Australian world music star Mitch Tambo and his wife Voice of Lele have released a duet and their take on the classic hit My Island Home.

The PNG PM who tried to crush the Bougainville rebellion with foreign mercenaries then became an unlikely ally for ...

Originally published as My Travel CV: I’ve lived all over, this Aussie spot is my No.1 ...

Vanuatu's parliament has elected Jotham Napat as the Pacific nation's new prime minister after his Leaders Party won the ...

The phosphate industry was owned and operated by the British, Australian and New Zealand ... Polynesian and Melanesian descent. While the native language is Nauruan, English is widely spoken.

It was from the Melanesian islands that sailors set out to Polynesia, with minimal contact with people from mainland Australia as there is no evidence of genetic mixing. The settlers reached the ...

Cross-cultural study of the forms and functions of supernatural beliefs and associated rituals in various societies of Africa, Asia, aboriginal Australia ... movements throughout the world -- from ...

The US aid freeze won’t break the Pacific, but it will create unnecessary disruptions. For Southeast Asia, the consequences ...

Australia will provide a package of support to grow the size ... constituting a strengthened RSIPF first, support from Melanesian countries second, and from members of the Pacific Islands Forum third.

The idea behind Australia in 100 Words is a smart one ... which spread northwards and even fed into Melanesian Pidgin. Over the course of time pidgin expanded from being the lingo of functional ...

Some Melanesians went of their own free will ... In the meantime, the newly-created Australian federal government had decided that the Kanakas should all be sent back to their home islands by 1906 as ...