Pacific Islanders Archives

Vijay Prashad’s visit to Boorloo/Perth, 5 November 2024.

Issue #2125

The Pacific – To live in peace

For the past few weeks I have been on the road in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Australia at the invitation of groups such as Te...

Issue #1987

Let’s look at the reasons why Pacific Islanders hate nuclear and AUKUS

Between 1946 and 1958, the United States tested sixty-seven nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands.

Issue #2016

DINGO

At its Jobs and Skills Summit in September, the federal government will respond to staff shortages in nursing and aged care with a plan to...

Issue #2015

DINGO

Amid attempts to drag Australia into the nuclear cycle, news from France casts yet another pall over the non-future of nuclear fission. France gets about...

Issue #2080

Anti-colonial resistance in the Pacific

Resistance to the plans of successive Australian governments to create an Australian colonial empire in the Pacific has taken many forms over time. In 2006,...

Issue #2139

Trump deports hundreds of Pacific Islanders

While the United States’ mainstream media has covered the recent mass deportations to Mexico and Venezuela, it has paid little attention to the mass deportation...

Issue #2038

Colonialism’s dead hand

In 2000 the same issues of land ownership and forms of government were behind the conflict of the two opposing “freedom” fighter groups which erupted...

Issue #2108

Jim Chalmers: ‘you can bank on us’

Australian Treasurer, Jim Chalmers’, has announced that the government will inject $6.3 million for initiatives to bolster Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism laws in the...

Issue #2154

NAIDOC 2025 – The Next Generation

Fifty years ago NAIDOC, the National Aboriginal and Islanders Day Observance Committee, was commissioned to celebrate just one special day. Since 1975 it has become...

Issue #2192

Climate change: UN landmark resolution

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) last week voted with overwhelming support to adopt a landmark resolution led by Vanuatu and 12 other countries which...

Tokelau Warriors: We are not drowning. We are fighting.

Issue #2079

The rough deal facing climate refugees

As the consequence of the world’s inaction on climate intensifies, the effects are felt more acutely by those who did the least to cause them....

Issue #2100

Arms corporations win, People lose

Australians will be poorer but not more secure as a result of the massive increase in military spending in the next financial year outlined in...

Issue #2206

The Pacific Islands Forum

The 55th annual Pacific Islands Forum was held against the backdrop of a UN report warning that the world will likely pass 1.5°C global warming...

Issue #2149

Woodside gas project extension and COP31

The Pacific Elders’ Voice (PEV) notes with deep concern the recent decision by the Government of Australia (GOA) to extend the lifetime of its Woodside...

Issue #2206

Coal mine approval as Albanese meets Pacific leaders

Greenpeace Australia Pacific has branded the Albanese government’s approval of BHP’s coal mine extension in Central Queensland an affront to Pacific leaders and communities grappling...