Pacific Beat, ABC, By Pacific affairs reporter Liam Fox and staff Updated 27 Jun 2015, 4:11pm A coalition of West Papuan organisations has been accepted into a regional grouping of Melanesian countries but denied full membership. The United Liberation Movement for…
By Stefan Armbruster, SBS Australia Australia’s nearest Pacific neighbours have taken the lead in trying to broker a peaceful future for Indonesia’s contested West Papuan provinces. Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and New Caledonia’s FLNKS took the step at…
PACIFIC BEAT BY PACIFIC AFFAIRS REPORTER LIAM FOX John Momis has been re-elected president of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, gaining around half of the votes. He received 51,382 votes after leading the race since the start of week-long counting while his…