Category: Oceania
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Australian police say the deliberate ramming of independent MP Helen Haines’s vehicle was an isolated incident. That phrase is a specific operational judgement rather than a reassurance, and it is worth knowing what it does and does not claim.
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Australia will require platforms to notify users and offer them a choice over their default feed. It sounds procedural. Defaults are among the most powerful levers in policy design, and this one regulates the ranking mechanism rather than the speech.
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Cook Islanders elect all 24 seats of Parliament amid a cost-of-living crisis and argument over a partnership agreement with China. Why tiny constituencies change how politics works, what free association actually means, and what voters are deciding.
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Kiribati, Palau and Papua New Guinea have detained four Chinese and Indonesian vessels in a coordinated Pacific enforcement operation. Why small island states police an area the size of a continent, what “illegal fishing” actually covers, and why licence fees are national budgets.
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South Australia has too many koalas, and researchers warn the forests cannot feed them. How a threatened species becomes overabundant, why leaving it alone means starvation, and what each of the four available options actually costs.
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Hundreds of migrants tried to cross from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta this weekend. Moroccan authorities fended them off this time — raising the same question as before about how much these events are decided at the fence.
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Nauru is now the Republic of Naoero, matching the national language. Where the island is, and why countries from Türkiye to Eswatini have changed their official names.