World
Oceania
Dad gives burglar boots, food after finding him inside his house
Mike Cammell noticed something was amiss when he arrived home after work on Wednesday night.
- by Debbie Jamieson
Latest
Immigration
Life on Nauru’s ‘Limboland’ examined in new documentary
The frustration of asylum seekers suspended between states is laid bare in a new documentary, Limboland.
- by David McCowen
New Zealand
Six whales refloated after stranding on New Zealand beach
Rescue crews were hoping for a better outcome than from an unrelated stranding over the weekend in which all 145 pilot whales died.
Whales
'The worst experience of my life': Hikers' battle to save pod of beached whales
Liz and Julian were in a remote place with no people and no phone service when they stumbled upon 145 dead and dying whales stranded on a beach.
- by Liz Carlson
Animals
'A heartbreaking decision': 145 whales die after being stranded on island off NZ
About half the pod of pilot whales were already dead by the time they were found, leaving conservation officials with a difficult decision.
New Zealand
New Zealand cruise holiday ends abruptly for Australian man
An Australian man's cruise holiday has ended abruptly after being taken into custody in Dunedin.
- by Tina Law
Soft commodities
Australia saves NZ from stink bug invasion that could hurt kiwi plants, economy
The bugs feed on key crops and a report released this year found New Zealand's annual economic output could fall by NZ$4.2 billion ($3.9 billion).
World Politics
Fiji's PM Bainimarama wins narrow majority
The Pacific nation went to the polls last week for only the second time since Prime Minister Bainimarama seized control in a military coup in 2006.
Sexual assault
Ogled, groped and locked in a cage, Mariya speaks out against NZ Defence Force for 'protecting' rapist
Thirty years after being assaulted at work, Mariya Taylor can still smell her attacker's aftershave.
- by Alison Mau
Good Weekend
'Right on our doorstep': Papua New Guinea's health crises hit home
High maternal death rates. Tuberculosis. Polio. Leprosy. PNG is in the grip of multiple health crises – and that should worry everyone in Australia.
- by Matt Wade
Opinion
Foreign aid
Good work damaged by minister on L plates, but here's how to help our neighbours
The PM needs to use his new $2 billion Pacific infrastructure fund for something both critical and practical.
- by Concetta Fierravanti-Wells