2010 in Oceania

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Chronology of Oceania : The thematic eventsof 2010 in Oceania.

Policy

Elections

  • February 27 : Nauruan constitutional referendum in Nauru. The proposed amendments (which would allow the election of the President of the Republic at the direct vote, rather than indirect) were rejected by 67% of the expressed votes.[1]
  • April 24 : Nauruan parliamentary election in Nauru. It was anticipated elections, to 'unblock' a Parliament where the presidential government and the opposition each benefited of nine deputies out of eighteen. The eighteen outgoing deputies were however renewed, keeping the country in a political doubt state.[2]
  • August 4 : Parliamentary elections in the Solomon Islands.
  • August 21 : Parliamentary elections in Australia. The prime minister Julia Gillard, replacing Kevin Rudd at the head of the country following an inner sling in the Labour party, aimed to legitimate her status obtaining a mandate from the citizens, via anticipated elections. The Labours got 72 seats out of 150 at the House of Representatives, as much as the liberal opposition, but could form a government with the support of a green deputy and of three unlabeled deputies.[3]
  • Septembre 16 : Parliamentary elections in the Tuvalu.
  • 25 novembre : Parliamentary elections in the Tonga. The citizens were led, for the first time, to elect a majority of the deputies. Up to now, the 'People's Representatives' formed a minority at the Parliament, alongside Nobility' Representatives and members of the executive appointed by the king and sat at the Parliament.[4]

Governments

Environment

Death

  • March : Bernard Narokobi, born in 1937, Papua New Guinean politician, diplomat and philosopher.
  • December 4 : Jacques Lafleur, born on the 20 novembre 1932, died on the Gold Coast (Queensland, Australia), New Caledonian politician, old deputy at the French National Assembly (1978-2004), old president of the Assembly of the South Province (1989-2004), historic leader of the anti-independence camp (1977-2004), signatory of the Matignon Agreements in 1988 and of the Nouméa Accord in 1998.[5]

Notes and references

  1. ^ (in English) Résultats du référendum, gouvernement de Nauru
  2. ^ (in English) "Nauru election returns previous parliament unchanged" Archived 2012-03-10 at the Wayback Machine, Radio New Zealand International, 26 avril 2010
  3. ^ (in English) "Labor clings to power", Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 8 septembre 2010
  4. ^ (in English) "Tonga’s pro-democracy movement hails assembly reform", Radio New Zealand International, 21 avril 2010
  5. ^ « La Calédonie enterre Jacques Lafleur », Les Nouvelles calédoniennes, 11 décembre 2010