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  • 8 Aug 2024
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Global Economy
    • Pacific Islands
    • China and the Pacific
    • Nauru
    • Solomon Islands
    • Tonga
    • Tuvalu
    • Vanuatu

    Economic diplomacy: Banking on the Pacific

    Greg Earl
    Rebuilding regional banking is unlikely to pay dividends without an underlying business revival.
  • 15 Apr 2024
    • Australia
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Nauru

    Western banks are vacating the Pacific, and Nauru is turning to China

    Jessica Collins
    Financial risks are causing Western banks to flee the region, leaving a void for China to fill.
  • 11 Apr 2024
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Pacific Islands
    • China and the Pacific
    • Fiji
    • Nauru
    • New Zealand
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Solomon Islands
    • Tonga
    • Tuvalu
    • Vanuatu

    Pacific Engagement Visas: New developments but quotas unknown

    Natasha Turia , Akka Rimon
    Australia’s highly competitive new visa lottery has much leg work to do to make fair allocations between countries.
  • 8 Mar 2024
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Pacific Islands
    • Fiji
    • Nauru
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Solomon Islands
    • Tonga
    • Tuvalu
    • Sex and Gender

    State of play for Pacific women in 2024

    Jessica Collins
    When the playing field is levelled, the dividends are doubled, both in politics and sport.
  • 5 Feb 2024
    • China
    • Taiwan
    • Pacific Islands
    • Nauru

    From “poop diggers” to allies: Chinese social media reacts to Nauru’s switch

    Shuo Luan , Graeme Smith
    Echoes of past positions continue to influence views of the Pacific Island nation.
  • 23 Nov 2023
    • Technology
    • Pacific Islands
    • China and the Pacific
    • Fiji
    • Nauru
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Solomon Islands
    • Tonga
    • Tuvalu
    • Vanuatu

    Digital dominoes: Australia’s strategic play in the Pacific

    Mihai Sora
    Enhancing the region’s digital connectivity goes beyond influence. It’s about sharing prosperity and security, too.
  • 29 Sep 2023
    • Japan
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Pacific Islands
    • China and the Pacific
    • Fiji
    • Nauru
    • New Zealand
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Solomon Islands
    • Tonga
    • Vanuatu

    Japan risks its reputation in Oceania with Fukushima discharge

    Derek Grossman
    A rollcall of Pacific Island nations have very different views on the release of treated radioactive wastewater.
  • 16 Mar 2023
    • Fiji
    • Fiji Elections
    • Nauru

    Is the sun setting on the era of Bainimarama and FijiFirst?

    Shailendra Bahadur Singh
    A web of alleged interventions in university business has had a cascading effect on Pacific politics.
  • 25 Oct 2018
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Nauru

    Never too late to get the kids off Nauru

    Jane McAdam
    Australia is overdue to respond to the deterioration of the mental and physical health of refugee children on Nauru.
  • 8 Aug 2018
    • Nauru

    A new court for Nauru

    Anna Dziedzic
    Recent developments might allay some concerns about the the independence of the judiciary in the Pacific nation.
  • 3 Jul 2018
    • Australia
    • Nauru

    Nauru ABC ban: Australia damned by faint criticism

    Daniel Flitton
    Authoritarian dangers encroaching on the Pacific have been a theme of late – but not for Australia about Nauru.
  • 10 Apr 2018
    • Asylum seekers and refugees
    • Australia
    • Nauru

    The lack of appeal in Nauru

    Erin Harris
    Australia should question why final court appeals have been scrapped in the tiny Pacific nation before an alternative was set up.

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