By Angelina Lanna Chams UN News- https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/09/1165767 Out of the 69 countries that criminalise same-sex sexual activity, six are located in Oceania. While these six countries vary in how and what they criminalise, the recent enforcement of anti-sodomy laws in Papua New Guinea has raised renewed questions about whether these laws are being meaningfully challenged today. With a maximum punishment of 14 years’ imprisonment, Section 210 of the Criminal Cod

by Thomas Landerretche Photo- from Rawlinna Station/ Facebook- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-23/sale-of-australias-largest-sheep-station-at-rawlinna-station/105807106 With the first British fleets arriving in Terra Australis carrying convicts, the process of colonization and settlement by the British Empire occurred. Despite initial resistance against the colonists, most notably the one led by Aboriginal warrior Pemulwuy, the epidemics, added with the mass killings of t

By Margherita Greco Tuvalu’s Minister for Justice, Communication & Foreign Affairs Simon Kofe gives a COP26 statement while standing in the ocean in Funafuti, Tuvalu November 5, 2021. (Tuvalu Foreign Ministry | via Reuters) When tides rise high enough to swallow an entire nation, does that nation cease to exist? For Tuvalu, a Polynesian nation of nine coral atolls covering just 10 square miles, this is no longer a hypothetical or philosophical question — it has become a threa