Monday, February 17, 2025

Pacific Roundup

New Australian High Commissioner to Fiji announced

AUSTRALIA/FIJI Peter Roberts OAM has today been announced as Australia’s next High Commissioner to the Republic of Fiji. Mr Roberts is a senior career officer with...

China donates medical supplies to Tongan Ministry of Health

TONGA More than 100 boxes of medical supplies have donated to Tonga's Ministry of Health by the People’s Republic of China in an official handover...

Australian police join global crackdown on cybercrime

AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE / CANBERRA Australia has imposed financial sanctions on five Russian individuals and a cybercriminal infrastructure provider for offering services which enabled notorious...

RNZAF squadron returns to spiritual home in Fiji

A Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P-8A Poseidon from No. 5 Squadron recently returned to its spiritual home in Suva, Fiji, in a...

Team Australia touches down in Canada

AUSTRALIA Team Australia joined around 5,000 attendees at last night’s spectacular opening ceremony for the Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025, which for the first time...

Australian Deputy PM meets with US Defense Secretary

AUSTRALIA/USA US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, met with Australia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles at the Pentagon yesterday to discuss...

Australia joins multilateral maritime cooperative activity

AUSTRALIA Naval and air force units from Australia, Japan, the Philippines and the United States conducted a multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity (MCA) within the Philippines’...

Alarming new nicotine trend banned in South Australia

SOUTH AUSTRALIA South Australia has become the first state in Australia to ban highly addictive nicotine pouches under tough new legislation as part of a...

Kiwi makes history with senior Royal Australian Air Force appointment

Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) Air Commodore Susie Barns has been appointed the Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF) Deputy Air Commander Australia -...

Trade Minister headed to Australian forum

Trade and Investment Minister, Todd McClay, will travel to Australia today for meetings with Australian Trade Minister, Senator Don Farrell, and the Australia New...

HMNZS Manawanui fuel recovery begins

NZDF says a considerable milestone in the Operation Resolution response to the grounding and sinking of HMNZS Manawanui has been reached, with fuel recovery...

HMNZS Manawanui fuel tanks salvage operation poised to begin

Salvage crews working to retrieve fuel tanks from the sunken HMNZS Manawanui are now safely moored above the vessel, tethered to six anchors and...

93 Kiwis evacuated from quake-hit Vanuatu

Multiple Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) flights to Vanuatu this week have delivered emergency responders and tonnes of search and rescue equipment and...

RNZAF ramps up Vanuatu response

A Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) C-130J-30 Hercules left at first light today and has arrived in Port Vila, with search and rescue...

Four new diplomatic appointments announced

Foreign Affairs Minister, Winston Peters, has announced four new diplomatic appointments. The appointments are: Jonathan Austin (pictured, right), Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China; Phillip Taula...