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Indonesia Police Use Water Cannon Against Papua Protesters
Pro-Macron parties in New Caledonia plan merger
New Caledonia pro-independents consolidate position
FLNKS insists on full sovereignty for Kanaky New Caledonia
Vanuatu’s push for legal protection from climate change wins crucial support
Air Vanuatu repatriation flights bring home 5000 stranded people
United States Announces Indigenous-Led Commitments at Our Ocean Conference 2022
Coalition completes repatriation of 600 i-Kiribati seafarers trapped for nearly two years due to the pandemic
French Polynesia and France’s Indo-Pacific Strategy
Eutelsat delivers connectivity to Tuvalu

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How Aboriginal Territorians will benefit from major investment reforms
West Papuan Laurens Ikinia helps empowering fellow overseas wantoks
New Caledonia’s green nickel plan to stand out in global market
Vanuatu police crack down with arrests over ‘slander’ of MPs accused of breaking Covid lockdown
Vanuatu church group demands government stops youth vax plan
Car crash kills Papua New Guinea’s deputy PM, Sam Basil
Chad Blair: Why Micronesian Students Struggle In Hawaii
Pacific Island Nations Want More Renewable Power. Climate Financing May Help
Macron phone call to Putin ally Xi Jinping underlines deep differences
Arrival Revival: A new era in travel to the Cook Islands has started

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$600 million for Aboriginal initiatives aimed at Closing the Gap
This picture tells the story of a prison that was – and remains – medieval for Aboriginal inmates
Does Indonesia have a healthy free press? Not according to West Papua
Protester critically injured by rubber bullet, 7 arrested in protest over West Papua carve up
‘Return to Palau’ wins award at International Christian Film Festival
7 Surprising Facts about the Nuclear Bomb Tests at Bikini Atoll
Atoll Celebrates Kwajalein Kamolol Day
Pacific countries stand with Ukraine
Kiribati cultural day kicks off creative project
Samoa court orders swearing in of women MPs

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As Australia votes, indigenous people press call for inclusion in constitution
Vanuatu president warns against ‘dictatorship’ if Justice Ministry is abolished
Papua New Guinea grapples with tuberculosis epidemic
Writing workshop encourages Pasifika students to tell their stories
Tuvalu, sinking in the Pacific, fears becoming a superpower ‘pawn’
Launch of Tuvalu’s National Trade Development Strategy
Three American Samoans, in ask for birthright citizenship, answer Gorsuch’s call for a chance to overturn Insular Cases

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West Papua students ’emotionally unstable’ over scholarship loss
New Zealand, Japan and Samoa set to reopen to visitors

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Aboriginal land claim approved for historic Sydney site
Paid research training for Aboriginal women in Kalgoorlie-Boulder
See The Giant 12-Foot Coins Of Tropical Micronesia

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New doco, Ablaze, tells story of Australia’s first Aboriginal filmmaker, William ‘Bill’ Onus
Aboriginal ABC host Stan Grant slams his OWN employer as having ‘utterly failed’
Sydney’s Inner West Council Has Replaced the State Flag With the Aboriginal Flag in Four Locations
Tamihere calls for self determination Budget
Xi Jinping looms large over Australia’s election
New Zealand to speed up electric car adoption to cut emissions
Lobbying underway in Vanuatu for next President
Fiji Named Worst Nation in Pacific for Press Freedom and Open Civic Space
Disconnected: Electrification in Papua New Guinea
Top baby names in Guam, CNMI, American Samoa
US blocks release of mental health funds for Marshall Islands
“The right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment – what does it mean for States, for rights-holders and for nature?”
Former Kiribati president slams Australia’s ‘politicisation’ of climate action and power of fossil fuel lobby
Guam-based admiral not involved in upcoming US compact negotiations
Remote areas in Kiribati get World Bank climate resilience boost
King’s Guam World Tennis Tour descends on Dededo courts
Guam son graduates from Army Basic Leader Course
$1.6M Project to boost Digital infrastructure in the Pacific Islands
Flosse’s Amuitahiraa party names candidates for French elections
Tonga volcanic eruption confirmed as the largest explosion recorded since 1883
M/S Paul Gauguin To Host Blue Climate Summit In French Polynesia

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