Dinah Lewis Boucher

Today, in the Queensland Museum, some 880 ancestral remains of both Indigenous Australian and Pacific heritage are held. But the Queensland Museum is not alone. Ancestral remains are held across Australian museums and even universities, numbering in the thousands.

The craft of weaving bilums is a key part of Papua New Guinean tradition, and it’s also at the heart of a new story celebrating and sharing PNG culture with a new generation of children.

Samoa has emerged as the only nation to defeat Australia in the Pacific Games boxing finals on Friday after Ato Plodzicki-Faoagali won the men’s 92kg division.

Just two weeks ago, most of Kiribati’s rugby sevens team had never set foot on a plane, let alone played in an international competition — now, they’ve competed in the Oceania Championship and are ready to take on Fiji in the Pacific Games.

Samoa was one of the biggest movers on the 2023 Pacific Games Medal tally after the end of competition on Tuesday in Honiara, and swimmer Kokoro Frost, who won silver, says they have a strong team.

The fallout from the cyber attack on non-bank lender Latitude Financial, which exposed the details of current and former customers, is continuing.