- Officials from nations across the Pacific will meet in Fiji to discuss new health challenges and commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Pacific Public Health Surveillance Network.
- Former Fiji First Minister Lieutenant-Colonel Pio Tikoduadua, who left Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama’s party in 2015, has announced he will stand as a candidate for the opposing National Federation Party and criticised the leadership of the Prime Minister and the Attorney-General.
- Police are investigating an incident last Friday when PNG Defence Force personnel fired into the Manus Island detention centre. ABC correspondent Eric Tlozek analysed the tension between the local community and asylum seekers.
- Devpolicy has investigated the efficacy of non-citizen technical advisers in Australia’s PNG aid program.
- In the lead-up to the French elections, Kerryn Baker examined how the presidential candidates are performing in France’s Pacific territories – ‘the success or failure of French presidential aspirants in the territories often says more about local politics than national politics’.
- On Pacific Beat, Professor Josephine Herman from Auckland University argued for the urgent improvement of road safety in the Pacific.
- Minuscule frogs living in the northern forests of the New Guinea are facing an uncertain future due to changing global temperatures:
Pacific links: Manus shootings, French elections, miniscule frogs and more
Non-citizen technical advisers in PNG, road safety across the Pacific, regional health challenges and more.
Noumea, New Caledonia, January 2017 (Photo: Flickr/Robert Nightingale)
Published 19 Apr 2017
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