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Pacific youth delegate attends nuclear summit

Posted on 03 May 2023

The Hiroshima G7 Youth Summit took place in Japan last week, and among attendees was Māohi, indigenous French Polynesian, Tamatoa Tepuhiari. The event bought together around 50 young people to help make progress in…
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Pacific nations unite to tackle violence against women

Posted on 03 May 2023

Last week, the Pacific Islands Forum Pacific Prevention Summit commenced at which attendees collaborated on combatting gender-based violence in the region. The event bought together over 100 delegates from governments, civil…
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Forecasted El Niño conditions could have severe impacts on Pacific region

Posted on 03 May 2023

El Niño, the oceanographic phenomenon involving the warming of global surface waters, is expected to return in June after three years of the opposite La Niña phase.
 
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of…
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RSE workers unlikely to return to NZ as long-term employment strategy  

Posted on 26 April 2023

Researchers at Dev Policy Blog have released a report looking to understand how work opportunities in NZ are being shared among RSE workers. A recent report investigated participation numbers, but this…
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China ambassador meets for cooperation talks in Cook Islands

Posted on 26 April 2023

Wang Xiaolong, People’s Republic of China Ambassador to New Zealand and Cook Islands, alongside a business delegation of eight, met with Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown last week to discuss…
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Samoan Prime Minister addresses how technology can "bridge the digital divide" for Pacific nations

Posted on 19 April 2023

Earlier this month, Fiame Naomi Mata‘afa, Prime Minister of Samoa, provided a keynote address at ASPI’s Sydney Dialogue, a policy summit focusing on critical and emerging cyber and space technologies. Mata’afa spoke to…
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Cook Islands parliament decriminalises homosexuality

Posted on 19 April 2023

The Cook Islands’ “Crimes (Sexual Offences) Amendment Bill 2023" was passed into law last Friday, and alongside other things decriminalised homosexuality in the nation. This repealed the provisions in its Crimes Act…
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Vanuatu's progress, and challenges, in achieving good governance 

Posted on 12 April 2023

A recent Dev Policy Blog article revealed that despite Vanuatu’s successes in recent years tackling corruption, they are still experiencing significant challenges in achieving good governance.
 
Compared to significant accounts of political…
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New Caledonia and France meet ahead of sovereignty discussion

Posted on 12 April 2023

Delegates from New Caledonia’s Oceanian Awakening party met with Gerald Darmanin, French interior minister, to discuss the issue of the nation’s sovereignty ahead of the upcoming political sequence in France this…
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The impact of labour mobility schemes on families in home countries

Posted on 06 April 2023

Researchers used their findings from 450 qualitative interviews with employers and workers involved with migrant work in New Zealand and Australia to discover the impact on families back home in Kiribati, Tonga…
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