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Fiji

Fiji floods: Days of torrential rain causes severe flooding and landslides, with more rain forecast

Days of torrential rain have caused severe flooding in parts of Fiji as towns lie underwater, and flood warnings remain in place across much of the country's main island of Viti Levu. After the first...

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  • ABC
Posted
19 Dec 2016
Originally published
19 Dec 2016

World + 7 more

Pacific nations lose shortwave radio services that evade dictators and warn of natural disasters

Alexandra Wake, Senior lecturer, RMIT University Disclosure Statement: Alexandra Wake is an academic who maintains a career as a freelance journalist. Her last assignment for ABC Radio Australia was...

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  • ABC
  • The Conversation
Posted
12 Dec 2016
Originally published
9 Dec 2016

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands earthquakes: Disaster preparedness helped 'save lives', World Vision says

World Vision in Solomon Islands says disaster preparedness was key in saving lives after the country was rattled by two powerful earthquakes. On Friday, a magnitude-7.8 tremor struck off Makira...

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  • ABC
Posted
12 Dec 2016
Originally published
12 Dec 2016

Indonesia

Indonesia earthquake: Thousands left homeless in Aceh province, hospitals struggle with injured

By Indonesia correspondent Samantha Hawley Key points: Number of displaced people jumps from 3,000 to 11,000, authorities say A two-week state of emergency has been declared in the Aceh province...

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  • ABC
Posted
9 Dec 2016
Originally published
9 Dec 2016

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands hit by powerful aftershocks after magnitude-7.8 quake

By Eric Tlozek and wires Key points: Earthquake triggered tsunami warnings across the pacific, but PTWC says threat has largely passed Solomon Islands police still have not heard from southern side...

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  • ABC
Posted
9 Dec 2016
Originally published
9 Dec 2016

Australia + 1 more

Syria war: Peter Dutton open to expanding one-off refugee intake beyond 12,000

By Winsome Denyer The Federal Government would consider expanding Australia's refugee intake for people fleeing war zones in Syria and Iraq, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says. In September last...

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  • ABC
Posted
21 Nov 2016
Originally published
21 Nov 2016

PNG + 2 more

Asylum seekers and refugees in PNG lodge new claim for illegal detention compensation

By Papua New Guinea correspondent Eric Tlozek More than 700 asylum seekers and refugees sent by Australia to Papua New Guinea lodge a new claim for compensation for being illegally detained on Manus...

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  • ABC
Posted
9 Nov 2016
Originally published
8 Nov 2016

Australia + 2 more

Manus Island, Nauru refugees to be banned from entering Australia, Malcolm Turnbull says

By political reporter Dan Conifer The Federal Government will soon move to ban refugees and asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru from ever coming to Australia, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull...

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  • ABC
Posted
30 Oct 2016
Originally published
30 Oct 2016

PNG

Flash flooding in PNG leaves seven dead, authorities say

By Joy Kisselpar Seven people have died in flash flooding in a mountainous part of Papua New Guinea, local authorities reported. Heavy rains over the weekend caused floods all over the province and...

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  • ABC
Posted
18 Oct 2016
Originally published
18 Oct 2016

PNG + 1 more

New transfer centre for detained asylum seekers set for construction, PNG Government says

By Papua New Guinea correspondent Eric Tlozek The Papua New Guinea Government has said construction will start soon on a new detention facility for asylum seekers being sent back to their country of...

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  • ABC
Posted
18 Oct 2016
Originally published
18 Oct 2016

Nauru + 2 more

UN Leaders Summit: Nauru defends involvement in Australia's detention centre program

Nauru's Baron Waqa tells the UN his country's remote processing centre damages the people smuggling trade, but Fiji's PM says more is needed to help displaced people. Nauru's President Baron Waqa has...

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  • ABC
Posted
22 Sep 2016
Originally published
21 Sep 2016

Fiji

Fiji relocates villages vulnerable to natural disasters as part of Cyclone Winston rebuild

As Fiji continues to rebuild after Cyclone Winston devastated large parts of the country in February, entire villages are being relocated because of their vulnerability to natural disasters. ...

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  • ABC
Posted
10 Sep 2016
Originally published
10 Sep 2016

Fiji

Cyclone Winston: Fiji struggles to rebuild six months after storm devastated the country

By Pacific affairs reporter Liam Fox Victims of Cyclone Winston in Fiji struggle to rebuild their lives six months after the category five storm devastated large parts of the country. Victims of...

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  • ABC
Posted
26 Aug 2016
Originally published
26 Aug 2016

Christmas Island (Australia) + 2 more

Asylum seekers who made desperate bid for rescue on makeshift raft dead, coroner says

By Joanna Menagh Three asylum seekers died after setting out on a makeshift raft from a sinking asylum seeker boat in 2013 in a desperate bid to get help, an inquest in the Perth Coroner's Court has...

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  • ABC
Posted
23 Aug 2016
Originally published
22 Aug 2016

Cambodia + 3 more

Australia engages second agency for sole refugee in Cambodia

Key points: Connect Settlement Agency says its program will be "very small" Five refugees were resettled from Nauru to Cambodia, but only one remains Immigration declined to say why the new agency is...

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  • ABC
Posted
11 Aug 2016
Originally published
11 Aug 2016

Australia + 1 more

Nauru data leak paints 'disturbing picture' of refugee abuse, human rights groups say

By political reporter Anna Henderson and staff The leak of a huge archive of files detailing allegations of abuse on Nauru shows the Federal Government has failed to address concerns about the...

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  • ABC
Posted
10 Aug 2016
Originally published
10 Aug 2016

PNG

Manus Island inquiry needed into abuse of asylum seekers: Refugee Action Coalition

An asylum seeker who has spent three years in detention on Manus Island claims he has been assaulted up to a dozen times by security guards. About 900 men are housed at the Manus Island detention...

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  • ABC
Posted
10 Aug 2016
Originally published
10 Aug 2016

PNG

Carteret Island climate refugees make a new home

By Lauren Beldi Carteret climate refugees seek home A grassroots group in Bougainville is scrambling to relocate the Carteret Islanders before rising sea levels swallow their land forever. At only...

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  • ABC
Posted
8 Aug 2016
Originally published
7 Aug 2016

PNG + 1 more

Manus Island detention: Asylum seekers offered 'huge amounts of money' to go home, activist says

by Matt Watson The Federal Government has doubled its financial offer to convince asylum seekers on Manus Island to return home, Refugee Action Coalition spokesman Ian Rintoul said. Mr Rintoul said...

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  • ABC
Posted
1 Aug 2016
Originally published
30 Jul 2016

Fiji

Fiji's high rates of domestic violence compounded by Cyclone Winston, activist says

Fiji has one of the highest levels of domestic violence in the world, and Cyclone Winston has cast a further pall over the situation. The founder and coordinator of FemLinkPacific, Sharon...

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  • ABC
Posted
11 Jul 2016
Originally published
9 Jul 2016

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