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Pacific Beat
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Focusing on the Pacific region, the program brings you interviews with leaders, newsmakers, and people who make the Pacific beat.
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Dubai's Pacific Islands community tightknit amidst attacks
Mar 300:49:38Tap to summarizePacific Islanders in Dubai say the past few days have been incredibly scary, watching missiles streak across the sky and explode as air defences intercept them overhead.
Transcribe →PNG seeks Australian help to evacuate citizens after Iran strikes
Mar 200:48:29Tap to summarizePapua New Guinea turns to Australia for help to evacuate its citizens from the United Arab Emirates in the wake of the US-Israeli attacks on Iran.
Transcribe →Pressure on Fijian president to sack the head of anti-corruption watchdog
Feb 2600:50:15Tap to summarizeA prominent Fijian lawyer is warning of a constitutional crisis if the president doesn't follow through on the advice of the Judicial Legal Services Commission and sack the head of the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption.
Transcribe →Australian foreign minister caught in rugby verbal scrum in Samoa
Feb 2500:45:24Tap to summarizeAustralia's foreign minister got caught up in a verbal scrum over rugby funding during a visit to Samoa.
Transcribe →"We don't want to be second class citizens in another country" - says Tuvalu Climate Minister
Feb 1800:47:43Tap to summarizeTuvalu's Climate Change Minister, Dr Maina Talia told Pacific Beat this morning, that his Government is not encouraging Tuvaluans to permanently leave the country through migration pathways offered in the Falepili treaty.
Transcribe →Regenvanu urges nations to stand firm after US push to drop UN climate motion
Feb 1600:45:50Tap to summarizeVanuatu's Climate Envoy Ralph Regenvanu is urging countries to stay engaged, after the United States pushed for Vanuatu to withdraw a UN motion supporting a landmark climate ruling.
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