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Focusing on the Pacific region, the show features interviews with leaders, newsmakers, and people who make the Pacific beat. Tune in each morning and afternoon on ABC Radio Australia to keep-up-to-date on the happenings in the Pacific.

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PNG dawn service highlights Pacific contributions to WW2

Tune in each morning and afternoon to keep-up-to-date on the happenings in the Pacific.

Published: with Agnes Tupou

Duration: 45 minutes 4 seconds

PNG dawn service highlights Pacific contributions to WW2

For Australians, the trek by the diggers along the infamous Kokoda Trail is forever etched into the country's military history. 

Published:

A view of mountains under clouds, with bananas trees and other green vegetation in front.
Duration: 7 minutes 8 seconds

Search on for Solomon Islands PM

The incumbent pro-Chinese prime minister Manasseh Sogavare leads a crowded pack, even though his party lost more than half its seats.

Published: by Chrisnrita Aumanu-Leong

A man wearing a suit and a flower garland around his neck holds a microphone and points upwards.
Duration: 3 minutes 57 seconds

Kiribati govt legal battle with Australian judge could be coming to a close

A tribunal report recommending the dismissal of suspended Judge David Lambourne has been tabled in parliament and will be debated today. 

Published:

David Lambourne airport
Duration: 8 minutes 34 seconds

Coalition govt likely for Solomon Islands, with lobbying underway

Australian National University Researcher Dr Terence Wood says there is no clear winner yet, and a coalition will need to be formed to be the country's next government. 

Published:

An older man in shorts approaches some young booth workers sitting at tressle tables at a voting place.
Duration: 5 minutes 39 seconds

German museum, university return Palauan ancestral remains

The eight ancestors were taken without their communities' knowledge and kept in a museum and a university in Germany for about one hundred years.

Published: by Dubravka Voloder

Duration: 6 minutes 28 seconds

Samoa declares dengue outbreak as cases soar

There have been more than  200 cases since November last year.

Published: by Adel Fruean

Mosquito biting human skin.
Duration: 3 minutes 56 seconds

Pacific delegates use Canada talks to push for global treaty on plastic pollution

The delegates are joining more than 2,000 delegates representing member states, observer organisations and UN entities at the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee.

Published: by Reporter Mackenzie Smith

A plastic bottle lies among other debris washed ashore on the Indian Ocean beach in Sri Lanka.
Duration: 4 minutes 25 seconds

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