Oceania

Australia is the latest Indo-Pacific country to reach a trade deal with post-Brexit Britain.

New research links the Maori people to possibly discovering Antarctica long before Europeans and Americans.

The past year has seen a chill descend over relations between Canberra and Beijing.

Australia’s Sikh community has been providing thousands of free meals a day to those whose incomes have been restricted by lockdown measures. 

An alliance of civil society organizations in Fiji has demanded the economy minister’s resignation amid a bleak economic outlook. 

Samoa’s neighbors have mostly fallen short on backing the new democratically elected prime minister amid a “bloodless coup.”

The massive surge in rodent numbers threatens “an absolute economic and social crisis in rural and regional New South Wales.”

The dawning of a new political era in Samoa has proved difficult for the country’s longtime rulers to accept.

Last month, Fiame Naomi Mata'afa was elected Samoa's first ever female prime minister.

The recent Australian budget leaves little breathing room for Pacific Island nations.

The premiers of New South Wales and Victoria could once again become Australia’s most powerful political actors.