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  • 29 May 2025
    • Intelligence and security
    • Global Issues
    • Pacific Islands
    • Fiji

    From transit hub to drug market: Criminal syndicates transform Pacific threats

    Jose Sousa-Santos
    Regional leaders have been slow to grasp the infiltration of Pacific security agencies by criminal organisations.
  • 19 May 2025
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Fiji
    • Nauru
    • New Zealand
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Solomon Islands
    • Tuvalu
    • Vanuatu

    After listening, what’s Australia’s next move in the Pacific?

    Mihai Sora
    Pacific governments will ultimately judge Australia on concrete actions rather than friendly gestures.
  • 6 Feb 2025
    • Climate change
    • United Nations
    • Pacific Islands
    • China and the Pacific
    • Fiji
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Samoa
    • Solomon Islands

    The global contest for the Pacific

    Michael Wesley
    Geopolitical fears of growing Chinese influence in Oceania are not the only interest Australia has in the region.
  • 3 Feb 2025
    • Pacific Islands
    • Fiji

    Strong leader preferred – Fiji’s coup legacy

    Mosmi Bhim
    Complete democratisation will remain a challenge for Fiji while former military officers continue to dominate politics.
  • 27 Nov 2024
    • Climate change
    • Technology
    • United Nations
    • Pacific Islands
    • Fiji
    • Nauru
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Samoa
    • Solomon Islands
    • Tonga
    • Tuvalu

    The Pacific disinformation playbook

    Meg Tapia
    A surge in connectivity has exacerbated the region’s challenges, undermining trust in science and government.
  • 31 May 2024
    • Pacific Islands
    • Fiji

    Fiji: Positioning and posturing on politicians pay

    Jon Fraenkel
    Drawing on past experience and that of neighbouring countries, MPs and ministers should not be determining their own salaries.
  • 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.
  • 10 Apr 2024
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Pacific Islands
    • China and the Pacific
    • Fiji
    • New Zealand
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Solomon Islands

    Solomon Islands: Democracy on the ballot

    Meg Keen , Oliver Nobetau
    Next week, voters will determine not only political leadership but the future of democratic processes.
  • 25 Mar 2024
    • China
    • Pacific Islands
    • Fiji

    Where did that Chinese police video come from?

    Graeme Smith , Daria Impiombato
    Like governments everywhere, when a problem is out of control, they put on a show.
  • 15 Mar 2024
    • Australia
    • Australia and Climate Change
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Australia's Army
    • Australia's Defence Challenges
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Pacific Islands
    • China and the Pacific
    • Fiji
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Vanuatu

    A “climate defence force” for the Pacific

    Thomas Lonergan
    By harnessing human, environmental and resource security, Canberra can counter Beijing’s coercive tactics in the region.
  • 8 Mar 2024
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Fiji
    • Sex and Gender

    Supporting Pacific women to tell the region’s stories

    Rosi Tamani-Doviverata , Kathy McLeish
    Ensuring all local voices are heard makes for far more powerful reporting.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 10 Aug 2023
    • Pacific Islands
    • Fiji

    Young voices on Fiji’s new political era

    Mere Nailatikau , Lavetanalagi Seru
    Six months after a democratic transformation, a new government strides ahead – with the biggest hurdles still to come.
  • 30 Mar 2023
    • Pacific Islands
    • Fiji
    • Review

    Fiji: lessons under a dictator’s heel

    Ariela Zibiah
    Laisenia Qarase’s prison memoir after he was deposed in a coup tells a national story to cherish freedoms.
  • 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.
  • 3 Mar 2023
    • Fiji
    • Sex and Gender

    A new era of democracy for Fiji – but where are the women?

    Romitesh Kant , Kerryn Baker
    A steep decrease in the number of women representatives after the election suggests growing disengagement.
  • 14 Feb 2023
    • Fiji
    • Fiji Elections

    Fiji: A chance to stop political history repeating

    Mere Nailatikau
    A successful transition of power holds opportunity but only if politics can move beyond a cycle of winners and losers.
  • 17 Jan 2023
    • Fiji

    Fiji’s new politics

    Shailendra Bahadur Singh
    After a first smooth change of power, forging consensus in a nation renowned for ethnic tension poses a continued test.
  • 20 Dec 2022
    • Pacific Islands
    • Fiji

    Fiji’s coalition of convenience: what’s next?

    Meg Keen
    A focus on recovery from the pandemic makes international support essential, whichever coalition forms government.
  • 30 Oct 2022
    • Aid & Development
    • Fiji

    Where the buck stops: aid in Fiji

    Mere Nailatikau
    The development funding arena in the Pacific is a crowded space. But local actors are often forced to take back seat.
  • 13 Sep 2022
    • Asean
    • Indonesia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Fiji
    • Solomon Islands
    • Vanuatu

    Why Indonesia’s engagement with Pacific countries matters

    Aristyo Rizka Darmawan
    Sovereignty, trust and mutual benefit are all at stake when so many regions come together under the Indo-Pacific banner.
  • 27 Jun 2022
    • Fiji
    • Papua New Guinea

    This year’s Pacific elections marginalise and isolate too many

    Mere Nailatikau
    As 2022 national polls unfold, it is evident that a global decline in democracy is disadvantaging the most vulnerable.
  • 27 Oct 2021
    • Fiji

    The promise and peril of statistics in Fiji

    Mere Nailatikau
    The Pacific nation needs a new social contract on data for any meaningful change to occur in at-risk communities.
  • 7 Oct 2021
    • Melanesia
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Fiji
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Solomon Islands
    • Vanuatu

    Pacific Step-Up needs a Covid-era reboot

    Edward Cavanough
    Australia must bolster its vaccine assistance with practical fixes, starting with energy and cold-storage solutions.
  • 27 May 2021
    • Fiji
    • Coronavirus

    Fiji: Cannabis should be high on the government’s agenda

    Samantha Cook
    The tourists are gone, and Covid has crippled the economy. A well-regulated marijuana industry might not be a bad idea.
  • 21 May 2020
    • Fiji
    • Coronavirus

    Now is the right time to bring Fiji into trans-Pacific bubble talks

    Samantha Cook
    With the tourist industry reeling, quick action will kickstart island economies more than a well-intended afterthought.
  • 19 Nov 2018
    • Fiji Elections
    • Fiji

    Fiji election, from the polling booth

    Christopher Mudaliar
    <p>Fiji First’s narrow election win had to contend with rain, rumours, and regulations.</p>
  • 13 Nov 2018
    • Fiji

    Fiji: elections and the slow path to democracy

    Jonathan Pryke
    Frank Bainimarama is in a far different position to when he controversially seized power in a military coup in 2006.
  • 16 Oct 2018
    • Fiji

    Fiji and human rights, the limits of influence

    Bruce Hill
    Why was a violator elected to a body responsible for protecting human rights?
  • 4 Oct 2018
    • Fiji

    Australia outbids China to fund Fiji military base

    Christopher Mudaliar
    Australia’s win in Nadi could signal an end to Bainimara’s “Look North” policy, which reoriented Fiji toward China.
  • 25 May 2018
    • Pacific Islands
    • Fiji

    Sedition and Pacific media freedom

    Nic Maclellan
    Amid recent budget cuts, a positive court ruling is a welcome step towards improved media reporting.
  • 22 Nov 2017
    • Pacific Islands
    • Fiji
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Solomon Islands

    Pacific island links: COP23, PNG corruption, Tonga’s election and more

    Euan Moyle,an intern with the Pacific Islands Program, with links on developments across the Pacific.
  • 16 Aug 2017
    • Pacific Islands
    • Fiji
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Solomon Islands

    Pacific links: Solomon Islands PM, PNG’s cabinet, Guam and more

    Jonathan Pryke
    Julie Bishop speaking on Australia's new approach to the Pacific, violence in PNG's Highland provinces, the real danger facing Guam and more.
  • 29 Mar 2017
    • Pacific Islands
    • Fiji
    • Papua New Guinea

    Pacific links: Teresia Teawia, PNG’s budget, Fiji Times sedition charges and more

    Harriet Smith
    Storm activity in the Pacific, Australia rebuffs PNG on aid request, drone deliveries and more.
  • 20 Sep 2016
    • Fiji

    Through social media, Fiji's youth challenge the political elite

    Mereoni Chung
  • 16 Sep 2016
    • Fiji

    Fiji’s democracy cracks again

    Jenny Hayward-Jones
  • 14 Mar 2016
    • Fiji

    Cyclone Winston recovery: Fiji reminded that proximity matters

    Alastair Davis
  • 25 Feb 2016
    • Fiji

    Fiji regroups: Coordination key to effective Cyclone Winston response

  • 15 Feb 2016
    • Fiji

    Fiji's democracy takes a hit

  • 2 Feb 2016
    • Fiji

    Fiji gets closer to its new friends: Russian arms received by increasingly authoritarian regime

    Paul G Buchanan
  • 28 Jan 2016
    • Fiji
    • Russia

    Russia ships arms to Fiji: What will be the quid pro quo?

  • 12 Nov 2015
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Fiji

    The rebuild Fiji democracy project: set back by threat to police independence

    Jenny Hayward-Jones
  • 22 Jan 2015
    • Diplomacy
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australian Perspective
    • Public Diplomacy And International Broadcasting
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Fiji

    Freedom of the press in Fiji under pressure

    Bruce Hill
  • 24 Nov 2014
    • Asia and Pacific
    • China and the Pacific
    • The Asia Pacific's Economies
    • Emerging Donors
    • Fiji

    Fiji grabs the limelight as leaders of China and India visit

  • 27 Oct 2014
    • China and the Pacific
    • Chinese Foreign Aid
    • Fiji

    Chinese aid in Fiji coming under new pressures

    Philippa Brant
  • 9 Oct 2014
    • Fiji

    Fiji: Building a constitutional and parliamentary culture

    Cheryl Saunders
  • 24 Sep 2014
    • Diplomacy
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Fiji

    In Fiji, Bainimarama is back, stronger than ever

    Alex Stewart
  • 23 Sep 2014
    • Diplomacy
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Fiji
    • Foreign Policy

    Fiji's elections: Four lessons for Australian diplomacy

    Jonathan Schultz
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