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Sydney, AUSTRALIA — Australia is about to launch a new visa that will for the first time create a Pacific quota in Australia’s permanent migration regime. 3,000 visas will be issued every year for the Pacific Islands and Timor-Leste. It’s a huge opportunity yet awareness of this new visa is low....
 Samoa prime minister Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa has hinted that her Cabinet will consider a recommendation from the National Emergency Operations Committee to delay some of the planned repatriation flights from New Zealand and Australia. "This request came in after the Cabinet meeting and...
Pacific Forum chairman, Fiji's prime minister Frank Bainimara and others
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — Australia's new security pact with the US and the UK has touched a nerve at the core of Pacific regionalism. The AUKUS alliance, announced by leaders of the three countries this week, finds them seeking strategic advantage in the Indo-Pacific region with a focus on...
Video of ceremonial announcement of AUKUS
Canberra, AUSTRALIA — It has been announced the US, Australia and the UK are forming a new security partnership to be known as AUKUS. This alliance, announced by the leaders of the three countries, throws an entirely different light on the recent 70th anniversary of the ANZUS Treaty and indeed key...
Jacinta Setu and her husband Ofo
New South Wales, AUSTRALIA — A Samoan mother has taken the courageous step of sharing her family’s experience with COVID-19, in the hope of sending a strong community message, to “please get vaccinated”. “Please, especially as a mother, you have to do it for your children”. Jacinta Setu and her...
Newspaper headlines in Australia over Facebook move
BEIJING (AP) — For two decades, global news outlets have complained internet companies are getting rich at their expense, selling advertising linked to their reports without sharing revenue. Now, Australia is joining France and other governments in pushing Google, Facebook and other internet giants...
Ioane Sa'ula, who plays Vince in the series Bump
Sydney, NEW SOUTH WALES — When I sat down to watch the Australian drama Bump on the day of its release, I was excited to hear the term "uce" peppering the dialogue between two teenage characters. This slang term of endearment, coined by the Samoan diaspora in the US and New Zealand a couple of...
Cartoon of Trump drinking from a bottle
Queensland, AUSTRALIA — Prior to this pandemic, there has been a long-held view in these same countries that only fragile states and low-income countries will fail during a pandemic, and would need benevolent assistance from high-income countries. This is best reflected in the 2019 Global Health...
'Ave Pa'anga Pau
Canberra, AUSTRALIA — The International Finance Corporation says Australian-based Tongans can now access a digital product that significantly cuts the costs of remitting money. 'Ave Pa'anga Pau cuts the fees that international agencies apply to money transfers and the IFC says Tongans have been...
RSE worker in a Hawke's Bay orchard.
Apia, SAMOA — The Samoan government says it is ready to send seasonal workers to New Zealand and Australia as soon as a request is made. The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour's Lemalu Nele Leila said the government is eager to see some of the nearly 3000 workers waiting to be deployed,...

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