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Pacific islands

March 2025

  • The foreign minister Penny Wong at the Pacific Islands Forum in Nadi, Fiji, in 2023.

    Australia to redirect $100m in foreign aid to Indo-Pacific region after Trump pulls funding

    Foreign affairs minister Penny Wong says ‘hard strategic decisions’ need to be made
  • Activists hold up letters that spell 'Abolish nuclear weapons'

    ‘Never forget’: Pacific countries remember nuclear test legacy as weapons ban treaty debated

    Supporters of the UN treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons gathered this month in New York to call for wider ratification

    • New Vanuatu PM says he will ‘revisit’ 2022 security agreement with Australia

    • The long read
      In search of the South Pacific fugitive who crowned himself king

    • Ocean rower Aurimas Mockus stranded by cyclone off Australia’s east coast safely rescued

February 2025

  • Storms swirling over the Pacific near Australia

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: six cyclones swirl simultaneously in southern hemisphere

  • A satellite image of the three tropical cyclones

    Satellite image captures three tropical cyclones spinning in the South Pacific at once

  • Wong says some politicians 'seem to be insinuating' that Australia is responsible for China not giving notice of their navy's activities in international waters near Australia
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    Wong shares details about 'unsafe and unprofessional' Chinese firing exercises – video

  • A child plays on a beach in Nauru.

    Nauru sells citizenship to help fund relocations as sea levels rise

  • Middle powers such as Australia relied on the rules-based order, but that’s in doubt. Here’s what we must do

    John Blaxland

  • Aurimas Mockus has been rowing across the Pacific for months. Now he’s weeks from Australia – if he can avoid Cyclone Alfred

  • On the ground in the Cook Islands, controversial deal with China stirs debate

  • ‘Served their time’: Nauru president backs Australian plan to resettle three members of NZYQ cohort

  • Cook Islands releases terms of deal with China amid protests about lack of transparency

  • Cook Islands PM defends signing of wide-ranging deal with China

  • Explainer: what will the withdrawal of USAid mean for the Pacific?

  • Solomon Islands landowners seek compensation over catastrophic oil spill

  • New Zealand raises ‘concern’ as Cook Islands prepares to sign China deal

  • Groundbreaking botanical discoveries on Captain Cook voyage were thanks to Indigenous people

  • Sir Julius Chan: death of last of PNG’s founding fathers marks end of era

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