Press Release – Australian High Commission

The Australian Defence Force has completed the latest in a series of deployments in support of Operation RENDER SAFE, working to rid the Solomon Islands of unexploded ordnance left in the wake of some of the bloodiest battles of World War II. The latest …
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Speech – The Maori Party

Thank you for your kind words of introduction. I mihi also to the Board members of Volunteering New Zealand and Tim Burns, Executive Director; the conference sponsor, New Zealand Post Group; the incredible cast of keynote speakers and workshop presenters …
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Press Release – Family First Lobby.

Family First NZ is repeating its call for a Commission of Enquiry into the unacceptable levels of child abuse and deaths in NZ. The call comes following the suspected child abuse death of Wanganui toddler Karl Perigo-Check Junior which is the 18th case since …
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Press Release – Bayley’s Real Estate

The first major residential lifestyle development to launch in Fiji for the past three years is quickly taking shape – with a sizeable chunk of properties already sold ‘off-plan’ and infrastructure works now laying down the foundations for …
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Press Release – Peter Coleman

Coleman speculates that the Philippine Sea Plate was once an enormous hole out of which the Moon exited, and left a strewen field, or trail, of previously unexplained glassy tektites.
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Compiled by David Reade

www.mediapasifica.com

PACIFIC countries’ economic growth is forecast to slow to 3.1percent this year following last year’s historical high of 5.1 percent. It is against this background that the PACER Plus — Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations — negotiations are taking place this weekend in Brisbane and which could be crucial to development in the region, says Oxfam in a new paper. Read more »

Speech – The Maori Party

Four years ago, the Maori Party was approached about the Genographic Project, a huge project in which DNA samples would be extracted from 100,000 indigenous volunteers. That’s right – the blood and genetic codes of indigenous peoples would be suddenly …
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Moffat Mamu (left) and Samisoni Pareti at the development media awards in Tokyo. Photo: USP

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By a special correspondent in Suva

A University of the South Pacific journalism alumni says he hopes winning a major award in Asia-Pacific journalism will draw attention to climate change and encourage greater coverage of this issue in the regional media.
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Press Release – Tsunami Samoa Funds Appeal

The church bells broke the early morning promise of a new day on the Island of Manono as the tsunami warning alerted the villagers to run inland to higher grounds.
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Press Release – Attorney General of Fiji

Two lawyers and a law firm have been charged with breaches of the Legal Practitioners Decree 2009. These lawyers are Mr Abhay Singh of AK Singh Lawyers and Mr Hemendra Nagin of Sherani and Co. The law firm charged is Sherani and Co. Mr Abhay Singh faces …
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