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‘Declaration of partnership’: US inks new Pacific pact in wake of China’s regional interest
Admitting that Pacific nations have been given “short shrift” for years, the US has sought to make amends in the region of growing interest to China.
- by Farrah Tomazin
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From the Archives, 1987: Fiji a republic, claims Rabuka
The future of Fiji remained in the balance after Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka claimed he had sacked the Governor-General and scrapped the constitution.
- by Patrick Walters, Mary-Louise O'Callaghan and Glenn Milne
Solomon Islands tells UN it’s been ‘unfairly targeted’ over relationship with China
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare says his country had been subjected to a barrage of unwarranted and misplaced criticisms, misinformation and intimidation.
- by David Brunnstrom and Michael Martina
Alert level raised for New Zealand volcano that caused largest eruption in 5000 years
Geological agency GeoNet has detected almost 700 small earthquakes below Lake Taupo, the caldera created by the giant volcano.
- by Lucy Craymer
New Zealand republic debate complicated by Maori treaty
Constitutional experts say the government’s obligations under the treaty wouldn’t need to change if New Zealand became a republic, but that hasn’t reassured all Maori.
- by Nick Perry
New Zealand scraps most remaining COVID rules as cases wane
New Zealand has removed most of its remaining COVID-19 restrictions as the government signalled a return to normalcy.
- by Nick Perry
‘Tragic event’: Five dead after boat capsizes
Five people are dead after a boat was struck by what is believed to be a whale near Kaikoura on New Zealand’s South Island.
- by Amy Ridout
Solomon Islands accepts Australia’s offer to fund elections then delays the vote
Two days after saying it was “foreign interference”, Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has accepted Australia’s offer to fund the national elections.
- by Kirsty Needham
Chinese duo accused of trying to create micro-state in South Pacific
The charges come against a backdrop of growing geopolitical competition between China and the United States in the strategic Indo-Pacific region.
- by Nicola Smith
Fake doctor examined dozens of patients over six months at busy Auckland hospital
Yuvaraj Krishnan was only caught after a colleague recognised him as a fake student from university a decade earlier.
- by Edward Gay
From the Archives, 1942: The Battle of Milne Bay
80 years ago, the Herald spoke to members of an Australian garrison which had recently repelled a Japanese invasion force at Milne Bay, New Guinea.
- by Staff reporter