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#ThePacific returns Thursday 3 August at 7PM AEST, on ABC Australia @ ABC Pacific Facebook. Join @JonsRaela, welcoming @alicelolohea as hosts with #PacificNews from @_Chrisnrita_ @MarianKupu @WasukaEvan and the rest of our @ABCPacific family! 9PM Fiji on #ABCPacific FB.
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🇦🇺 Minister for International Development and the Pacific Pat Conroy arriving at 🇸🇧PM Manasseh Sogavare’s office. Bilateral discussions now underway with Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele after meeting PM Sogavare earlier.@Sasbites @ABCPacific
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Excited to be voicing a special series of the Days Like These podcast on @ABCPacific.
Days Like These is about the days that go spectacularly wrong or go brilliantly right… It's about the risks we take, the decisions we make.
ABC Pacific retweeted
New story out today with @Volodub & @ThecklaGunga about the important work of two women, Dorothy Jolly & Lisa Ijape, helping tribal violence victims recover destroyed ID. It's an issue often overlooked in relief efforts. 1/3
For victims of tribal violence, reclaiming their identity when government-issued documents are destroyed is a difficult process.
It's an issue often overlooked by authorities, but two Port Moresby-based women are leading relief efforts.
Read more: ab.co/3Xwc5zy
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The ultimate hype man!
The gang from CYBMP chat with injured Crusaders speedster Sevu Reece on how his rehab is going, what kind of spectaot her is (a dancing one it would seem) and much more.
Listen to the full episode here: bit.ly/43XEwZq
ABC Pacific retweeted
Such a huge honour to receive this grant: named after one of the Pacific’s greatest journalists @carrierpidgin and in the company of another @StefArmbruster. Thank you 🙏🏽 🌺
This year two $10,000 Sean Dorney Grants for Pacific Journalism go to Stefan Armbruster (@StefArmbruster) @SBSNews; and Marian Faa (@marianfaa) @abcnews. Thanks to support from private donors #MidYearAwards
ABC Pacific retweeted
Episode 1 of 'Stories from the Pacific' drops today! Super excited for everyone to hear this new show and what a guest to kick us off... it's @kweenkong_ !!! #ABCPacific #StoriesFromThePacific #KweenKong
When Thomas Fonua was 16, he had to choose between a professional rugby career or a life of dance — it was a decision that would change his life and see him become the first Pasifika queen on the hit show RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under as @kweenkong_
ab.co/3MGzGIG
ABC Pacific retweeted
We are ready to launch! Brand new program Nesia Daily on ABC Radio Australia this morning and this is your crew @McquireJacob @ChowDoYouDo - and Niyi - audio engineer extraordinaire. #pacific
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"When women come into leadership positions, they bring a different perspective, but also their leadership style is different. I think it's more inclusive," says Rev Sereima Lomaloma, the first Indigenous woman in the Pacific to become a priest. @ABCPacific ab.co/3MLXQTp
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Disaster office in #Vanuatu has issued a Tsunami Warning following a 7.7 earthquake off Loyalty Islands in New Caledonia.
Includes "immediate evacuation" of coastal areas.
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Australia is making changes to its Pacific labour scheme.
Here's what they are, and what you need to know - from @Volodub @ABCPacific
abc.net.au/pacific/australia…
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Breaking: Anthony Albanese confirms next week's Quad leaders meeting in Sydney has been cancelled. Most likely all four leaders will instead meet on the margins of G7 in Japan. The PM suggests Modi could still well come to Australia next week- sounds less certain about Kishida
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They say elections in Timor-Leste are like a big fiesta… and that’s not an understatement! Crowds partying at an enormous Fretilin rally in the nation’s capital Dili this afternoon.
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Tribal fighting has long been a persistent and devastating part of life in the PNG highlands — but high-powered weapons, money and politics took things to a destructive new level. ABC presenter Hilda Wayne visited the highlands to speak to those affected. ab.co/3BxbseN
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PNG foreign minister calls critics "primitive animals" and fiercely defends his daughter's presence at King Charles III's coronation after she posted a controversial Tik Tok video.
Story by @BelindaKora1 and myself...
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ABC Pacific retweeted
I also highly recommend listening to the podcast episode @wayne_hilda and the @ABCPacific team at Sistas Lets Talk produced. It really hits home. abc.net.au/pacific/programs/…
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The ABC's Fiji reporter @LiceMovono on the scene in Suva, questioning former attorney general Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum after he was granted bail and released from custody today.
He was charged with one count of abuse of office.
He labelled the charges "a political witch-hunt".
ABC Pacific retweeted
While Pacific leaders and dignitaries from around the world have started arriving in London for the coronation of King Charles III, thousands of kilometres away on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu, a special ceremony will also be held to mark the occasion. ab.co/3LrkNta
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The ABC has two young journos based in New Caledonia.
They pulled together this really interesting story on the impact of the government banning swimming in Nouméa (for a year!) after a string of shark attacks.
'Ave a read 👇 @ABCPacific
abc.net.au/news/2023-05-02/s… – at Sydney, New South Wales
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"Either way, we are going to build a #DigitalNation... it ensures that we are ready whenever there is a disaster. I know that we always like to think of #ClimateChange & #SeaLevelRise but, even a tsunami could literally wipe Tuvalu out" shares Minister @Simon_Kofe to @ABCPacific.
Tuvalu is on the front line of the climate crisis.
The island nation says the impacts of climate change have forced it to create a digital copy of itself online to survive. But in the real world, not everyone’s convinced.
Read more: abc.net.au/news/2023-04-27/t…