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The author of the much-anticipated White Paper on the Asian Century says Australia can't afford to be complacent about its place in the world.

In a turbulent year for Papua New Guinea politics, excitement and tension are building for elections due soon. Former PNG Correspondent and current Pacific Correspondent Sean Dorney has covered many PNG elections since Independence, and in this address to the Australia-PNG Business Conference, asks the question "Is the Westminster system of government right for PNG?"

A proud Cook Islander, the Speaker of the Cook Islands Parliament, Sir Geoffrey Henry, who earlier had led his country for more than a decade, died on Wednesday night at home surrounded by his family. He was 72.

There are predictions that Burma could be a new Asian tiger as sanctions ease and international companies are able to invest in the previously shuttered economy.

The father of the Papua New Guinea nation, the man who took the country to independence from Australia 37 years ago is finally about to retire. Or is he? Pacific Correspondent Sean Dorney looks back on the remarkable career of Michael Thomas Somare.