Oceania Tonga The country is considering a mandatory death sentence for criminals trafficking 5 kilograms or more of a class A drug or who repeatedly procure and use children in drug offences
Oceania Papua New Guinea Australian Air Force No 35 Squadron has begun a twin squadron agreement with Papua New Guinea's Air Training Wing, part of the international exchange between the two countries
Oceania Palau Ilana Seid, founder and CEO at Sunday Morning, has been appointed the country's permanent representative to the United Nations for her expertise in investment banking
Oceania Australia Substantial compensation will be paid to the survivors of the indigenous 'stolen generation', children who were forcibly removed from their families in 1900; it is one of the measures designed to reduce the gap in this category
Oceania Samoa The 'E le Sauā le Alofa' (Love is not Violent) study, implemented by the Samoa Victim Support Group, aims to develop new ways to stop violence against women and girls using home-based methods, uniting village leaders and women in a common cause
Oceania Kiribati Piango, a key local NGO in the country, is working on capacity building, leadership development and effectiveness
Oceania Solomon Islands The Solomon Islands Football Federation has become the first governing body in the Pacific to receive a sports grant through the PacificAus Sports program, which seeks to support the women's football league ahead of 2023 Pacific Games
Oceania Micronesia Fiji's Prime Minister during his inaugural address as the new President of the Pacific Islands Forum offered an apology to Micronesian members for how the Forum rejected their candidate for Secretary-General
Oceania Marshall Islands The USA Department of Energy will have to address security failures in the management of nuclear waste in the country after the dome on Enewetak Atoll was used to store radioactive materials left over from nuclear weapons tests during the 40s and 50s
Oceania Tuvalu The IMF Executive Board concluded its 2021 Article IV consultation with the country: the containment measures implemented by the authorities at the start of the pandemic helped keep the country free of Covid, although they took a toll on economic activity
Oceania Papua New Guinea Self-sufficiency in sugar has been reached, with Ramu Sugar - the country's only sugar and ethanol producer and the largest producer of beef cattle - contributing 49% to the country's economy
Oceania Fiji The national rugby team won its second consecutive Olympic gold medal after the country was isolated for months and athletes travelled 7.000 km on a cargo ship carrying frozen fish to get to Tokyo
Oceania Australia With a stunning series of world and Olympic records, specially in swimming, the country successfully ends these Games with the highest number of medals in relation to population number