Pasifika Sipoti in brief for 13 October

Manu Samoa team bows in prayer after their 31-12 loss to Chile on Sunday morning. Photo: Supplied/Manu Samoa Rugby Manu Samoa has missed out on playing Italy in a rugby international clash on 22 November. The Samoans were originally billed to meet...

Placing priority on diversification

An economy is a continuum. One finance minister who manages an economy for ten continuous years hands either a jewel or a disaster to his replacement. What has former finance minister Colm Imbert handed his successor Davendranath Tancoo? Jewel or...

Fiona Falkiner and wife Hayley Willis announce split

Fiona Falkiner, model and former host of The Biggest Loser Australia, has announced she's separated from her wife, sports presenter Hayley Willis. Falkiner, 42, shared the news in a statement on her Instagram stories over the weekend. "Hayley and...

Hunt for 'aggressive, dangerous men' who slipped Sydney police operation

A police operation involving tactical officers and hostage negotiators was sparked by a report of an armed group entering a home in Sydney's south-west. The operation began on Friday morning after officers from the Bankstown Area Command and...

Teenage girl dies in crash involving allegedly stolen car

A 16-year-old girl has died in a crash involving an allegedly stolen car in Wodonga, as police investigate two deadly collisions in Victoria's north in the space of 12 hours. The Wodonga teenager was a passenger in a Nissan being driven by another...

Two face court over alleged murder of 18yo in Victoria's east

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains images and names of people who have died. Two teenagers have faced court charged with murder after a stabbing incident in Victoria’s east left one man dead and...

Family says Indigenous man who died in custody was deprived human rights

The family of an Indigenous man who died in prison says an apology from Corrective Services NSW has come "too little, too late". WARNING: This article contains the names and images of First Nations people who have died. It also includes...

Truck driver who hit school bus knew he had faulty brakes, court told

A mother of a high school student injured in a bus crash at Bacchus Marsh, north-west of Melbourne, three years ago had described the chaos that unfolded at the scene as "like a horror movie". The woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons,...

Live: First awards handed out at Dally M as Rooster wins Try of the Year

3m agoWed 1 Oct 2025 at 10:03am The Dally M Awards ceremony has begun We are underway with the ceremony. Former player Braith Anasta has come up to address those in attendance. 5m agoWed 1 Oct 2025 at 10:01am Tedesco is 'quite nervous' ahead of...

Email with smiling workers on wrecking balls outrages caravan evictees

A leaked email from a northern New South Wales council has caused outrage among a group of caravan owners facing eviction from four council-run parks. The Clarence Valley Council internal email included an AI-generated illustration of a series of...

Pacific Islands News Roundup – October 3 – 9, 2025

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How airport schooner helped police capture Sydney's 'Night Stalker'

A former funeral director and hospital wardsman has admitted to a series of sexual attacks on women in Sydney in the early 90s, after a familial DNA link led to his arrest more than three decades on. Warning: This story contains details of graphic...

Decline of paramedic 'lifers' as job retention falls to 10-year low

Peter Maxwell never anticipated he would spend his entire professional working life as an ambo. "When I left school I didn't have a clue what I wanted to do," Mr Maxwell said. "But doing the science stuff and interacting with people turned out to...

Student compares his autism to 'limited edition Lego' in viral speech

For Sydney mother Lara Bird, nothing makes her prouder than to see her son speak of his autism as akin to being a "limited edition Lego set". Twelve-year-old Leo is the talk of his community thanks to a speech he gave at his school's 2025 young...

Lawyer for Neo-Nazi leader shared racist, antisemitic posts on social media

The lawyer for the leader of the National Socialist Network (NSN) shared racist and antisemitic material from the Neo-Nazi group on social media and described Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf as a "brilliant book" to his followers. Warning: This story...

Life Sciences Cloud Content Migration: Separating Fact from Fiction

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$30M for MVA to Keep Failing Us, While Our People Suffer and Go Hungry

By Mabel Doge Luhan for Mabel’s Table, Kandit News & Views It was barely more than a century ago when I still held out hope for curing my primary medical complaint. No, not the posterior carbuncle, nor the seasonal rickets. I’m talking about my...

The European Union and the Pacific Community boost border security in Marshall Islands with advanced X-Ray technology

Photo: European Union Ambassador Barbara Plinkert and Marshall Islands Minister Anthony Muller, key handover of the Airport X-ray machine The Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) has received a state-of-the-art X-ray machine to reinforce border...

ASU SolarSPELL Initiative named a TIME 2025 'best invention'

By Mary Beth Faller, ASU News Newswise — The ASU SolarSPELL Initiative, which started as a student engineering assignment at Arizona State University and grew into a global humanitarian project that provides solar-powered library devices, has been...

ASU SolarSPELL Initiative named a TIME 'best invention'

The ASU SolarSPELL Initiative, which started as a student engineering assignment at Arizona State University and grew into a global humanitarian project that provides solar-powered library devices, has been named one of TIME's 2025 Best...