagoon

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Inside the battle for top job that will decide the future of deep-sea mining

  • The Australian foreign minister, Penny Wong

    Wong announces new digital cable centre to limit China’s influence in Indo-Pacific

  • Aerial view of glacier ice floating in the sea

    Man dies after trying to drive truck on to NSW ferry; global sea ice levels hit record low – as it happened

  • Deadly violence has erupted in Papua New Guinea, as the result of a dispute over land

    At least 26 killed in Papua New Guinea village attacks, including 16 children

  • ‘Our whole country is behind them’: Samoa’s weightlifters chasing Olympic glory

  • Fiji wrestles with need for outside help on security, at risk to its own sovereignty

  • ‘Left by the wayside’: New Caledonia MP vows to take Indigenous frustrations to Paris

  • Mapped: the vast network of security deals spanning the Pacific, and what it means

  • New Caledonia: historic win for pro-independence candidate in French elections

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘We rarely see them now’: just how vulnerable are Vanuatu’s dugongs?

June 2024

  • A pro-independence supporter waves a flag on the side of a road ahead of French parliamentary elections in Nouméa, New Caledonia

    ‘We need calm’: New Caledonia prepares for France elections as tensions simmer

  • Cameramen crowd around Julian Assange as he makes his way to a car on the way out of Saipan’s airport

    ‘I don’t know who Assange is’: global media circus bemuses sleepy Saipan

  • Young men stand by a roadblock in the district of Auteuil in New Caledonia on 19 June.

    Fresh unrest in New Caledonia after independence activists flown to France for detention

  • Moai statues lined up with a volcano behind and water to the left

    Easter Island study casts doubt on theory of ‘ecocide’ by early population

  • The alternatives
    How the small Pacific island nation of Vanuatu drastically cut plastic pollution

  • New Caledonia: police arrest pro-independence leader over alleged role in deadly protests

  • ‘Our hearts are heavy’: anguish as Papua New Guinea picks up the pieces after deadly landslide

  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Your plastic is here’: how Easter Island copes with 500 pieces of rubbish an hour washing ashore

  • Australia news live
    Minns ‘really sorry’ final Vivid drone show cancelled with 20 minutes notice – as it happened

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