Weekly Pacific Bulletin | 10 March
Cyclone Niran batters New Caledonia Tropical Cyclone Niran has caused extensive damage in New Caledonia. The cyclone made landfall during Sunday. Although it was… Read More
Tess Newton Cain
With five countries set to quit, is it curtains for the Pacific Islands Forum?
TESS NEWTON CAIN | It has been a bruising couple of weeks for the Pacific Islands Forum after five Micronesian countries announced they… Read More
Regionalism in retreat
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Prophesies of the end of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) as we know it are close to being fulfilled… Read More
Weekly Pacific Bulletin | 20 January
Cook Islands bubbles with New Zealand As presaged late last year, travellers from Cook Islands will be able enter New Zealand without having to undergo… Read More
Pacific predictions 2021
TESS NEWTON CAIN | COVID continues As is the case the world over, the early part of 2021 will see no let up… Read More
Weekly Pacific Bulletin | 16 December
PNG power tussle remains unresolved The PNG Parliament met on Monday morning further to a Supreme Court order that was handed down last week. The… Read More
Charting a course to 2050 in the Pacific
PETER LAYTON, WESLEY MORGAN AND TESS NEWTON CAIN | At the 2019 Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders meeting in Tuvalu, member… Read More
Weekly Pacific Bulletin | 9 December
Forum leaders to meet ahead of UN Climate Summit The leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum will meet online ahead of this week’s… Read More
Weekly Pacific Bulletin | 2 December
COVID-19 and court cases add to the political turmoil in PNG The political turmoil in Papua New Guinea shows no sign of letting up. Several… Read More
Weekly Pacific Bulletin | 25 November
Budget passed in Papua New Guinea In a further twist to the political drama playing out in PNG, the Marape government was back in Parliament… Read More
