Radio Australia - Pacific Beat
Focusing on the Pacific region, the program brings you interviews with leaders, newsmakers, and people who make the Pacific beat.
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Stories
Taskforce Sweep's offices in Port Moresby ransacked
It looks like Papua New Guinea's anti-corruption taskforce has struck a raw nerve with its work.
Fiji's NFP to decide its fate at the weekend
Fiji's National Federation Party will decide its fate this weekend.
Pacific escapes worst cuts at UNDP but poverty work suffers
The head of the United Nations Development program, Helen Clark, says funding shortfalls at the crucial UN development body are a serious concern.
Allegations of a company rorting Cook Islands' import duty
An article in a New Zealand magazine alleges a company in the Cook Islands was able to import Coca-Cola at a reduced level of import duty since the 1980s.
A call to eliminate tropical diseases
A new health report says thousands of people in Australia and the Pacific are infected with what are defined as Neglected Tropical Diseases or NTDs.
Talks on new ways for Australia to relate to the Pacific countries
A meeting of specialists on the Pacific is underway in Australia's capital Canberra debating whether Australia's government should change the way it relates to its neighbours.
Damning UN report on PNG detention centre
The Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea has come under fire in a report from the United Nations Refugee Agency.
France still in denial over construction on Muroroa atoll
The French government was due to give its side of the story over the weekend on claims that construction work has begun on Murorora atoll, the former French nuclear test site in the Pacific.
"Don't delay" call for PNG seabed mining project
A former planning minister is calling on the PNG government not to delay the country's first under-sea mining project "unncessarily", as he says it will bring huge community benefits.
World Seven series throws up more surprises
After four rounds of the IRB World Sevens Series, we have our fourth different winner.
Vanuatu make early running in EAP Twenty20 tournament
After a series of warm up matches, the action has begun in earnest at the East Asia Pacific Twenty20 cricket championship in New Zealand.
Changing times in the mobile labour market
Australia and New Zealand's seasonal worker schemes have had much said and written about them in recent years.
Round-up of news from Cook Islands
In Cook Islands, there are growing calls for a Royal Commission.
Focus on Marshall Islands
Commercial fishing and a failure to spend nearly half a million dollars in US grants are two of the major news topics in the Marshall Islands at the moment.
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