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‘We will not allow others to determine our fate’: Pacific nations dial up pressure on Australia’s fossil fuel exports

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par Liam Moore, Lecturer in International Politics and Policy, James Cook University

Tuvalu’s Prime Minister Feleti Teo took to a stage in Apia, Samoa, on Thursday morning to say something pointed. Planned fossil fuel expansions in nations such as Australia represented, for his nation, a “death sentence”. The phrase “death sentence”, Teo said, had not been chosen lightly. He followed up with this: “We will not sit quietly and allow others to determine our fate.”

Teo chose the moment for this broadside well – on…

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