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Vanuatu Indigenous leaders raise concerns over plans to build resort for cruise tourists

Exclusive: Environmental impact assessments are ‘incomplete’, say leaders, and private beach club could harm fragile ecosystems

The Guardian - AU · Mar 31

Pacific journalist doyen Dan McGarry dies aged 62

Former Vanuatu Daily Post editor Dan McGarry has died after falling ill on a reporting trip to Papua New Guinea last month.

AAP · Mar 26

The sea is higher than we thought putting millions more are at risk of extreme flooding

A new study highlights a 'methodological blind spot' in the way sea level rise is measured.

Euronews · Mar 6

Vanuatu open to signing deal with Australia but will not be subject to ‘bullying’ from larger countries

Country moves to deepen policing ties with China as Australia continues negotiations on Nakamal agreement, which was not signed last month as hoped

The Guardian - AU · Oct 2, 2025

All alone against China: warning for PM on Pacific

Australia is caught between a disinterested White House and an increasingly assertive Beijing, experts warn, as Anthony Albanese prepares to meet Donald Trump.

AAP · Sep 26, 2025

Australia cops it over Vanuatu's police deal with China

Vanuatu has issued a stinging clapback against Australia after a senior minister tried to play down concerns over the Pacific nation signing a pact with China.

AAP · Sep 26, 2025

Vanuatu working toward UN vote aimed at fighting fossil-fuel industry influence

Ralph Regenvanu, minister of climate change for the Pacific island nation, says step taken on ‘behalf of everybody’

The Guardian - US · Sep 24, 2025

Vanuatu flags China policing deal after Australia snub

A Pacific island nation has revealed it wants to formalise a policing deal with China after a security pact with Australia was scuppered at the last minute.

AAP · Sep 23, 2025

Pacific deal delays could catch out Albanese in the US

The failure to seal two regional deals could follow Prime Minister Anthony Albanese across the Pacific to a meeting with US President Donald Trump.

AAP · Sep 17, 2025

Australia’s failure of diplomacy in PNG shows we can’t – and won’t – understand our Pacific neighbours

Our foreign policy mindset is a function of our dependence on America and fear of China, while we talk down to our ‘Pacific family’ and remain deaf to their global warming concerns

The Guardian - AU · Sep 17, 2025