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These are the Bougainville Government Land Bill, Customary Land Bill, Land Registers Bill 2024, and the Planning and Development Bill.

But the Employment Ministry reaffirmed its commitment to fostering inclusive dialogue during the review of the Employment Relations Act (ERA) 2007.

On Friday, New Zealand plays Tahiti, and on Saturday, Vanuatu takes on Samoa.

President Ratu Wiliame Katonivere said the Fiji Day provides the opportunity for all Fijians to to come together as one.

A round-up ofnews in brief from around the region, including Pacific island nations continuing to call for a mandatory universal levy on carbon emissions from shipping.

Fiji's Prime Minister has dismissed criticism regarding MPs enriching themselves following the government's tender for high-end laptops and mobile phones for legislators.

The rugby league tournament begins on 18 October.

But Labour leader and former prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry said the government was yet to release 50 percent of the free education grant for Term 2.

A group of officers, backed by police, stormed the correction services headquarters on Saturday, and tried to change the locks, but staff inside the complex had their own police backup.

OFC qualifier matches will be played in Fiji and Vanuatu starting on Thursday. Audio

A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including French Polynesian delegations in New York this week to attend the United Nation's decolonisation meetings.

Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu made comments in response to an MP, who is a descendant of blackbirded Pacific Islanders, which rights groups say were "racially charged" and "evil".

The PNG government says the National Media Development Policy aims to promote, uphold and support principles of freedom of expression and information in the country.

Outspoken former Malaita province premier Daniel Suidani said: "I am going to fight the charges".

The Vanuatu Supreme Court has approved the implementation of the Deed of Compromise which Ernst & Young Australia said is a positive outcome for the airline and its creditors.

Fijian peacekeepers in the Middle East are "well, safe and in high morale" amid escalated tensions in the region, the country's acting home affairs minister says.

The Prime Minister said when PNG turns 70 in 2045 it needs to have broken free of the constraints of being a low-income nation to a high-income economy.

Navunikabi villagers in Namosi on the main island of Viti Levu are protesting Sitiveni Rabuka government's proposal to construct a hydro dam.

Former New Zealand Governor General Sir Jerry Mateparae is in Port Moresby this week to meet with the Papua New Guinea Prime Minister and the Bougainville President.

"We sustainably manage our forests, land and sea, because our livelihood depends on them," Prime Minister James Marape told world leaders in New York less than a week ago.

Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele said the opening of the embassy "has built a bridge of friendship that shortens the distance between our two countries".

Paific Island leaders have wrapped up the 79th Session of the UNGA reinforcing their message to global leaders that the world needs to act urgently to combat the climate crisis.

Former secretary general to parliament, Mary Chapman, who spent over 4 decades in the civil service wants "somebody to put their foot down" on MPs behaviour.

Mase Mahonri Schwalger has been charged with multiple serious offences, including unlawful sexual connection, attempted sexual violation, sexual conduct with a person under 16.

George Maggi is denying that the former deputy prime minister, jailed in March for fraud, is receiving special treatment after being hired by family on a prison work scheme.