Pacific Beat ABC News
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Focusing on the Pacific region, the program brings you interviews with leaders, newsmakers, and people who make the Pacific beat.
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Fijian Drua out to end their away day hoodoo and topple the Blues in Super Rugby Pacific quarter-final
The Fijian Drua have won just once away from home in their first three seasons, but older and wiser now, coach Mick Byrne believes they can find a way past the Blues in the last eight.
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PNG parliament speaker halts motion of no confidence against PM James Marape
Papua New Guinea opposition MPs are infuriated after their motion of no confidence against Prime Minister James Marape, was disallowed from progressing because of a "paper work error".
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Pacific Island Forum welcomes new Secretary General
Nauru's former President Baron Waqa was welcomed this week as the new head of the Pacific Islands Forum. Waqa's appointment as Secretary General looks to heal a rift between Forum member nations and Micronesian countries who walked out of the body in 2021, following the appointment of Henry Puna. Waqa's appointment means an early exit for Puna who misses a second term in office.
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Samoa scales down independence celebrations
This week Samoa marks 62 years of independence. Celebrations haven been scaled down from previous years, following a decision by Government to only hold grand celebrations every five years.
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Australia opens Pacific Engagement Visa to 3,000 Pacific Islanders
One of Australia's biggest diplomatic efforts to develop closer relations with the Pacific starts today with the opening of the Pacific Engagement Visa. It will allows 3,000 Pacific Islanders to permanently settle in Australia every year.
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Concerns of more landslides in Enga Province
Humanitarian aid has begun flowing into Enga province with a number of Australian and New Zealand aid teams set to arrive in the disaster zone today. Among the task force arriving are geological experts from Australia and New Zealand, who will conduct a study of the disaster zone. It comes as authorities raise questions over the death toll with local government officials disputing figures put out by the national government.