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Australia Is Building a New Pacific Security Architecture. Next Week’s Pacific Islands Forum Will Test Its Limits.

August 28, 2026 No Comments

Ahead of next week’s Pacific Islands Forum, Canberra has assembled an increasingly dense network of defence and security agreements across the region. The question is whether Pacific governments can shape that architecture around their own priorities of sovereignty, resilience and shared prosperity. Australia is rapidly reshaping the security map of

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Trump Reopens Protected Pacific Waters to Commercial Fishing, Igniting Conservation and Sovereignty Concerns Across Oceania

Trump Reopens Protected Pacific Waters to Commercial Fishing, Igniting Conservation and Sovereignty Concerns Across Oceania

June 16, 2026 No Comments

A sweeping move by U.S. President Donald Trump to reopen vast stretches of previously protected Pacific waters to commercial fishing has reignited a fierce debate over marine conservation, economic development, and the rights of Pacific communities whose cultural and ecological futures are deeply intertwined with the ocean. The new proclamation

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New Zealand Bets on the Quantum Frontier

New Zealand Bets on the Quantum Frontier

January 27, 2026 No Comments

Wellington moves to turn deep science into economic muscle WELLINGTON — In a modest line item with outsized ambition, the New Zealand government has committed NZ $1.35 million to chart a national pathway into quantum and photonic technologies. The goal is not abstract discovery alone, but something more pragmatic and

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Samoa Set for New Leadership as Schmidt Rises in Snap Election

Samoa Set for New Leadership as Schmidt Rises in Snap Election

September 1, 2025 No Comments

APIA, Samoa — Provisional results from Samoa’s snap election point to a sweeping victory for La’auli Leuatea Schmidt and his FAST party, placing him on the brink of becoming the nation’s next prime minister. The caretaker leader, Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa, suffered a resounding defeat after forming a new political party

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Samoa Heads to the Polls Amid Energy Crisis and Climate Pressures

Samoa Heads to the Polls Amid Energy Crisis and Climate Pressures

August 19, 2025 No Comments

APIA, Samoa – August 2025: On August 29, Samoans will cast their votes in a snap general election, a contest that has become a referendum on the country’s ability to navigate overlapping crises. A collapse of Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa’s government earlier this year set the stage for the

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