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Leaked Treasury document shows housing the primary concern of Chalmers’ roundtable
Crikey
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August 13, 2025
ROUNDTABLE PICTURE BECOMING CLEARER Following endless kite-flying exercises, announcements that everything is on the table (followed by announcements that actually maybe not), claims the prime minister and treasurer had to have private talks to...
Will Australia's shift on Palestinian state impact our alliances in the region?
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 13, 2025
Australia's move to recognise a Palestinian state marks a historic shift in its policy and brings it in line with many of its South-East Asian neighbours. However, Australia's decision goes against many of its Pacific neighbours to the east, who...
Solomon Islands takes bold step to raise marriage age to 18
Pacific Media Network
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The Solomon Islands government is set to raise the legal marriage age from 15 to 18, aligning it with the voting age and international child protection standards. A joint report by international charities, Save the Children, ChildFund, and World...
What Bangladesh has achieved in the year since its revolution
Atlantic Council
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August 13, 2025
New Atlanticist August 13, 2025 • 2:15 pm ET Print this page By M. Osman Siddique and Jon Danilowicz Although a year has passed since former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was forced to flee the country in the face of a mass uprising, the spirit of...
Climate crisis driving rise in dengue fever outbreaks across Pacific
Samoa News
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August 13, 2025
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As dengue fever infections hit their highest level in a decade and several countries declare emergencies, the climate crisis is driving a sharp rise in dengue fever cases across the Pacific islands, experts say. Pacific...
Could Putin be arrested in the US during Trump meeting as people call for president's detention over 'war crimes'
LAD Bible
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Picture this, Russia's Vladimir Putin departs from his presidential plane in America on Friday... only to be met with handcuffs the moment he steps foot on US soil. The 72-year-old is currently scheduled to travel to Alaska this Friday (15 August)...
Pacific microstate sells passports to fund climate action
Bangkok Post
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August 7, 2025
Nauru offering ‘climate resilience citizenship’ for $105,000 PUBLISHED : 7 Aug 2025 at 10:45 SYDNEY - A remote Pacific nation has started selling passports to fund climate action, but is so far struggling to attract new citizens to the low-lying,...
Rise in dengue fever outbreaks across the Pacific driven by the…
Pacific News Service
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The climate crisis is driving a sharp rise in dengue fever cases across the Pacific islands, experts say, as infections hit their highest level in a decade and several countries declare emergencies. Pacific Island countries and territories have...
Pacific microstate sells first passports to fund climate act...
Modern Ghana
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A remote Pacific nation has started selling passports to fund climate action, but is so far struggling to attract new citizens to the low-lying, largely barren island. Pacific microstate Nauru, one of the world's smallest nations, has a novel plan...
Pacific Islands focus: community-driven solutions, climate in the courts and celebrating independence
Croakey Health Media
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August 11, 2025
Introduction by Croakey: Local solutions to public health issues are showcased in this month’s edition of the Pacific Islands focus column. Isabelle Zhu-Maguire, PhD candidate at the Coral Bell School of Asia and Pacific Affairs, Department of...
Pacific news in brief for 8 August
RNZ
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August 7, 2025
Photo: NASA/LEONELLO CALVETTI/SCIENCE P Pacific - Ocean of Peace China has thrown its support behind the Fiji Prime Minister's 'Ocean of Peace' initiative. Speaking during the Chinese Army Day reception in Suva last week, Chinese Ambassador to...
Rise in dengue fever outbreaks across the Pacific driven by the climate crisis, experts say
The Guardian
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August 12, 2025
The climate crisis is driving a sharp rise in dengue fever cases across the Pacific islands, experts say, as infections hit their highest level in a decade and several countries declare emergencies. Pacific Island countries and territories have...
Pacific Microstate Sells First Passports To Fund Climate Action
International Business Times
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August 7, 2025
A remote Pacific nation has started selling passports to fund climate action, but is so far struggling to attract new citizens to the low-lying, largely barren island. Pacific microstate Nauru, one of the world's smallest nations, has a novel plan...
Tom Cruise and Ana de Armas photographed holding hands in Vermont sparking romance talk during 'Deeper' preps
EasternEye
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July 30, 2025
Four decades later, in 2024, judicial officers and experts from across the world came together in an unprecedented initiative to draft the Nauru Declaration on Judicial Well-being. It was followed by a landmark act of global recognition when the...
Judicial well-being: From taboo to recognition by the UN
EasternEye
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July 30, 2025
Judicial well-being has long been a taboo subject, despite the untold toll it has taken on judges who must grapple daily with the problems and traumas of others. Research shows that judicial stress is more pronounced among magistrates and trial...
Australia-New Zealand Leaders’ Meeting 2025
The National Tribune
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August 9, 2025
Prime Minister 1 The Prime Minister of New Zealand, the Right Honourable Christopher Luxon, welcomed the Prime Minister of Australia, the Honourable Anthony Albanese MP to New Zealand. 2 Prime Ministers affirmed the unique close bond and alliance...
A sales-pitch pivot brings deep-sea mining closer to reality
Mongabay
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July 31, 2025
Early on, Canada-based The Metals Company cast the rocks it seeks to mine from the deep seafloor as a crucial resource for electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies, positioning them as a solution to the accelerating climate crisis....
Adelup warns feds are sidelining Guam on seabed mining decisions
The Guam Daily Post
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The Governor's Office is voicing concerns that the federal government is sidelining Guam's input on deep seabed mining decisions in island waters, mirroring complaints from American Samoa as the Trump administration accelerates critical mineral...
Who’s who at the plastics treaty talks, from delegates to lobbyists
Grist Magazine
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August 8, 2025
As delegates from around the world have negotiated a global plastics treaty over five sessions since 2022, alliances have emerged among nations, across civil society, and throughout the private sector. Some countries have banded together in...
U.S begins talks with Cook Islands on seabed mining, gears up to compete with China
Island Times
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August 8, 2025
WASHINGTON/RAROTONGA (PACIFIC ISLAND TIMES) —-The U.S has begun discussions with the Cook Islands on the exploration of seabed minerals within its waters, in a bid to catch up with China, which has previously clinched a similar deal with the...