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Active community testing required on an intermittent basis to see ‘the whole iceberg, not just the tip’, Prof Catherine Bennett says
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Department of Health says improvements are due to vaccine coverage, hybrid immunity and ready access to treatment
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People around the world have seen the horror of the wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Its historic city, Lahaina — formerly the capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom — burning to the ground, people trying to escape into the ocean, or by car, cars burning and more.
The death toll had (...)
Governor says death toll in Lahaina is expected to rise after ‘worst natural disaster that Hawaii ever faced’
Visual guide to the explosive blaze that razed Lahaina : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/11/how-what-hawaii-fires-started-maui-photo-update
At least 93 people have (...)
Maui County issued an ‘unsafe water’ alert and urged precautions. Residents can face several toxic hazards from fires, as an expert in the chemical risks from fires explains.
People returning to what remains of the beachside town of Lahaina, Hawaii, and other Maui communities after one of (...)
On 30 April, the Polynesian pro-independence Tavini party won a solid majority in the Territorial Assembly for the first time. This confirms a real change in the political landscape in the archipelago, marked last year by the victory of the Tavini for the three seats in the French National (...)
Deanna “Violet” Coco this month was sentenced to fifteen months’ jail, with a non-parole period of eight months, for the “crime” of blocking one lane of traffic on a Sydney bridge for 25 minutes as part of a climate change protest. She has since been released on bail pending an appeal, but a (...)
Fijians go to the polls next week, but the country’s constitution still entrenches ultimate power and authority in the military.
When Fijians elect a new parliament on December 14, it’s likely their votes will be counted fairly – yet the country will remain a conditional and fragile (...)
Eight months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine, the realities and aims of his brutal war of aggression are evident for all to see: Tens of thousands of civilian deaths, mass graves, widespread torture and rape, the forced transfer of children to Russia and (...)
Washington puts the island of Guam, but not the people of Guam, at the center of its military strategy in the Pacific.
The RIMPAC exercise once again underscores the role of the islands and region in warfighting strategy as well as the complex and even paradoxical nature of “defending” and (...)
Australian governments and their counterparts around the world have largely succeeded in desensitising us to avoidable mass deaths and disease. In the week to 6 July, 294 people died of COVID-19 in Australia, more than 40 a day.
In May, OzSAGE, an organisation of health-related experts, (...)
The chants rang out through cities and towns around the world as protesters defiantly challenged the US Supreme Court’s 1 July decision to end national access to abortion: “We won’t go back!” and “Our bodies! Our lives! Our right to decide!”
The decision has encouraged bigots everywhere, (...)
A former Peace Corps volunteer shares her experience seeing the impacts of US nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands conducted between 1946 and 1958—and calls for an apology and justice
We were innocent 21-year-olds entering an organization called the Peace Corps in 1969. We came from all (...)
As America celebrates Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month this May, a former undersecretary of state for arms control and international security remembers the painful history of Castle Bravo—the largest and most catastrophic US nuclear weapons test conducted in the Marshall Islands during (...)
Hal Greenland asseses the dramatic shift to the centre left in Australia after the weekend federal elections.
On Saturday, the Australian federal elections resulted in a dramatic shift to the centre-left in a poll that saw the emergence of a batch of insurgent feminist politicians. The (...)
After nine years of ruling for the rich, the Coalition government’s primary vote dropped by more than 6 percent and it lost a slew of seats—and government—in yesterday’s federal election. This was a public judgement of its agenda of tax cuts for the well-off, wage cuts for workers, inaction on (...)
A huge tourist boom on Mo’orea Island has seen privatisation of coastline, with just three public beaches left
Last November more than 2,000 people arrived on Temae beach, the heart of Mo’orea island in French Polynesia.
The gathering was a a traditional cultural ceremony called a tahei, (...)
The two unions representing workers in New Zealand ports say their members are reluctant to work Russian flagged ships in New Zealand ports and are looking at methods of protest following the outbreak of war.
Both New Zealand unions are affiliated to the International Transport Workers (...)
On the occupation at parliament
-# New Zealand has one of the lowest rates of death from COVID in the world, and is now facing the rapid spread of the Omicron variant. Mask wearing, vaccination, vaccine mandates and contact tracing are collective responses to COVID, and collective responses (...)
The virus has swept into remote island countries, sowing panic and confusion.
Previously Covid-free island nations in the Pacific have experienced their first outbreaks of the virus in the past three weeks.
Covid-free for almost two years, some Pacific island nations are suddenly (...)
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