Pacific leaders declare climate crisis, demand end to coal
Source: RNZ Pacific leaders have declared a climate crisis in the region and are demanding an end to coal mining. […]
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Where do Tok Pisin words come from?
IN these monthly discussions we answer one question about language in PNG and beyond. This month we are looking at
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Plans to merge land commissions
THE Government is looking at merging the National Lands Commission and the Land Titles Commission under a new organisation which
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Melanesian art exchange takes place in Port Vila
Vanuatu’s capital of Port Vila has witnessed one of its biggest exhibitions of art, with around 5,000 carvings and woven
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Indigenous descendants from Vanuatu begin family search
By SBS – May 11, 2018, VanuatuIndependent.com IT’S a little known detail of the so-called ‘blackbirding’ trade: how a group of Aboriginal Australians
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Island tourists urged to get to know the locals
VanuatuIndependent – THE head of the South Pacific Tourism Organisation says better including local communities and indigenous people is the
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Aboriginals in Vanuatu ‘living as second-class citizens’
By The Australian –via the VanuatuIndependent HUNDREDS of South Sea Islanders living in Vanuatu complain they are being discriminated against because they
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You won’t believe the waves in Melanesia
THIS IS NOT for those who are only after the tried and tested wave magnets — those consistent spots where
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The chief fighting for an indigenous Vanuatu nation
By Edward Cavanough – an Australian researcher and writer focusing on public policy and international affairs. By Al Jazeera – August 28,
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The Wantok System as a Socio-Economic and Political Network in Melanesia
Abstract Understanding the wantok system as a socio-economic and political network in the Western Pacific is critical to understanding Melanesian