Aug 3, 2010 | IN THE NEWS
MILDA called upon the Forum leaders, and particularly the leaders of the Melanesian states, to reject all policies which require that customary land be registered as a precondition for business or development activities, and to cease all pressures for customary land...
Aug 3, 2010 | IN THE NEWS
At the Cairns Pacific Island Forum Leaders Meeting last year negotiations for PACER-Plus were launched “forthwith”. For Kevin Rudd, as (then) Chair of the Forum, this was both an important public relations coup to deliver to the media and also a key...
Jul 24, 2010 | IN THE NEWS
Aid sceptics, such as William Easterly and Dambisa Moyo, have made a powerful case against not only the waste and perverse impacts of many misguided projects, but also the patronising and disempowering assumptions of ‘northerners’ seeking to shoulder a new...
Jul 21, 2010 | IN THE NEWS
“This agreement has the potential to liberalise tobacco, alcohol and increase access to cheap processed foods. Elected governments will have their hands tied if they try and introduce policies to protect their people’s health’, Patricia Morton from...
Jul 15, 2010 | IN THE NEWS
A firm belief in community is helping medical experts in Timor-Leste develop strategies for fighting a chronic shortage of healthcare professions.’The healthcare system is still grossly under-utilised. And where we really fall down is we’re not doing...
Jul 2, 2010 | IN THE NEWS
The PACER plus free trade agreement is being strongly supported by the two biggest political players in the region, Australia and New Zealand.This week, Samoa’s Deputy Prime Minister, Misa Telefoni Retzlaff, told Pacific Beat that his government support the...
