Background to SCORI – is this a sell-out of Pacific’s ‘Sea of Islands’?
By concerned citizens of the Pacific
The signing of the memorandum of understanding between the University of the South Pacific’s vice-chancellor and president, Professor Pal...
Highly secretive Five Eyes alliance disrupts China-backed hacker group
ANALYSIS: By Dennis B. Desmond
This week the Five Eyes alliance — an intelligence alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and the...
Stan Grant stands up to racist abuse. Our research shows many diverse journalists have copped it too
ANALYSIS: By Bronwyn Carlson, Faith Valencia-Forrester, Madi Day and Susan Forde
Stan Grant, a well-known Aboriginal journalist and soon-to-be former host of Q+A, has made...
Memories of war haunt ‘slippery slope’ to a militarised Pacific
ANALYSIS: By Barbara Dreaver in Port Moresby
When I was growing up in Kiribati, then known as the Gilbert Islands, New Zealand divers came to...
Timor-Leste is at the polls, here’s how Australia can support its democracy
ANALYSIS: By Melissa Conley Tyler and Andrea Fahey
Today is election day in Timor-Leste, when voters are deciding on 65 members of Parliament to represent...
After historic apology, Fiji moves to build a reconciled nation
By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva
In an emotionally charged “Reconciliation and thanksgiving” service organised by Fiji’s Methodist Church -- the country’s largest Christian denomination --...