Aiyura, Papua New Guinea (Photo: Flickr/Moss)
- After eight years, negotiations for PACER Plus have concluded with Fiji and PNG dropping out of the trade agreement.
- Voters in the French Pacific have flouted mainland voting trends, with turnout at a record low.
- The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has published 'Crowded and Complex: The Changing Geopolitics of the South Pacific', a report by ANU's Joanne Wallis.
- The suspected double murder of a Chinese couple in the Solomon Islands over the Easter weekend has shocked the community, who came together to march in protest over the deaths.
- Immigration Minister Peter Dutton's account of the Manus Island detention centre shooting has been disputed by the PNG police.
- Read this longread from Cosmos Magazine on the fight to eradicate malaria in Papua New Guinea, and the medical and social implications of the disease.
- Governor General Sir Peter Cosgrove and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten attended an Anzac Day dawn service at the Bomana War Cemetery, marking the 75th anniversary of the Kokoda campaign.