Tonga
It’s gruesome work, but on Kangaroo Island, it’s one of the best things an animal lover can do
When it comes to eradicating feral animals, islands across the world are a success story. Kangaroo Island is keen to reap the benefits.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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What happens when some of the NRL’s biggest stars spend a week in Tonga
The Tongans kick-started their Pacific Championships campaign by returning to the Pacific island – and this is what happened.
- Christian Nicolussi
‘Nail in the coffin’: Pacific rugby leaders raise alarm about NRL’s PNG deal
Officials in the region are concerned about the Albanese government’s bankrolling of rugby league and are proposing a greater share in funding for their national game.
- Chris Barrett
‘Managed retreat’: Should Australians withdraw from our beloved coastlines?
Climate change is increasing the rate and severity of coastal erosion, leading some experts to call for a “managed retreat” from beachfront development.
- Bianca Hall
A Kennedy daughter offers a hand to Pacific nations threatened by climate change
In one of her last acts as US ambassador, Caroline Kennedy has sealed a deal to safeguard at-risk South Pacific cultural relics and artefacts.
- Linda Morris
Albanese’s anger over hot-mic moment ‘unedifying’: Coalition
The prime minister jokingly suggested the US could share the cost of Australia’s $400 million Pacific police partnership deal, widely seen as countering China.
- Matthew Knott
‘Godsend’: Australia wins support for policing pact to counter China
Anthony Albanese has locked in support for a far-ranging Pacific policing pact designed to counter China’s growing security presence in the region.
- Matthew Knott
Pacific in peril: UN urges Australia to block new coal and gas projects
The United Nations issued a global SOS on Tuesday, releasing new data showing global sea-level rises have doubled since the 1990s.
- Bianca Hall
Why half a million Australian properties could be all-but uninsurable
If your plane had a one-in-four chance of falling from the sky, would you still get on the flight? That’s the question property owners are being asked.
- Bianca Hall
I joined the Reds in Tonga, and left confident a title force had arrived
There was more to the Queensland Reds’ mission in Tonga than achieving victory in two historic clashes.
- Nick Wright