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Today on Pacific Waves
Leading French politicians welcomed New Caledonia referendum result despite Kanak boycott.
Aotearoa's Pacific music community celebrated another year of excellence with an awards ceremony hosted online.
The Norfolk Island administrator is at loggerheads with the island's Council of Elders over access to an historic site.
New Caledonian authorities are preparing for Sunday's third and final independence referendum after rejected pleas by the pro-independence parties to postpone it to next year because of the pandemic.
France is proceeding with the vote despite pleas from the indigenous Kanaks and other countries in Melanesia for a postponement.
Pro-independence parties say they won't take part in the vote or recognise its result, as Walter Zweifel explains in this preview.
People prepare to casts their ballot for the referendum on independence at a polling station of the City Hall in Noumea, on the French South Pacific territory of New Caledonia on December 12, 2021. Photo: Theo Rouby / AFP
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