📢 Update: Our statement “France Must Pay Its Dues to the Pacific” is now available in French. Read it here: 🔗 pang.org.fj/2935-2/ #DecoloniseThePacific #UNOC2025

France is not a “long-standing partner” in the Pacific — it is an oppressive colonial power. Let’s be clear: France is the external force that continues to coerce, cajole, and constrain the Pacific. Our region deserves self-determination, not occupation #FreeKanaky #FreeMaohiNui

Never ever trust politicians who tell us that AUKUS is the way to go. #AUKUS will be our biggest mistake.

Australia, New Zealand and Fiji deepen military ties fijitimes.com.fj/australia-new-… #Fiji #FijiNews

Continued disappointment and disgust in Fiji's position. Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka Fiji Government the 55,000 Palestinians killed mean nothing. Women and Children. The delusion of your salvation in the so called biblical Israel is a stain on your souls, if you have any.

i’m thinking of mohamad abu al qumsan, whose wife and newborn twins were murdered as he went to pick up their birth certificates. may the ghosts of all the families you have helped to blow apart haunt you for the rest of your pathetic, genocide-enabling life

Romitesh Kant , PhD scholar from our Department of Pacific Affairs (DPA), speaks to ABC about Fijian politician Lynda Tabuya and how cyberbullying is weaponised to silence Pacific women in politics. 🎧: quicklink.anu.edu.au/0979 ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

New Zealand has paused its core sector support funding for the Cook Islands after its government signed partnership agreements with China earlier this year, Winston Peters' office says.rnz.co.nz/news/political…

Mark Brown: Cook Islands 'not consulted' on NZ-China agreements rnz.co.nz/international/…

If you haven't done so already -- read, then read again, and share widely:

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Let’s be clear: there’s no justification for #NZ supporting military action against Iran. Anticipatory “self defence” asserted by Israel is highly legally contestable. Imminent threat wasn’t established. As with Iraq 2003, stay out! theconversation.com/are-israels-ac… rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Bougainville finally gets all Rio shares in Bougainville Copper rnz.co.nz/international/…

Much needed insights from this stellar lineup of Pacific authors on strategies for increasing Pacific Islander research and authorship in the academic literature. Appreciation to everyone making headway in this space! 𝗥𝘂𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗼 𝗩𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗮 Romitesh Kant et al publish.csiro.au/PC/PC25011

A few years ago, I asked if people on here would be interested to read an article on Kanak women's revolutionary politics and organizing in 1970s-1980s. It's here, open access: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

"Female leadership, justice for gender-based violence and the cultural values of respect, care and honour are not foreign concepts: they are embedded in our Melanesian cultures," says Anna Naupa. Department of Pacific Affairs (DPA) ANU College of Asia and the Pacific #Vanuatu #genderequality devpolicy.org/the-next-45-ye…

"I believe firmly that the Forum belongs to its members, not countries that are non-members," said President Heine Monday in parliament's opening ceremony. rnz.co.nz/international/…

As the UN meets to negotiate an international treaty to curb plastic pollution, many favour carbon credit-like offsetting. So what is plastic offsetting, and does it work? 🔗: aje.io/8g3ob9

Join PhD candidate Romitesh Kant (DPA, ANU) as he explores how #masculinities shape #leadership, legitimacy & #power in #Fiji’s politics. 🗓️ Wed, 27 Aug, 10:30am - 12pm AEST 📍 shorturl.at/TQuWi ANUBellSchool