Australian police to be embedded in Fiji's Police Force under new measures
Australian Federal Police will be embedded in Fiji's Police Force as part of a new raft of measures to strengthen the Vuvale Partnership between the two countries.
A historic chiefly installation is gets underway in the Lau islands in Fiji.
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape says witnesses to so-called sorcery killings will soon be prosecuted alongside perpetrators.
Nuclear radiation survivors in Guam are left heartbroken after being left out of a compensation act under Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill."
Monolithic statues from the remote Polynesian island of Rapa Nui pop up in museums and private collections.
And Australia's Victorian Government grants cultural exemptions for the use of machetes.
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