The angry reaction to Richard Marles’ comments should be a warning to Canberra about the need to settle past grievances. During a
Bougainville is open for business. This was the undertaking given to potential investors by the Autonomous Bougainville Government President Ishmael Toroama when
In the last 100 years we have had to endure hardships from oppressive regimes who sought to take away our resources, our
Bougainville’s push for independence has hit a constitutional snag with top legal advisors telling the National Government that nothing can usurp the
Plans to hold a referendum in New Caledonia next year on a new statute for the territory are being abandoned. The French
By Nic Maclellan New Caledonia’s third referendum on self-determination under the Noumea Accord has returned an overwhelming majority against independence: 96.5% of
Provisional figures in the New Caledonia referendum on self-determination show an overwhelming No to independence. But this result only comes from the
Many New Caledonians will go to church this Sunday, or visit family or go fishing, and some of them will also drop
In a significant intervention, former Pacific island presidents, prime ministers and senior officials have written to French President Emmanuel Macron, urging him
France’s High Commissioner to New Caledonia, Patrice Faure, has announced that New Caledonia’s referendum on self-determination will proceed on 12 December, despite
Vanuatu was again able to throw the need for social distancing and mask-wearing to the wind as its people sang and danced
After months of delay, New Caledonia finally has a new leader. Louis Mapou was elected as President of New Caledonia on 8
