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Leaders from across the region are gathering in New Caledonia, to attend the 12th General Assembly of the Pacific Conference of Churches.

A landmark case is under way to prosecute Australia for failing in its duty to fight climate change and protect the First Nations people of the Torres Strait, with significance for all Pacific island communities threatened by rising seas.

Reimagining Pacific regionalism A rare conjunction of events is emerging. The events are both directional and prescriptive. The conjunction’s rarity is evocative. The conjunction provides an opportunity for Pacific regionalism (or the Pacific Islands Forum, PIF) to reinvent itself in order to capture the lost grounds it has frittered away since its genesis. The calendrical end-of-the-year is synergised by institutional, exceptional and wider regional and global events whose essences can a...

Theresa Fox Theresa Fox 13 December, 2020, 7:45 pm Susau Nonu listens to the tide that tells him when to go out fi shing. He hears the fi sh that whisper to him through their habits, where to find them. Picture: THERESA FOX TRUE as a homing beacon, Susau Nonu always came back home to Rotuma. His eyes twinkled as he glanced over the blue hues of the ocean muttering, “It’s the fishing that brings me back”. “I’ve been to Suva four times but came back.” Using a fishing line he fastened ...