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Australia must prepare for environmental migrants - academic

 

Updated 6 December 2012, 9:46 AEST

Australia must prepare for environmental migrants.…

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Added by Stacey King on December 7, 2012 at 9:26am — 1 Comment

Australian refugee group raises concerns over protests in Nauru

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA Updated 23 October 2012, 10:56 AEST

An Australian refugee advocacy group has criticised comments made by Australian opposition politicians suggesting that asylum seekers should be kept in offshore processing centres for a minimum of five years.…

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Added by Stacey King on October 23, 2012 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Nauru signs Australia's work agreement

ABC RADIO Pacific Beat - Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:35:18 +1000

Nauru has become the first Pacific nation to formalise the seasonal worker scheme with Australia which comes in to effect next month.

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Added by Stacey King on June 22, 2012 at 8:32am — No Comments

Pacific Island food showcased at Fine Foods - Banaban Organic Virgin Coconut Oil

September 16, 2011 | Author

Fine Foods Australia has earned the reputation as Australia’s only truly international event for the food industry. It is the place to find the newest and best products and services on offer and stay abreast of what’s hot and happening in the industry.…
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Added by Stacey King on September 16, 2011 at 4:25pm — 1 Comment

Breadfruit could follow in Papaya’s impressive footsteps



July 29, 2011 Pacific Island Trade Commission
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Added by Stacey King on July 29, 2011 at 2:16pm — No Comments

More families flee from Carteret Islands' rising sea

ABC RADIO Pacific Beat Updated June 2, 2011 16:57:42

The call by the Solomon Islands opposition leader for more effort helping displaced Pacific Islanders rather than asylum seekers from outside the region is gaining support.



Dr Derek Sikua made the comments while criticising a push by the Solomon Islands Government to open a processing centre on behalf of Australia on Stirling Island.…

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Added by Stacey King on June 3, 2011 at 9:49am — No Comments

Tributes for Lionel Rose - first Aboriginal world boxing champion

Updated May 9, 2011 08:15:29



Tributes are flowing for Australian legend Lionel Rose - the first Aboriginal world boxing champion.



At just nineteen, Rose won a World Bantamweight Championship when he beat Japan's Masahiko "Fighting" Harada over fifteen rounds in Tokyo.



Lionel Rose, has died - he was 62 and had been having heart problems and recently suffered a serious stroke.



Another former Aboriginal world…

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Added by Stacey King on May 9, 2011 at 7:44pm — No Comments

Pacific cancer patients struggle to find treatment

Cancer sufferers in the Pacific are finding it more difficult to get treatment. American Samoan health officials have stopped referring cancer patients overseas because of the high costs and there are few options for patients in other…

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Added by Stacey King on February 18, 2011 at 8:50am — No Comments

Sad end to turtle's epic swim from Vanuatu to Australia

Pacific Beat ABC Radio Australia Updated November 16, 2010 09:18:01

Now to the remarkable tale of a Hawksbill turtle that was tagged in Vanuatu and swam more than 2-thousand kilometres to Brooms Head in northern New South Wales on Australia's east coast . . . only to die shortly afterwards.

Andrew Lugg is the area manager for the National Parks and Wildlife Service in Grafton near where the turtle was found.

Presenter: Helene Hofman

Speaker: Andrew Lugg,…

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Added by Stacey King on November 17, 2010 at 10:01am — No Comments

Australia could learn from successful NZ seasonal workers scheme

Pacific Beat ABC Radio Australia Updated November 17, 2010 09:19:54

Two years after it was first introduced, New Zealand's seasonal worker scheme has exceeded expectations.

Not only have participating Pacific Islanders seen their household incomes increase by 30 percent, but growers have benefited too, with a steady flow of reliable and affordable labourers.

But just across the Tasman in Australia, a similar pilot scheme has failed to get off the ground.

While New…

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Added by Stacey King on November 17, 2010 at 9:54am — No Comments

New Pacific Law course at Sydney Uni sparks wide interest

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA - Pacific Beat Updated July 29, 2010 16:18:59

Sydney University has introduced a new Pacific Law course to its Masters program that will be available, online, to students in the region. Although the course will be not be offered until January, next year, it has sparked interest from many Pacific countries and from the United States mainland. John Ridgeway, from the Pacific Legal Network, is one of the lecturers and he told Jemima Garrett the course will be the most…

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Added by Stacey King on July 30, 2010 at 8:03am — No Comments

Extremely rare coral discovered in Marshall Islands

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA - Pacific Beat Updated July 29, 2010 16:18:59

An extremely rare type of coral has been discovered in the Marshall islands. A variant of Elkhorn coral, which until now has been thought to be found only in the Atlantic, was found by researchers from Australia at Arno atoll. Dr Zoe Richards of the Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland, says the find is very exciting.

Presenter: Bruce…

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Added by Stacey King on July 30, 2010 at 8:01am — No Comments

Nauru visit on cards for Australian opposition MP

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA - Pacific Beat Updated July 26, 2010 07:13:09

Australia's federal opposition is moving to put Nauru back on the map as an immigration processing centre for Australia.

The opposition's shadow minister for immigration, Scott Morrison, is considering a visit to Nauru soon.

He says the opposition would take any early opportunity to talk with leaders of…

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Added by Stacey King on July 27, 2010 at 6:02pm — No Comments

Claims Fijian tourists are applying for Australian protection visas

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA - Pacific Beat Updated July 26, 2010 16:55:51

Sources in Australia's Fijian and Indo-Fijian communities claim more and more people from Fiji are arriving in Australia as tourists and then applying for protection visas. The department of immigration says actual figures on this are unavailable, but all cases are decided on a case by case basis, and there's no blanket policy covering…

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Added by Stacey King on July 27, 2010 at 5:58pm — No Comments

Gold Coast Bulletin News story: Nature Pacific's Banaban Virgin Coconut Oil



Liza Coker uses organic coconut oil produced by a Burleigh based company Picture: Kit de Guymer

Stephanie Bedo | July 8th, 2010 | Gold Coast Bulletin

**Australians are learning all about the…

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Added by Stacey King on July 8, 2010 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

Banabans seek $2m in damage

Theresa Ralogaivau Thursday, July 01, 2010 FIJI TIMES ONLIN

BANABANS living on Rabi Island in Cakaudrove have appealed to Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Britain to help them raise $2m to rehabilitate their homeland, Ocean Island or Banaba, from the ravages of 100 years of phosphate mining.

Rabi Council of Leaders chairman Dr Paulo Vanualailai said they want to mitigate the damage.

"We are serious about this and want to commence…

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Added by Stacey King on July 1, 2010 at 9:02am — 1 Comment

Australia tightens immigration policy

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA Updated May 17, 2010 17:41:43

In a further tightening of Australia's immigration policy, the government is releasing a new list of occupations required for migrants seeking to come to the country without the support of business. The list has been produced by the statutory research body, Skills Australia. It puts an end to people coming to Australia for short courses in subjects like cooking or hairdressing and then gaining…

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Added by Stacey King on May 18, 2010 at 10:39am — No Comments

'Starving' islanders saved by sailor's chance trip

CNN Top Stories 11 May 2010

Residents of Kanton Island said they were malnourished and starving because a government supply ship hadn't been able to get there.



A British sailor delivering a yacht from Hawaii to Australia may have been a life-saver for 24 inhabitants of a remote Pacific island.



Yachtsman Alex…

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Added by Stacey King on May 12, 2010 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Tsunami spreads through Pacific after Chile quake

Nations around the Pacific Ocean are on full alert as a tsunami triggered by a 8.8 magnitude earthquake in central Chile brings higher than normal waves. Tsunami warnings have been sounded in an area affecting about a quarter of the globe. Waves have spread from the epicentre of quake and may strike land bordering the Pacific in the next 24 hours.Warning systems have improved since the 2004 Indonesia quake sparked a tsunami that killed nearly 250,000…

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Added by Stacey King on February 28, 2010 at 7:32am — 1 Comment

Kangaroo meat a healthy alternative to lamb flaps?

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA

Updated January 19, 2010 16:41:39



Pacific Island countries which import fatty cuts of meat such as lamb flaps could help combat the epidemic of obesity in the region if they replaced those cuts of meat with kangaroo. The Kangaroo Industry Association of Australia says that currently only Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia and a few upmarket hotels in other island… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 20, 2010 at 8:16am — No Comments

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