Tough choices dealing with COVID-19 in the Pacific
Monday
6th July
2020
Tess Newton Cain shares her insights on the tough choices Pacific Island Countries have to make when dealing with the…
Category Archive: Feature series
Coronavirus in the Pacific: weekly briefing
Wednesday
8th July
2020
Tess Newton Cain and Dan McGarry share their weekly update on Covid-19 in the Pacific.
We can’t allow Pacific leaders to use coronavirus as a cover for authoritarianism
Wednesday
5th August
2020
“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Across the Pacific, leaders are holding fast to the old political maxim.
‘We are in dire straits’: Pacific stands on COVID brink amid surging infections
Friday
4th September
2020
Rising cases in Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia, and Guam raise fears of uncontrolled coronavirus outbreaks across Pacific.
New Caledonians will vote again on independence. Will the answer this time be ‘Oui’?
Thursday
1st October
2020
On October 4, New Caledonians will go to the polls. For the second time in the past two years, they…
From the Forum Foreign Ministers…
Thursday
22nd October
2020
Last week, the Foreign Ministers of the Pacific Islands Forum met as one of the standing committees of the inter-governmental…
Calls for a COVID ‘kava bubble’ as supply from Pacific to Australia dries up
Monday
26th October
2020
Kava-crisis - With little of the homemade Pacific brew available in Australia, prices have skyrocketed, and there’s been a spike…
Pacific predictions 2021
Monday
18th January
2021
TESS NEWTON CAIN | COVID continues As is the case the world over, the early part of 2021…
Papua New Guineans farewell the Grand Chief in Brisbane
Monday
15th March
2021
TESS NEWTON CAIN | In the heart of Brisbane, the PNG community came together to mark the passing…
How are Pacific businesses really doing?
Friday
19th March
2021
TESS NEWTON CAIN | For the first of our Pacific Outlook webinars of 2021, the Pacific Hub partnered…