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Pacific health officials are attending too many meetings in return for aid and not enough time "doing their jobs", a policy expert says. Researchers and policymakers from across the region have...

Papua New Guinea is facing a health crisis with medical officials warning that multi-drug resistant tuberculosis is such a serious public health threat that will become an unmanageable national...

Updated 3 February 2015, 6:05 AEDT By PNG correspondent Liam Cochrane Papua New Guinea grants refugee status to a further 30 men on Manus Island but also amends laws to allow asylum seekers to be...

Work to resettle refugees within the community in Nauru will continue this year under a new agency, which has taken over the Australian Government contract from the international advocacy group, Save...

By Papua New Guinea correspondent Liam Cochrane and staff Asylum seekers inside the Manus Island processing centre have sewn their lips together in protest at their lengthy detention, poor living...

It's been 10 years since countries right across the Indian Ocean were devastated by a tsunami, which had been triggered by a massive undersea earthquake. In the time since then, the Pacific region...

People in Tonga are being urged to conserve their drinking water, as a drought continues to grip much of the country. Water shortage plans have been activated, with thousands of litres of safe...

By Robert Virtue On December 28th 2014, Newcastle will stop to remember the 25th anniversary of the city's devastating earthquake. At 10.27am on Thursday, December 28th 1989, the NSW city of...

Suva's main hospital has received a much needed delivery of more than 7000 litres of safe drinking water from Fiji Water, as supplies continue to be disrupted. Audio: Fiji Water keeps hospital...

Water security is a major challenge for most if not all the Pacific Island countries, and not least Palau. Audio: Palau's water security project targets outlying states But the problem is considered...

Two people are dead after significant flooding in Fiji over the weekend washed away roads and damaged a major water treatment plant that supplies potable water to most of the capital, Suva. The two...

By political correspondent Lyndal Curtis Audio: Scott Morrison offers significant concessions as Senate debates migration bill The Federal Government has announced an increase in the refugee intake...

By Steven Schubert and Nadia Daly Video: A pregnant woman spotted at a Darwin detention centre (ABC News) Two heavily pregnant women who had refused to leave a bus for more than three days were...

By Felicity James An Australian company setting up an Ebola treatment centre in West Africa has confirmed the hospital should be ready to take patients by early December. In early November the...

Health authorities in French Polynesia are struggling to cope with an outbreak of the mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus. It is thought that thousands of new cases have emerged in recent weeks. ...

By Papua New Guinea correspondent Liam Cochrane Papua New Guinea will start making final decisions on the refugee status of asylum seekers detained on Manus Island and prepare them for resettlement...

By Papua New Guinea correspondent Liam Cochrane Australian soldiers have cleared more than six tonnes of unexploded hand grenades and mortars from a World War II battle site on the island of...

Six months after devastating floods in Solomon Islands, the clean up is continuing. Solomons still recovering from April floods (Credit: ABC) 22 people were killed and 9,000 left homeless when flash...

By political correspondent Emma Griffiths The Federal Government has revealed that 12 asylum seeker boats have been turned back at sea since the Government's border protection policy was implemented. ...

Updated 8 September 2014, 10:16 AEST There's no doubt with experts from one hundred countries in Samoa, the SIDS conference was a melting pot for an exchange of ideas and initiatiives. When it comes...