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Bougainville's President says he wants the region to have self-government in place by next year.

More new Covid cases recorded in PNG, five months without a government in New Caledonia, and Gaston Flosse mounts a comeback in French Polynesia,

Mexico's ruling leftist party is leading in an election to pick a new lower house of Congress, early results show, though overall support between its electoral alliance and the main opposition…

The announcement of New Caledonia's latest referendum on possible independence is already drawing the ire of many, less than a day after it was announced.

A petition asking the NZ government to apologise for the Dawn Raids closes soon, Vanuatu's new criminal defamation law enters into force, and Guam calls for US recognition of Samoa's newly elected…

New Caledonia will hold another independence referendum in December, according to reports in French media.

French-sponsored talks on New Caledonia's future continue in Paris this week as the 1998 Noumea Accord will expire next year.

A youth-led campaign to lower the voting age to 16 will take its case to the Court of Appeal in an effort to push through the change before next year's local body elections.

A high-level New Caledonian delegation has flown to Paris at the invitation of the French prime minister Jean Castex as the third and last independence referendum looms under the terms of the Noumea…

Act leader David Seymour is pushing for a four-year parliamentary term, with Select Committees controlled by the opposition

In his response, Beijen said he "respect your views and praise the passion shown by those who participated in the hīkoi yesterday".

Māori wards will be adopted in Rotorua in time for the next local election.

Pro-Māori ward activists took their campaign to South Wairarapa District Council offices after a hīkoi through Martinborough today. Sue Teodoro and Marcus Anselm report.

Masterton councillors will vote tomorrow on creating Māori wards in time for the 2022 local elections.

Bougainville's President Ishmael Toroama has called for the autonomous Papua New Guinea region to be given independence by 2025.

Tongan parliament live broadcast censored; Papua movement donates to Melanesian independence group, schools in Wallis and Futuna have reopened for the most, and more.

New Caledonian politicians have begun commenting on an embargoed French government paper about the implications of the next independence referendum.

Delegations from the governments of Bougainville and Papua New Guinea have arrived in PNG's East New Britain province for talks.