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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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Felise Kaufusi is given a hero’s reception back home in Tonga last Friday.

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
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will be at the rugby union Test between Australia in Fiji in Newcastle on Sunday.

‘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
Erosion due to wild weather at Wamberal Beach on the Central Coast of NSW in 2020.

‘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
One of the artefacts from the Pasifika Collections

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
Anthony Albanese speaks with Kurt Campbell at the Pacific Islands Forum. 

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
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese greets Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka at the forum.

‘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
Fiji residents are among our Pacific Island neighbours under threat from rising seas.

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
ADF personnel were called in to help flood affected communities on the mid-north coast in 2021.

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
Feleti Kaitu’u has a fan favourite among school students in Tonga.

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