Kyle Evans

6 days ago | abc.net.au | Kyle Evans

As Australia and Papua New Guinea negotiate a security treaty that could see Papua New Guinea soldiers serving in the Australian Defence Force, one key question is over citizenship. Experts say citizenship would be prevented to avoid brain drain and potential pay gaps between Australian and Pacific recruits.

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Adel Fruean |Kyle Evans

One of the Pacific's only female leaders has lost her grip on power, triggering an early election in Samoa, after failing to pass the national budget in the country's parliament. Samoa's Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa conceded defeat on the floor of parliament on Tuesday morning after her government's budget was voted down 34-16. "The necessary processes have been completed and parliament's decision is clear," she said.

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Kyle Evans

When hunter Murray Thomas ventured to New Caledonia more than 40 years ago, it was not sun, sea and sand in his sights. "New Caledonia traditionally grows the biggest rusa deer in the world, so the antlers are well sought after," he said. It was the first of many trips to the French territory for Mr Thomas, who spent 37 years leading guided hunting tours through New Caledonia's rural terrain. He felt at home among Indigenous Kanak people, who like him, loved to hunt and used it to make a living.

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Kyle Evans

The three years Papua New Guinean soldier Derek Levi spent seconded with the Australian Defence Force (ADF) were some of the best of his life. "Australia felt like a second home. I never got homesick and the standard of employment was the pinnacle of what I saw," he said. These days he's back in PNG commanding an engineer battalion in the Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF).

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Kyle Evans

An airfield on a tiny Pacific island once used to launch the planes that dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in WWII is being brought back to life. The US military is restoring the 80-year-old facility on the island of Tinian in the Northern Marianas as it beefs up security in the Pacific. Locals fear the project could make their island home a target for US adversaries.