Pacific links: Trade deals, French elections, malaria in PNG and more

• 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.

Harriet Smith