Stacey King's Blog Posts Tagged 'Vanuatu' (9)

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA Updated December 21, 2011 09:44:05

A program which allows people from the Pacific to work for a limited period mainly in Australia's horticultural industry is to be expanded.



A three-year test scheme will enable people to work in the tourism, cane and cotton industries.



The original two-thousand-and-eight program allowed up to two-and-a-half thousand workers from Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Tonga and…

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ABC RADIO PACIFIC BEAT Updated December 7, 2010 17:53:14

Free public access computers for children could soon be coming to the Pacific.

India's Hole In The Wall company is expecting final approval from the Ministry of External affairs early next year.

That will see free computer 'learning stations' installed in Fiji, PNG, Nauru, Kiribati and Vanuatu.

The project began as an experiment a decade ago ... placing a single computer in the wall of a New Delhi slum, then…

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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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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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ABC Radio Australia Updated May 31, 2010 16:20:40

A giant plume of volcanic ash is disrupting flights in the Pacific and threatening villagers in Vanuatu, echoing similar problems which caused air traffic chaos in Europe. Forecasters in New Zealand say the cloud, spewing from Vanuatu's Mount Yasur volcano, was about 18-hundred metres high, covering an area of about 200 square kilometres. Tourists have been urged to stay away from the volcano…

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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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Helene Hofman - RADIO AUSTRALIA NEWS Last Updated: 3 hours 15 minutes ago

Of 100 temporary employment visas offered by Australia to workers from Kiribati, Tonga and Vanuatu last year, just 56 were filled. [ABC]



Australia's Pacific seasonal workers scheme may be struggling to get off the ground, two years in a… Continue

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA

Time is running out for a remote tribe in Vanuatu, which worships a most unlikely deity. The people of Yakel on the southern island of Tanna venerate Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He's now England's longest serving royal consort, and is soon to turn 88 years old. It's not clear how the tribe will deal with his inevitable mortality.



Presenter Jeff Waters…



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