Court acquits Tahitian politician Oscar Temaru in anti-nuclear radio case
RNZ Pacific
The Appeal Court in French Polynesia has acquitted the pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru and two others in the case of the funding of...
PNG corruption – ‘Our people think MPs are automatic teller machines’
EDITORIAL: PNG Post-Courier
Are the voters responsible for the corruption in the country?
Papua New Guinea’s Health Minister and Member for Wabag, Dr Lino Tom, seems...
Protesters call for West Papua to be included on UN ‘decolonisation’ list
Asia Pacific Report
An Australian advocacy group has called for West Papua to be reinscribed on the United Nations list of “non self-governing territories”, citing...
Caledonian Union dismisses ‘two generations to self-determination’ comment as an insult
By Walter Zweifel
New Caledonia’s largest pro-independence party says the latest French pronouncement on self-determination is an insult to the decolonisation process.
Amid a dispute over...
Fiji President welcomes inclusive ‘new dawn’ for Great Council of Chiefs
By Iliesa Tora and Kelvin Anthony
Chiefs are to serve people and not to be served, Fiji President Ratu Wiliame Katonivere told the Great Council...
Timor-Leste’s opposition party wins election ‘punishing’ ruling Fretilin coalition
ABC Pacific Beat
Timor-Leste independence hero Xanana Gusmao has won the parliamentary election, but the country’s first president may contest the count after his party...