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23 January 2024

Pacific Predictions: A look ahead at 2024

by Tess Newton Cain

Pacific Elections Office voter registration

10 January 2022

Pacific predictions: 2022

by Tess Newton Cain

Dame Meg Taylor

14 January 2021

Pacific predictions: 2021

by Tess Newton Cain

14 January 2020

Pacific predictions: 2020

by Tess Newton Cain

Voting for the FSM congressional election, at the University of Guam Calvo Field House in 2017 (Credit: Tihu Lujan/The Guam Daily Post)

7 January 2019

Pacific predictions: 2019

by Tess Newton Cain

'Akilisi Phovia, Prime Minister of Tonga (ITU Pictures/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

12 January 2018

Pacific predictions: what to expect in 2018

by Tess Newton Cain

A voter marks her ballot during the 2012 elections in the PNG highlands (Flickr/Commonwealth Secretariat/Treva Braun CC BY NC ND 2.0)

11 January 2017

Pacific predictions: what will 2017 hold for the Pacific?

by Tess Newton Cain

Kava preparation, SW Bay, Malekula (Flickr/Austronesian Expeditions)

6 January 2016

Pacific predictions: 2016

by Tess Newton Cain

6 January 2015

Pacific predictions: 2015

by Tess Newton Cain

10 January 2014

2014 in the Pacific: a year of elections

by Tess Newton Cain

15 January 2013

Pacific predictions 2013: Fiji falters, and more

by Tess Newton Cain

16 January 2012

Pacific predictions: some thoughts on what 2012 might hold for our part of the world

by Tess Newton Cain

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