Pacific Beat

Dec 12 2024 25 ep. 20 mins 825
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Focusing on the Pacific region, the program brings you interviews with leaders, newsmakers, and people who make the Pacific beat.

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Athletes from Nauru and Tahiti pay the price for "inadvertent doping" at the 2023 Pacific Games in Solomon Islands

Dec 12 2024 8 mins  
Two Pacific athletes face three years in the sporting wilderness after failing dope tests during the Honiara Pacific Games. The Games Council accepted that neither athlete was guilty of cheating deliberately, none the less they were in clear breach of the rules.

October launch planned for OFC Pro-League, with the big kick off to follow in January 2026, as soccer in the Pacific prepares to go professional.

Dec 12 2024 6 mins  
The first professional soccer league in the Pacific is set to kick off in January 2026, with as many as ten clubs in the inaugural competition, and plans to include teams from Australia and Hawaii.

PNG's NRL team will get less than half the $600 million the Australian Government has pledged to spend in the Pacific, with $60 million going to the NRL, and $250 million to be spent on rugby league development in other island countriies

Dec 12 2024 15 mins  
It's being described as a landmark world first sports diplomacy deal, now the Australian Rugby League Commission has sealed an agreement with the Australian Government to fund a 10-year Pacific Rugby League Partnership.

Sealing the deal for PNG to enter a team in the NRL - best thing we've done for Papua New Guinea since supporting independence nearly 50 years ago says Minister Conroy

Dec 12 2024 46 mins  
The dream is set to become a reality as the Australian Government agrees to underwrite an NRL team from PNG, with their debut season set for 2028

Two wins out of two for host country Solomon Islands at the MSG Prime Ministers' Cup, but head coach wants to see greater consistency in his team's performance

Dec 12 2024 8 mins  
"Starting again" after an early exit from World Cup qualifying, Solomon Islands' coach Josh Smith urges his players to generate more energy and strive to be consistent.

PNG NRL team announcement expected today

Dec 11 2024 9 mins  
After months of speculation, Papua New Guinea is just hours away from having its own NRL rugby league team.

PNG NRL team announcement expected today

Dec 11 2024 48 mins  
Tune in each morning and afternoon to keep-up-to-date on the happenings in the Pacific.

Vote of No Confidence to take place in Solomon Islands tomorrow

Dec 11 2024 5 mins  
As political turmoil continues to simmer across the region in Solomon Islands with a vote of no confidence to be debated tomorrow.

Why is the Pacific having so many votes of no confidence?

Dec 11 2024 6 mins  
It's been a time of political turbulence in the Pacific region with votes of no confidences being held in parliaments across a number of Pacific Island nations.

Over 200,000 Fijians living in squatters as calls for action grow

Dec 10 2024 45 mins  
Fiji may be among the more developed of Pacific economies, but recent reports says around 20 per cent of its population are living in squatter settlements.