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Treasury’s migration forecast looks shaky as long-term numbers set to surge
Independent Australia
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Despite Treasury’s forecast of a migration cooldown, policy settings suggest Australia’s population surge is far from over, writes Dr Abul Rizvi. TREASURY IS FORECASTING net migration settling long-term at around 230,000 per annum. While this is...
Baudinet aims for historic Davis Cup doubles record
Cook Island News
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July 15, 2025
Cook Islander Brett Baudinet is three wins away from claiming the world record for the most doubles wins in Davis Cup history. VTF/25071420 Cook Islands tennis veteran Brett Baudinet is set to compete in his 21st Davis Cup, aiming for a historic...
Friends to all: Competing for Pacific security partnerships
The Strategist
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July 16, 2025
The Pacific faces a rapidly evolving security environment. Foreign partners increasingly compete for comprehensive partnerships, engagements, coordination and influence. Security risks are also evolving, with a greater emphasis on climate- and...
Pacific Nations Cup 2025 closes with champions crowned
Samoa News
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July 14, 2025
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Tennis Association (ASTA) proudly announces the successful conclusion of the 2025 Pacific Nations Cup, hosted from June 30 to July 5, with final matches played on July 6 after weather-related delays....
FEATURE | The development of Fiji’s maritime force
The Fiji Times
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July 12, 2025
THE establishment of the Fiji Navy Squadron of the Royal Fiji Military Forces included the incorporation of naval traditional beliefs observed by the Royal Navy and Fijian traditional seafarers during the colonial era. Defender of the sea The term...
74 visa-free destinations Filipinos can visit
Gulf News
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Ready to trade your screens for skylines? If your passport's feeling neglected and your feet are itching for an adventure, we’ve got just the ticket — or rather, 74 of them, as per Henley & Partners (H&P) and latest updates (as of July 8, 2025)....
They need to listen and act now: Pacific countries ramp up…
Pacific News Service
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Pacific countries have taken a critical step to finalise their priorities as they ramp up the call for a high-ambition treaty that addresses the full life cycle of plastic. Ahead of the second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental...
UN CEDAW Committee Publishes Findings On Afghanistan, Botswana, Chad, Fiji, Ireland, Mexico, San Marino and More
Scoop
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Geneva, 7 July 2025 The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) today issued its findings on Afghanistan, Botswana, Chad, Fiji, Ireland, Mexico, San Marino, Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Tuvalu, after reviewing...
How climate change is creating refugees across the world
The Indian Express
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July 10, 2025
As the global attention remains focussed on the ‘human tragedies’ unfolding in Ukraine and Gaza, another crisis brews quietly on the margins – climate-induced displacement. The number of people displaced not by war or conflict, but by a planet in...
Pacific news in brief for 7 July
RNZ
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July 7, 2025
Artisanal miners search for gold in the waters downstream from the Panguna mine in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. Photo: OCCRP / Aubrey Belford Bougainville - mining The Bougainville House of Representatives amended the Mining Act last week. The...
Australia Commits $16.4 Million to Boost Palau’s Renewable Energy Project
Island Times
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July 11, 2025
By: Eoghan Olkeriil Ngirudelsang (edited: 7/14/2025) KOROR, Palau (July 10, 2025) — Australia has pledged $16.4 million to support the next phase of Palau’s transition to renewable energy, with funds designated to secure a battery energy storage...
Pacific leaders address U.S deportation distress and regional unity at Micronesian meeting
Island Times
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July 11, 2025
MAJURO (PMN) — The latest wave of deportations of Pacific people from the United States was among a range of issues discussed at the recent Micronesian Islands Forum in the Marshall Islands. The three-day summit brought together leaders from...
Pacific Islands focus: deep sea mining, reproductive injustice and a new breast screen campaign
Croakey Health Media
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July 10, 2025
Introduction by Croakey: World leaders are calling for a moratorium on deep sea mining to prevent devastating and irreversible environmental harm. This week, governments are meeting in Jamaica at the 30th Session of the International Seabed...
Taking matters into our own hands: Pacific aid dependency
The National
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There has been a marked decline in Pacific development and progress against the Sustainable Development Goals since the early 2000s, attributable to the impacts of major disaster events, remoteness of Pacific Island countries (PICs) and distance...
Pacific Islanders relocate to Australia to escape rising seas
Context
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What’s the context? Climate-vulnerable Pacific Islanders take up Australia's offer for resettlement through a pioneering visa scheme. LONDON - More than a third of people living in the tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu have applied to permanently...
As Sea Levels Rise, an Island Nation Creates an Escape Route
Inside Climate News
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July 1, 2025
The small island nation of Tuvalu is being swallowed by the sea. With just around 10,000 residents, this Pacific network of reef islands and atolls has seen sea levels rise around 6 inches over the past three decades—one and half times the global...
A new country in the Pacific — Bougainville
International Politics and Society
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July 8, 2025
A historic moment for Bougainville is within reach — the Pacific archipelago is on the verge of achieving independence from Papua New Guinea. In the 2019 referendum, almost 98 per cent of the population voted in favour of secession. Two years...
Taking matters into our own hands: aid dependency in the Pacific
Island Times
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July 8, 2025
By Dr Aisake Valu Eke and Tuya Altangerel SUVA, (DEVPOLICY.ORG) — There has been a marked decline in Pacific development and progress against the SDGs since the early 2000s, attributable to the impacts of major disaster events, remoteness of...
Why over a third of this nation's citizens want to migrate to Australia
SBS
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More than one third of people in Tuvalu want to apply for an Australian visa, as the tiny Pacific nation faces rising sea levels and other impacts of climate change. The federal government opened an inaugural ballot on 16 June that allows...
Vulnerable Countries Deserve Full Statehood as Sea Levels Rise
The Energy Mix
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July 10, 2025
Both existing international law and the ongoing imperative to counter injustice and preserve human dignity demand full and enduring statehood for countries that stand to lose much or all of their land territory beneath rising seas, says a new...