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With independence off the table for now, what's next for New Caledonia's push for self-determination?

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s visit to New Caledonia a few weeks ago made few headlines. In fact, it barely made the news.

The Conversation

Australia and France take part in huge military exercise after tense couple of years

For the past fortnight, Australia has taken part in an emergency training drill led by the French military in New Caledonia, as the two countries try to put the cancelled submarine deal behind them.

ABC News

String of shark attacks in Nouméa, New Caledonia forces authorities to close some beaches for a year

After a string of shark attacks, New Caledonia's government closed Nouméa's beaches for a year. But locals say it has gone too far.

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8,400 eggs and a 3.5-metre frying pan: New Caledonia bonds over giant omelette

Forty-year-old festival sees chefs use power tools to mix the eggs before a fork lift hoists the enormous frying pan into place

The Guardian - AU

In New Caledonia, Australia urges Pacific island unity amid China, U.S. competition

Australia's foreign minister urged Pacific island countries on Thursday to stay united in the face of great power competition as she visited New Caledonia, where the president raised concerns about Australia's AUKUS nuclear submarine programme.

Reuters

Nickel, nuclear subs on latest Pacific blitz agenda

Foreign Minister Penny Wong is in New Caledonia and will head to Tuvalu as she works to allay concerns about Australia's acquisition of nuclear-powered subs.

AAP

Pacific blitz continues with New Caledonia, Tuvalu trip

All Pacific Islands Forum nations will have received Australia's top diplomat by the end of the week with Penny Wong set to visit New Caledonia and Tuvalu.

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Why are talks between Paris and New Caledonia’s rival groups deadlocked?

The French government is trying to renew dialogue between New Caledonia’s pro and anti-independence groups. Negotiations broke down after a third referendum in 2021 rejected full sovereignty for the Pacific Ocean island group.

Radio France Internationale

New Caledonian representatives in Paris to discuss territory's future

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne is meeting Tuesday with pro- and anti-independence factions from New Caledonia as part of a continued attempt to find an institutional future for the territory that has voted three times against independence.

Radio France Internationale

Paris talks on New Caledonia's future will 'avoid return to violence'

Supporters and opponents of independence in New Caledonia – whose future status must be negotiated with the French government – are expected to travel to Paris next month for talks.

Radio France Internationale

French minister back in New Caledonia to work on territory's future status

France's Interior and Overseas Minister, Gerald Darmanin, has returned to New Caledonia to resume talks on the Pacific territory's future status after it voted to remain French in a third and final referendum at the end of 2021. However, the pro-independence FLNKS movement refuses to recognise the result.

Radio France Internationale

Family of Sydney man killed in New Caledonia shark attack remember ‘beloved’ husband and father

Chris Davis died after being bitten multiple times by a shark while swimming at Chateau Royal beach south of Nouméa

The Guardian - AU

Family mourns shark attack victim from Sydney, Chris Davis, as a 'beloved' father, husband

A Sydney tourist who died after being attacked by a shark at a busy beach on the French Pacific island of New Caledonia was a "beloved" father and husband.

ABC News

Horrific moment shark mauls tourist to death just weeks after similar attack

The Australian tourist, 59, who was reportedly travelling alone, was swimming near a pontoon around 500ft off Chateau-Royal beach, in Noumea, the capital of New Caledonia - a French Pacific island territory around 750miles east of Australia

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Evening Standard

Shark kills Australian tourist at crowded beach in New Caledonia

The man was swimming close to a pontoon around 150m from the beach in the capital Noumea when he was attacked

The Independent UK

Shark kills 59-year-old Australian tourist off crowded beach in New Caledonia

‘There was blood everywhere, we could see it from the beach’

The New Daily

Australian tourist dies in shark attack at crowded Noumea beach

An Australian man has died in a shark attack in front of onlookers at a crowded beach in New Caledonia.

Radio France Internationale

France scraps 2023 referendum on New Caledonia's legal status

A referendum to determine the legal status of New Caledonia will not be held in mid-2023 as planned, France’s Overseas Territories Minister announced on Monday.

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Radio France Internationale

Solomon Islands PM says ban on foreign navy ships to be lifted "soon"

A snap ban on foreign military vessels docking in Solomon Islands is poised to be lifted, its leader told parliament Monday. The controversial issue could see the South Pacific nation become a pawn in a strategic tug-of-war between China and the United States. France, which shares a maritime border between…

Reuters

New Caledonia says it won't be 'trojan horse' for big powers in the Pacific

The pro-independence president of New Caledonia, a French overseas territory, said he didn't want New Caledonia to be used as a "trojan horse" in the Pacific islands, amid global power jostling for influence in the region.

Radio France Internationale

Pacific Islands Forum overshadowed by growing concerns about China's influence in the region

US-China rivalry and an inter-island rift overshadowed the start of a landmark Pacific summit Tuesday, hampering efforts to focus world attention on the islands' dire climate crisis.

ABC News

French court rejects request to annul New Caledonia's referendum result

Only 44 per cent of eligible voters turned out for the third and maybe final independence referendum, so what did the court in France have to say and why did so few people participate?

Radio France Internationale

French court upholds New Calendonia's rejection of independence result

A legal challenge that sought to annul the result of last December’s referendum on New Caledonia’s independence from France has failed. Meanwhile, a fact-finding mission will travel to the French colony in the South Pacific later this month for talks on its institutional future.

Radio France Internationale

French to send fact finding mission to New Caledonia to examine possible future

The Law Commission of the French Senate has announced that a fact-finding mission will travel to New Caledonia, a French colony in the South Pacific, to investigate the future institutional role of the island and its relationship with France and other French overseas territories.

Radio France Internationale

China expands military might as far as French borders with Solomon Islands pact

China has signed a security agreement with the Solomon Islands, a tiny state in the Pacific Ocean. The US and Australia are furious and worry that Beijing might want to expand its naval operations. The agreement also means that China's sphere of influence now extends to French territory as the…

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