Pacific/Politics
Aboriginal rights campaigner, Michael Ghillar Anderson, slams the Act of Recognition introduced by Minister Jenny Macklin as an absolute insult to First Nations Peoples. The
last survivor of the four men who set up the Aboriginal Embassy in
Canb...
Pacific/Politics
Australia - The ACT opposition wants Indigenous Affairs Minister Chris Bourke sacked
over his gaffe about a Canberra Aboriginal organisation.
Pacific/Politics
PORT MORESBY, Jun 14 2012 (IPS) - Weeks
ahead of a national election in Papua New Guinea, 3000 people gathered
in the capital, Port Moresby, for the sixth annual Sir Anthony Siaguru
Walk against Corruption organised by Transparency Internation...
Pacific/Politics
Comments about compensation bill offensive to victims
PAPETE, Tahiti
(Tahitipresse, Jan. 18, 2010) - Moruroa e Tatou, a Papeete-based
association representing former French nuclear testing site workers,
criticized the sta...
Pacific/Gender
Monday,
June 8, 2009
The
Naviti, Nadroga, Fiji – The Fifth Pacific Regional Meeting Against Violence
Against Women was opened this morning by former Fiji Vice-President and High
Court judge and a member of the Solomon Islands Truth and ...
Pacific/Gender
Public relations campaign to reduce misunderstanding
WELLINGTON,
New Zealand (Radio New Zealand International, May 25, 2009) – The
Solomon Islands National Council of Women says a public campaign
outlining why seats should be s...
Pacific/Politics
The Federal Government says it will support a UN declaration on indigenous
rights which the Howard government voted against in 2007.
Pacific/Politics
PRESS STATEMENT 07/09
17th March 2009
The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat hascommended an initiative to
develop a new generation of leaders in the region describing it as very
timely.
Pacific/Politics
PRESS STATEMENT 06/09
17th March 2009
The Chair of the Pacific Islands Forum and Premier of Niue, the Hon
Toke Talagi, MP, welcomes the resumption of the political dialogue in
Fiji after a meeting of the Political Leaders Forum held in ...
Pacific/Politics
Fiji human rights commission calls it "rubbish"
SUVA, Fiji (Fijilive, February 28, 2009) – The Fiji
Human Rights Commission has labelled the damning latest US human rights
report on Fiji "a piece of rubbish".
Pacific/Politics
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Radio New
Zealand International, Feb. 13, 2009) – French Polynesia’s assembly has
elected Oscar Temaru as the next president following last weekend’s
resignation of Gaston Tong Sang.
Pacific/Politics
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Radio New
Zealand International, November 20, 2008) – Preliminary results from
American Samoa’s gubernatorial run off election show that the
incumbents Governor Togiola Tulafono and Lt, Governor Faoa ...
Pacific/Politics
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Radio New Zealand
International, Nov. 8, 2008) - Johnson Toribiong has been confirmed as
Palau’s new president, after receiving a concession phone call from his
closest rival Elias Camsek Chin.
Pacific/Politics
PORT
MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (PNG Post-Courier, Nov.12, 2008) – Five
candidates have nominated for the presidential by-election in the
Autonomous Region of Bougainville.
Pacific/Politics
KOROR (Palau Horizon) — (Nov 11, 2008) Vice
President Elias Camsek Chin and his running mate Sen. Alan Seid on
Friday conceded defeat in this island nation’s tightest presidential
election, and congratulated their opponents, attorney J...
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