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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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Fresh calls for the US to clean up its World War Two explosives and ordinances in the Pacific

There’s fresh calls for the US to clean up bombs and wrecks from the Second World War which are scattered all over the Pacific, including in Papua New Guinea.

Published: with Agnes Tupou

Duration: 41 minutes 49 seconds

Calls for US to clean up dangerous WW2 remnants

Papua New Guinea military personnel are calling on the United States to do more to help clean up unexploded ordinance left over from World War Two.

Published: by Kyle Evans

soldiers climbing muddy Kokoda track
Duration: 5 minutes 59 seconds

Vanuatu tops global happy list for the second time

Vanuatu has topped the Happy Planet Index list for the second time ranking number one out of 150 countries worldwide for 2024.

Published: by Leah Lowonbu

Ol smiling faces blong Vanuatu long Macfest long Port Vila (H. Bule)
Duration: 6 minutes 8 seconds

Pacific activists head to Canberra for climate protest

Australia's capital Canberra will be the site of climate protest by activists from the Pacific.

Published: with Agnes Tupou

Wide of Parliament House in Canberra in September 2013.
Duration: 6 minutes 58 seconds

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