Pacific Islands Forum members face challenging conversations about the prickly China-U.S. relationship and its effect on the region. buff.ly/3sj4Pf9

Cook Islands Prime Minister and Forum Chair, Mark Brown dancing to the traditional beat of Cook Islands music at the official opening program of Pacific Island Forum Leaders Meeting here in Avarua, Rarotonga #PIFLM2023 Tavuli News (Solomon Islands) Joseph Ma'ahanua Collin Beck,

Pacific leaders given a spectacular welcome to the Pacific Islands Forum opening ceremony under the gaze of Rarotonga’s luminous green mountains. Just magnificent.

Australia takes seriously the trust Solomon Islands places in us to partner with them on security support for the Pacific Games. This morning I met with ADF and NZDF SIAF members, recently deployed to Honiara to support Solomon Islands to deliver a safe and secure Pacific Games.

As the 52nd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting gets underway in Rarotonga, Graeme Smith 史林 and I take a look at what's on the table from two key external partners. #PIFLM52 theconversation.com/both-the-us-an…

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Quite the transition from Beijing - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese lands in Cook Islands for the PIF leaders meeting

Is this a world record? Vanuatu could have its FOURTH Prime Minister in the space of 10 WEEKS after a no confidence motion was lodged against Charlot Salwai last night. Our reporters in Port Vila say ppl are gobsmacked. Many are still waiting for aid after last month’s TC Lola…

#Vanuatu and #Tuvalu were the first countries to endorse the #FossilFuelTreaty! 🇻🇺🇹🇻 Great to reunite & strategize for #COP28 with Hon. Kausea Natano and Ralph Regenvanu at #PIFLM52 where big ocean nations are rallying for a #FossilFreePacific! ✊

Not to sound too cynical, but if 280 people per year leave for Australia, the last Tuvaluan will leave the islands in 2081, which might or might not still be there by then. I'm not being bitter. Just a thought experiment to try to visualise exactly what we're talking about here.

Text from Australia's colonisation of Tuvalu "Falepili Union treaty" - the deal includes giving Canberra total military control over a sovereign Pacific state. dfat.gov.au/geo/tuvalu/aus…

“Australia could have offered the visa migration scheme to Tuvalu with no strings attached. Instead, just as China has done with its 'strategic comprehensive partnerships,' it has embedded a good gesture inside a larger strategic relationship” un-diplomatic.com/p/the-blue-pac…

Yeah, naah... Pacific Forum summit says West Papua is Indonesian forumsec.org/wp-content/upl…

Should call is the Pacific ‘war’ games!

This book is always worth revisiting, but especially so in the wake of the Australia-Tuvalu agreement: Greg Fry, 'Framing the islands: power and diplomatic agency in Pacific regionalism', ANU Press, 2019. library.oapen.org/bitstream/hand…

The amazing work of my colleagues in the Development Policy Centre was central to the speech by Minister Andrew Giles MP today. On Monday I was reminiscing w/ Stephen Howes about its establishment years ago. This is great recognition of all their work 👏 minister.homeaffairs.gov.au/AndrewGiles/Pa…

DAY 16 #28DaysToCOP28 “Every second breath that we take comes from a healthy ocean.” This #COP28, the climate-ocean nexus must be front and centre of negotiations. Pacific Community Coral Pasisi explains how we all must be innovative in protecting and valuing our oceans for the future.

Grateful to be re-engaging the Pacific. linkedin.com/posts/pacific-…

Democracy at risk: King George V’s 2010 warning ignored as Eke gov’t surrenders Foreign Affairs to monarchy kanivatonga.co.nz/2025/08/democr… via @Kaniva Tonga News

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