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PNG minister says $600m NRL deal ‘nothing to do with China’
PNG’s foreign minister said its government had set aside more than $38 million to begin building facilities and a deal could be announced as early as next week.
- by Chris Barrett
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Indigenous culture
Why are thousands of people marching for Maori rights?
Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Wellington for the final stretch of a week-long protest that has spanned the length of the country. Here is why.
- by Charlotte Graham-McLay
World leaders issue warning to Trump on trade, but not by name
The APEC summit has made a stand against new barriers, in a signal to the US president-elect to rethink his tariffs plan.
- by David Crowe
Haka interrupts NZ parliament, MPs kicked out, as treaty bill arrives
Tempers flared in New Zealand’s parliament during an extraordinary debate on the Treaty Principles Bill.
‘We’re not helping them’: Inside the town of New Zealand’s fugitive father
The parents of Tom Phillips, who vanished with his children three years ago, say they are not aiding their son as he evades police.
NZ government introduces bill to reinterpret the Treaty of Waitangi
The 1840 agreement between indigenous Māori and the British Crown is considered the nation’s founding document.
- by Tracy Withers
King and Queen gifted a whole pig on state visit to Samoa
Charles and Camilla were offered gifts including hand-woven fabric and a whole pig, wrapped and presented on a pallet carried by four chiefs in a spectacular welcome ceremony.
- by Hannah Furness
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China relations
New Zealand’s biggest pivot since the 1980s
A Royal New Zealand Navy transit through the Taiwan Strait underscores a big shift in foreign policy under Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.
- by The Economist
Opinion
King Charles III
The King loves Australia but his next stop’s the big one (and China will be watching)
In Samoa, assembled nations will decide the Commonwealth’s next secretary-general. It will be one of three Africans whose countries are beneficiaries of China’s largesse
- by George Brandis
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Pacific diplomacy
Australia’s arm-wrestle with China is all over the billboards
Anyone who doubts Australia and China are in what Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong called a “permanent contest” in the Pacific needs to think again.
- by Richard McGregor