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Many developing countries cannot free up public money to invest in economic stimulus packages. For them to join in the global recovery, they will need assistance.
In 1946, the US began its nuclear testing on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands – a terrifying thought for many Australians. Some 75 years on, the evidence shows their fears were well-founded.
Research reveals a desire by Pacific tourism workers for genuine change once travel starts again, including better wages and conditions and greater local control of operations.
At the start of the cyclone season in the Pacific, weather forecasters are changing their warnings to focus less on weather information and more on the damage expected from an impending storm.
A reliance on local customary knowledge and practices helped people make a living and strengthened relationships with family and friends.
If only 1% of the Pacific’s population was permitted to work permanently in Australia, this would bring more benefits to the region than Australia’s annual aid contribution.
The president of Kiribati plans to raise its low-lying islands to fight, not flee, sea level rise. Here’s why it’s an expression of human dignity.
Western solutions to Pacific Island issues often end in failure. These countries must build their autonomy to survive climate change.
Tropical cyclones account for almost four in five natural disasters across Pacific Island nations. But a new forecasting tool now gives up to four months warning for the upcoming cyclone season.
Pacific communities have always been resilient, surviving on islands in the middle of oceans for more than 3,000 years. But climate change is an unprecedented challenge.
Pressure is growing to include struggling Pacific nations in an Australia-New Zealand travel bubble, but economic diversity is what the region really needs.
While Pacific communities need robust public health reporting, local media face harassment and arrest while covering the crisis.
The crisis is a chance to change the Pacific Step-up from something Australia does “to” or “for” the region to something it does “with” it.
Tourism is vital to NZ and small economies in the Pacific. But as the Samoa Tourism Authority’s CEO says, “we can always get money back, but once there’s a loss of life you’ll never have that back”.
New Zealanders should expect new border entry restrictions to stay in place for some time, but the measures are important to control the spread of coronavirus in New Zealand and the Pacific.
Fishers who hunt wild tuna use fish’s natural attraction to floating objects to lure them to known positions near GPS-equipped rafts. However, these rafts are attracting increasing concern.
New research casts light on the pre-colonial mountain settlements in Fiji.
Australia ensured its official communique watered down commitments to respond to climate change, gaining a hollow victory.
Cuba is offering a compelling example of how we can take care of each other during the climate crisis with its work training doctors on Kiribati, a nation that is being devastated by climate change.
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Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW
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Professor of Geography, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Development Studies, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Lecturer in International Politics and Policy, James Cook University
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Faculty Member, Asian Studies Program, Georgetown University; Visiting Fellow, Department of Pacific Affairs, Australian National University., Georgetown University
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Adjunct Research Fellow in Geography and Social Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Honorary Research Associate, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Professor of International Security, Adelaide University
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Scientia Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
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Professor of Comparative and Plural law, Newcastle University
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Associate professor, Griffith University
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Researcher, The University of Queensland
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Senior Research and Teaching Fellow, School of Health, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer in Ornithology, Charles Sturt University