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6 days ago | 
abc.net.au | Lucy Cooper
Rio Tinto funded an independent assessment of the mine's social and environmental impacts that involved widespread community consultation. Landowner and member of parliament for the Ioro constituency where the Panguna mines are located, Theonila Roka Matbob says Rio Tinto provided no clear commitments in their most recent AGM.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Lucy Cooper
A social media video showing the head of the Fiji's prison service, Acting Commissioner Sevuloni Naucukidi, engaging in a nightclub brawl has gone viral on social media. Videoed in a popular Suva nightclub, the video has sparked outrage with the Opposition and members of the public calling for Naucukidi to step down. The widespread distribution of the video has also raised questions about press freedom.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Finau Fonua |Lucy Cooper
Pacific Islanders in the state of Victoria will be among the 18 million voters in Australia set to head to the polls tomorrow. According to regional statistics, just under 80,000 Victorians are of Pacific Islander heritage, of which over 28,000 were born in the islands. There are no statistics available on where Australia's Pacific Islander demographic leans towards in federal elections.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Lucy Cooper
The Sea Women of Melanesia is a trailblazing team of indigenous women whose grassroots environmental movement is being recognised on the world stage. Last year they won the prestigious Whitley award, often called the "green Oscars", for their groundbreaking work protecting coral reefs across Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. They also share their knowledge with indigenous women in North Queensland.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Lucy Cooper |Finau Fonua
Program: Pasifika voters heading to the Australian polls say cost of living, climate, immigration, and the economy key issues influencing their vote6h ago6 hours agoThu 1 May 2025 at 8:00pmSpace to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Adelaide Miller |Peter de Kruijff |Lucy Cooper
Lying at the bottom of the ocean, thousands of metres below the surface, are reserves of what are considered to be the world's most critical minerals. In the Pacific Ocean between North America and Hawaii lies a large area known as the Clarion-Clipperton zone — a particularly abundant area filled with copper, cobalt and nickel. Now, the race is on to start mining these minerals.
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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Lucy Cooper |Jess Scully
A Solomon Islands man who was found dead on a roadside in southern New South Wales early this week may have been walking to work, police say. Argen Kuni, 34, was found in Griffith with multiple injuries just before 4:30am on Monday. NSW Police believe Mr Kuni may have been the victim of a hit-and-run incident. Mr Kuni's older brother, Kenneth Kuni, said the 34-year-old often walked to work in the early hours of the morning.
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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Annika Burgess |Lucy Cooper
Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Jackson, and then Pope Francis. Gary Seddon has come across a few famous faces as CEO of Air Niugini, Papua New Guinea's national airline. But interacting with the pope when he visited the Pacific Island nation last year was "particularly memorable and remarkable". "There was an opportunity for the crew and I to spend a few precious moments with the pope during the flight," Mr Seddon told the ABC.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Lucy Cooper
Australia is heading to the polls on May 3rd for it's federal election and policy and comments about the Pacific are starting to emerge. One of the two political parties that make up the Coalition, which is currently in Opposition, says it wants Pacific nations to take a "more aggressive stance" towards China over climate change. The Australian Nationals leader David Littleproud suggests Pacific leaders don't understand how much leverage they have with Beijing.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Stephen Dziedzic |Lucy Cooper
Nationals leader David Littleproud says if the Coalition wins office it will urge Pacific nations to take a "more aggressive stance" towards China's climate policies, suggesting they don't "understand" how much leverage they have with Beijing. Labor has taken aim at the Coalition's record in the Pacific, and has warned that its climate policies will sabotage Australia's strategic position in the region in the face of relentless pressure from Beijing.
