Last week's Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders' summit, held in the northern Australian city of Cairns, saw the Labor government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd move to extend its control over the regional body. Despite earlier statements from a number of Pacific governments expressing disquiet over Canberra's stance on issues including Fiji, climate change, and regional trade, every PIF member state toed the line and signed the final summit communiqué drafted by the Australian government. -By Frank Gaglioti
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Sunday 16 August 2009
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Cairns,Australia
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Friday 14 August 2009
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London, UK
In response to the Secretary General's communication to the Interim Prime Minister of Fiji, Commodore Bainimarama, conveying the Concluding Statement of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) following its Extraordinary Meeting on 31 July 2009, the Interim Government of Fiji Islands invited a delegation from the Commonwealth to visit the country.
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Thursday 13 August 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Civil society leaders from around the South Pacific region met in Nuku'alofa on August 12-13 to try an ensure that the views of the Pacific's Civil Societies are heard in the 2009 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in November.
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Wednesday 12 August 2009
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Melbourne, Australia
Australia and New Zealand have offered to buy a new ferry for Tonga after last week's disaster in which 93 people are feared drowned.
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Wednesday 5 August 2009
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Cairns, Australia
The possible launch of trade negotiations by Prime Minister John Key and the other Pacific leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum, beginning today in Cairns, must not plunge Pacific people already hit by the economic crisis, food crisis and climate change further into poverty, says international aid agency Oxfam.
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Wednesday 5 August 2009
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Queensland, Australia
Pacific Greenpeace activists have shut down Abbott Point coal export terminal in Queensland to demand Kevin Rudd stops risking the future of Pacific Islands by undermining real action on climate change and expanding Australia's coal industry.
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Friday 31 July 2009
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Port Vila, Vanuatu
The PINA Pacific Media Pacific Summit 2009 got off to a shaky start at Port Vila Vanuatu this week. On the opening day of the Pacific Islands News Association's meeting on July 27, Port Vila was shaken by a 6.2 earthquake. Then after lunch, the Fiji issue where government censors are placed in news rooms caused an uproar.
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Friday 24 July 2009
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Honiara, Solomon Islands
The increase in parliamentary entitlements as gazetted on 6th July are inappropriate, unjustified and unaffordable. Transparency Solomon Islands TSI commends the public for the overwhelming condemnation of the actions of the Parliamentary Entitlement Commission (PEC).
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Monday 20 July 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
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Sunday 12 July 2009
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Cahors, France
Tongan ngatu is part of an impressive display of Pacific barkcloth in a new exhibition that opened recently in Cahors, France.
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Sunday 12 July 2009
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Suva, Fiji
A 27-year-old Tongan national Mr Siale Bain-Vete, has been chosen as the Pacific's first Fulbright scholar in more than a decade by the American Embassy, Suva, Fiji, on Wednesday, June 23.
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Wednesday 8 July 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The New Zealand Prime Minister Hon. John Key marked his first visit to the Kingdom by announcing an increase in New Zealand aid to Tonga from $12 million to $16 million during the 2009-10 financial year, and it will go up again by $2 million during the 2011-12 financial year.
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Wednesday 1 July 2009
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Sydney, Australia
Newington College, in Sydney, is strengthening its historical links with Tonga by offering a new two-year scholarship to a Tongan student.
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Friday 12 June 2009
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Australia
Australia is on a mission. Come August when it hosts the Pacific Islands Forum it's looking to announce another feather in its free trade cap, that of the Pacific.
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Thursday 4 June 2009
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Noumea, New Caledonia
A strategy that aims to strengthen the role of Pacific culture in and through all levels of education is a step closer to completion after a group of specialists met recently to examine it.
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Thursday 4 June 2009
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Suva, Fiji
Fiji Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama has turned down a request by leaders of the country's largest Christian church to lift the ban on its annual conference in August.
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Wednesday 3 June 2009
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Canberra, Australia
Better urban design of our cities and suburbs to encourage people to be active and a greater focus on teaching children the importance of healthy eating and exercise are key recommendations of the Australian House of Representative's Health Committee's report "Weighing it up" released on June 1.
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Monday 25 May 2009
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Hokkaido, Japan
Japan's Prime Minister Mr Taro Aso has confirmed 50 billion yen in aid to the Pacific Islands Forum for the coming three years - an increase from its previous aid of 45 billion yen. By Linny Folau.
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Saturday 23 May 2009
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Hokkaido, Japan
The Prime Minister of Japan HE Mr Taro Aso met with Tonga's Prime Minister Hon Dr Feleti Sevele yesterday for a Bilateral Meeting during the Fifth Pacific Alliance Leaders Meeting PALM 5 in Hokkaido yesterday, Friday May 22.
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Saturday 23 May 2009
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Hokkaido, Japan
The Fifth Pacific Alliance Leaders Meeting "PALM 5" was opened yesterday Friday, May 22 at the Tomamu Alpha Ski Resort in Hokkaido, Japan, and deliberated under the theme "We are islanders - towards an eco friendly and rich Pacific".
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